From unemployed to self-employed: Why the switch is more common than ever

When Mikala Mahoney was laid off from her marketing job last summer, first she was shocked. Then the anxiety flooded in. 

“I realized that over the past few years in my career I had created a false sense of steadiness,” she tells Fast Company. Friends had regularly told Mahoney she was fortunate to have landed a good, stable job as a marketing........

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