If this is something that you are interested in to put an end to your financial worries, get yourself registered with the Central Contractor Registry which is a federal clearing house for vendors and small businesses too. Also identify a product or service that you can supply to the government and which the government needs in order to get a contract.

You can win such billion dollar contracts and secure your career or business better even during this phase of recession.

My husband works at an auto supplier. He tells me what he’s hearing at the plant, I tell him what I’m reading in the business headlines. Between those sources of information, we can put a pretty good overall picture together.

I also pay attention what’s going on in my industry — good or bad — so if someone starts talking at the office about this or that trend or idea, I have the background.