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Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways For Creating Work That You Love (Paperback) (平装)
by Barbara Winter
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"Making A Living Without A Job" will help any person who is seeking to become a self-bosser to uncover their own unique passion and turn it into both a livelihood and a life. |
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Connie Wehmeyer (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
I first encountered "Making a Living Without a Job:.." by Barbara Winter about 9 years ago. I had bought it for my husband, who was in between jobs, and ended up reading it myself. By the time I was done, I had determined to leave a 20 year career in computers and go to massage school. I now own my own health center in New York state.
One year I gave 10 of these books to people who were 'stuck' in their jobs/careers but who were afraid to change. As a result 14 people ended up changing their jobs/careers because the people to whom I gave the book also passed it on.
I find, as a massage therapist, that much of the stress people have is due to a poor fit in their career. What might have been right at one time in their life, no longer is good for them.
I recommend this book to someone at least once each week and have now decided to have it in stock.
I recently gave copies to two friends who might need to leave high executive positions in an international corporation.
Anyone at any level in any job can find the step-by-step analysis in this book the most helpful thing ever in helping them to find the job that will really be fulfilling for them!
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
If you use just one of the practical suggestions Barbara Winter mentions, this book will pay for itself many times over. After reading other career search titles, this book stands out for offering specific business types to focus on in your search and asking you solid self-evaluation questions to help you identify a living that best matches your personality. You'll also enjoy the examples of successful people who've taken the plunge before you and the bits of inspiration Barbara mixes in for good measure!
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Kimberly Blevins (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
The author has made a niche for herself in the self-employment arena by providing helpful encouragement and useful ideas to those who are in the early stages of exploring self-employment options and ideas. She overstates her role, however, on page 248 where she says, "Your future can be joyfully jobless, if that's your dream. Unlike me, you don't have to go down that path alone. All of us who are living that dream are here to cheer you on." I don't know why the author went down that path alone; even during the timeframe she apparently refers to (early- to mid- 70s) I found no shortage of helpful and encouraging information about self-employment and successfully implemented some of them. The author herself cites at least one reference that was very helpful to her at the time (SUPERGIRLS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN OUTRAGEOUS BUSINESS).
That notwithstanding, if you are exploring the idea of leaving your job and making a living some other way, most likely through self-bossing, then this book is worth your time, particularly if the prospect of making such a change in your life scares you. In fact, it is in regard to that almost inevitable fear that the author has done such a stellar job in establishing and selling herself as an expert coach.
Among the aspects of the book I found most useful were: the author's taxonomy of several types of businesses that one can develop and developing multiple profit centers, including gaining a new perspective on your current job as one of your profit centers.
While mail-order business is covered as an option, I found nothing in the book about doing business on the Internet. It is disappointing and disturbing that a book now in its 17th printing (since 1993) has not been updated to incorporate and present something about the most ground-shaking revolution ever to hit the arena of home-based self-employment. Neverthless, most if not all of what applies to mail order, applies at least as well to on-line selling, so there is some transferability in the information presented.
If you are not sure whether to leave your job and want to explore in some depth what your strengths and limitations are, this book will not get you very far: for that I heartily recommend the classic WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? by Nelson Bolles.
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Chanta Rose (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
I will be the first to admit that I am not a fan of "self help" books, seminars or TV shows. I find them pretentious and a huge waste of time.
BUT, this book is different. Aside from suggesting daily affirmations (which I do not do), everything else was just well written, good, down to earth advice.
Don't expect this book to tell you how to make money. Treat it more as your muse that will assist in you finding your way.
I read this book at a particularly low time in my life; fired from my job and cancer spreading through my lymph nodes and yet it still made me smile and actually encouraged me enough to make lists of the skills I have, etc so I could try to move on...and start living again.
Life is still hard, but I love to go back to this book for inspiration whenever I need it.
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Dawn Pennington (MSL quote) , USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
This book is amazing, and that's because this woman is amazing. The book has been around for years, but Barbara is still out there, traveling and promoting the joy she has derived in her life for working for her favorite person - herself.
I met her in Washington, D.C., at a seminar she gave, and in a desperate moment, I contacted her personally and she immediately gave me a wonderfully encouraging response. She practices what she preaches - she warns her audience that there are a lot of people out there who are altogether too happy to burst your bubble and try to convince you that it is your civic duty to work at a job or company you hate - and it's because people are jealous and maybe even terrified that you will succeed and leave them to be miserable the way you used to be.
Recently, I left a job and am freelancing. It's tough; there's just not enough work to cover my bills right now. But I am doing it on my own terms, and I would say that reading this book and talking with Barbara gave me the courage in myself to know that, if I want it badly enough, I can make it happen. She is full of ideas of what you can do and how you can use your strengths, and she's more than happy to give you her thoughts on untapped markets - because, let's face it, she knows that keeping her thoughts to herself won't make a difference in the world.
I recommend this book because of its content that never loses its timeliness. I urge you to find your dreams and run after them, and do it knowing that a truly amazing person helped to blaze the path for you. |
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K. Smith (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
I bought this book in 1998 - back when the economy was booming - and it is one of the few books that is as relevant today as it was then.
Yes, it's about being your own boss - but it's about living your life...doing things you enjoy doing and things you're good at and making a living at it.
As a person who has a business, this book is about getting started, about keeping yourself inspired and staying focused and passionate about what you do. It isn't, however, a bunch of navel gazing rhetoric, like some of the books in this genre. At the same time, the book requires some honest introspection, and talks about the things you may have to sacrifice in order to live a life away from the usual.
This book is wonderful. And I highly recommend it to anyone who a) wants to have her/his own business, or b) currently has a business and has lost the passion - it is a great kickstart.
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Garima Parakh (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
I read this book in one stretch. This book gave me the inspiration I needed in planning my own jobless living. After getting freed from the shackles of corporate America, when I tried to start something on my own, I experienced the same kind of enthusiasm and burst of ideas as described in this book. I have never felt so healthy and upbeat in my life. As a self-starter, I could relate to this book immediately. It gave me the reassurance that the idea of making a living without a "real job" is believable and true. This idea is complemented in the book, by the numerous references to now famous names like Body Shop, Weight Watchers, personalities like Oprah and Laura Ashley.
The author explains why many people think corporate America is the only way to earn a good living. But at the same time she provides many statistics to show that a large percentage of successful Americans are self-employed. Winter gives helpful ideas like creating multiple profit centers and the $100 method. This book is an easy read and freshens your mind. It stimulates you to think and act upon your childhood dreams.
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Peter Hupalo (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
If you want to chuck your job and you're looking for a good self-help book to help you become an entrepreneur, consider "Making A Living Without A Job: Winning Ways For Creating Work That You Love" by Barbara Winter.
Winter says people can be "joyfully jobless" by developing "multiple profit centers." Rather than depending upon a single source of income, Winters says people should diversify their sources of income. Winter likes the variety of doing different things.
In addition to being an author, Winter publishes a newsletter, gives speeches and seminars, and finds other creative ways to earn a living. Because she has an interest in tea, Winter earned money teaching people how to have afternoon tea parties.
Winter writes that many people find "producing a tea a mysterious process." (Don't you just put the little bags in a cup of water?). In addition to enjoying teaching tea, it gave Winter the opportunity to travel to England and deduct travel costs as tea research. One of Winter's goals was to travel to England. She emphasizes that we should merge our personal goals with our business ideas, if possible.
In addition to discussing her own profit centers, Winters discusses many other entrepreneurs who earn money in creative ways. For example, one entrepreneur earns money by running a cattery, which is a cat boarding service. Of course, the cattery owner finds other ways to supplement income, such as founding Critter Communication Consulting, which helps people relate to their pets.
Winters writes: "Landlording is, of course, one of the oldest ways to make a living without a job. In earlier days, widows frequently took their only asset [a house] and turned it into a profit center." Another entrepreneur merges fighting seasonal forest fires with writing and odd handyman jobs to earn a living.
So, why don't people quit their jobs and become joyfully jobless? Fear of not having a regular income is one reason. Winters writes: "Too often we confuse fear with bad ideas! It's far healthier to accept that you are feeling fearful about a new plan-and determine that you'll act anyway... . stop and give yourself positive reasons for doing what's scary. Write out a list, if necessary... . Life shrinks or expands in proportion to your courage"
Winters says many people are afraid of looking foolish for not holding a job. We tend to draw a sense of identity from a conventional job. Quoting movie reviewer Roger Ebert, Winter writes, "'Set up your life so that your personal goals are their own reward... . What you do instead of your real work is your real work.'"
Winters says Ebert is a good example of someone who merged his early passion (for watching movies) with a career. Others only later discover their true calling and choose to pursue it. Winters tells the story of a cardiologist turned country western singer.
To me, it seems that being a cardiologist would destroy the country western perspective. What sort of lyrics does the guy write? "You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille. With four kids in Harvard and stocks of low yield... ." I'm waiting for his hit single, "You Broke My Left Ventricle."
Winters says we tend to be work snobs and feel that the work we really want to do is beneath us. If it's fun, it can't be real work.
Without steady income, we might need to come up with something quick to earn money. Winter offers a list of suggestions for generating emergency cash. For example, she says we could offer to clean something, possibly an airplane. An airplane? I picture a guy standing in front of a 747 with a squeegee. I guess she means Cessnas and Pipers. Either way, this joyfully jobless sounds like it could become real work. Don't forget to wash under the wings.
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P. Lozar (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
My work history has ranged the spectrum from Corporate Clone to short-term contracting, and even when I was employed full-time at a "real job" I always had one or two other businesses going on the side. But, like most Americans, I'd been brainwashed into thinking everyone should have a well-defined and well-thought-out CAREER, so I didn't take my "sidelines" seriously. And, after thirty-plus years in the work force, I was still searching for the One Perfect Job that would best utilize my abilities and satisfy my soul. This book changed my thinking: Barbara Winter shows how to evaluate your talents, interests, and skills, and turn what you already like to do into multiple income streams. She gives inspiring examples, provides tools for self-analysis, and offers encouragement; she doesn't give specifics on how to create your perfect work, but she can't because everyone's combination of abilities and knowledge is unique. The book started me thinking on how I could create income sources from the things I enjoy doing, and convinced me that I don't need to find that elusive Perfect Job after all. I recommend it highly to anyone searching for a better way to work.
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Dan Therrell (MSL quote) , USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
It has been said that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. "Making a Living Without a Job" is the kind of book that will appear to help you when you are ready to seriously consider stepping away(or when you are pushed away)from the security of a regular job as an employee. Perhaps I liked it so much because I was just very ready. My employer of 27 years is going through yet another downsizing, with all the anxiety and stress which accompanies the process.. In any case, Barbara Winters does a good job keeping her advice upbeat and uncomplicated. The book is an easy read. If you are expecting a book on how to make a quick million, this is not it, but if you want some philosophy about life, money and getting personal satisfaction from the work you do, this may be a book you are ready for !! I found it inspiring to me in many ways.
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