Most doors will shut on you because you own or owned a business. Its alot of none sense within the hiring process and I am glad that I do not have to go through that. Companies want their employee to believe that everything revolves around them and you need them but within realty you are selling your labor to them and sacrificing a large portion of your life within a work place.
What is the price on your time and family? You make a lot of sacrifices for a company that will work you to death and adjust the schedule within a legal manner to avoid paying over time and not care about lay offs. You should save & invest your money so that you will not be a corporate slave forever.
If you do want to work for an employer then get a degree because they walk over the low income non degree workers. They constantly tell the low income workers that the economy is bad and its not within budget to obtain a raise. More for less mind set but you get what you pay for when they sell consumers items.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.