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Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways For Creating Work That You Love (Paperback) (Paperback)
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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Author: Barbara Winter
Publisher: Bantam
Pub. in: July, 1993
ISBN: 0553371657
Pages: 272
Measurements: 8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00917
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0553371659
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This is a remarkably interesting book about how to approach self-employment. It is not a cookbook or listing of readymade businesses, but rather a guidebook about the entire process of moving into self-employment.
Published in 1993, some of the information is a bit dated, but since the primary thrust of the book is not to provide the reader with specific current opportunities, the book holds up very well over time.
There are many examples of people building different types of businesses, and advice from some well-known success stories. The book is broken into five parts, each with two or three chapters. Each chapter starts with a relevant quote, and treats a specific area of focus, such as; Doing First Things First, Uncovering Your Assets, Creating Multiple Profit Centers, Marketing On A Shoestring, etc.
While there is plenty of advice on creating and starting a business (or multiple businesses), most books on starting your own business will mention the emotional and mental obstacles involved, but seldom give the reader much in the way of concrete methods for dealing with them. This book gives you the tools for dealing with the most difficult part of running your own business - your own habits and attitudes. Winter spends a great deal of time covering the psychological groundwork necessary to succeed at being your own boss. She does this in a clear manner, with examples from the real world. There is also a booklist in the back with resources for different areas, such as Personal Growth, Marketing, Entrepeneurial Inspiration, and so on.
This book will be a very great help in establishing the kind of mindset that will allow one to succeed.
Target readers:
General readers
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Barbara Winter is a Minneapolis-based entrepreneur, writer and speaker who has spent the past 19 years helping people discover their passions and turn them into profitable businesses. She is the author of the best-selling book, Making a Living Without a Job:Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love (Bantam), now in its 17th printing. Her newest book is Jumpstart Your Entrepreneurial Spirit.
Barbara is also the publisher of Winning Ways, the longest running self-employment newsletter. In 2002, she and Nick Williams co-founded the Dreambuilders Community, an international organization for inspired entrepreneurship. She conducts seminars and retreats around the country, in Canada and Europe. In addition, she's an intrepid world traveler who is ferociously committed to lifelong learning.
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"Making A Living Without A Job" is a book about how to earn a living after you are no longer an employee of anyone else by becoming your own boss. The author teaches the reader to think in really expansive, creative ways about one's talents, knowledge, and resources and how to use those to create multiple income streams sufficient to meet your needs.
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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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