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Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Your book is exactly what I need
right now - I read it over the weekend and am re-reading and
highlighting, etc. Have recommended it to at least a half dozen
folks, and am so grateful for the practical wisdom, step by step
advice, and most of all, for permission, finally, to do totally
unrelated things! You cannot imagine how much I appreciate that!
~ Ingrid Johnson,
BabyParentingCoach.com
I couldn’t be happier about the new updated version of
Making a Living Without a Job by my friend and frequent
collaborator Barbara Winter. I would have said new and “improved”
but it is hard to improve on perfection. Barbara has added some
great new sections on how to find opportunities in a chaotic
economy, using the Internet and Social Networking to open the door,
and how to leave employee thinking behind for an entrepreneurial
mindset. Even if you own Making a Living Without a Job, this
new version is a must have on any aspiring or inspired entrepreneurs
bookshelf! ~ Valerie Young,
ChangingCourse.com
I am blown away and even though I have read the original
numerous times, the new edition has so many new stories, ideas and
resources to inspire, my head is spinning.
I even thought about sending a copy to the President. He
could use it as a blueprint to empower and inspire the nation - a
nation that was founded on the entrepreneurial spirit. In reality
this book should be mandatory reading in every high school and
college and every adult education program
This book could change your life!!
~ Sandy Dempsey, TheDreamingCafe.com
If you’re a career changer who’s recently started down the
path of self-employment, you’re probably discovering what we veteran
self-bossers have learned from experience. Most of the time, being
your own boss is everything it’s cracked up to be, offering
autonomy, decision-making power, unlimited learning and earning
potential, flexible hours, dress code, office environment, yada yada
yada. But not every day is like that. Some days, there’s just a
little too much "self" in "self-employment"; some days, you need a
little outside support, perspective, and inspiration — preferably
from someone who’s been there, survived that. Some days, you need a
little Barbara Winter.
New self-bossers, veterans who could use an infusion of
inspiration, anyone trying to make a living without a J.O.B.: do
yourself — and your bottom line
— a favor, and get Making a
Living Without a Job, the ultimate guide to creative, inspired
self-employment.
~ Sherrill St. Germain,
New Means
Financial Planning
Today's tip: I am sent plenty of business books and read a lot
of them. Over the next few weeks, I would like to share in this
space some of the best that I have come across recently.
To start, for a couple of reasons, I highly recommend the
newest edition of Barbara Winter's classic, Making a Living Without
a Job.
This great book shows anyone how they too can become "joyfully
jobless." In a different life, when I was the unhappiest lawyer in
the land working for the big firm, this book helped me plan my
escape. It changed my life, and it can change yours.
In the years since, Barbara Winter has become my friend and I
was privileged enough to be asked to write the forward to the new
edition.
Steve says check it out!
~ Steve Strauss, Mr.AllBiz, USA Today online
Honestly, I just wanted to write to tell you that your book
made a huge impact on me. I am unfortunately a self-help junkie, and
read books of varying subjects under the heading of self-help all
the time.
I connected with you as a person, and as an author. I very
rarely contact authors of books I read because like a true scanner,
I am worried that making that firm of a connection to something
would tie me to it!
But your book is worth the exception. It is incredible work.
Really it is. It contains so much more than what the title implies.
The combination of personal insight, and wisdom gathered from others
(expert research, as almost every page contained a quote that I
wanted to write down and live by) was masterful and I just can't
stop thinking about it. I pray that I am able to take action and do
something with the information, a step that admittedly the vast
majority of other books I've read on the subject have come up short
on.
~ Clint Herring, VA
I have read your fantastic book Making a Living without a job
and I would like to thank you so much for your help! It was one of
the best books I have ever read on the subject of being my own boss.
I come from Slovakia, a post communist country where I was
brought up believing the state will take care of me. Going from one
corporate job to another I was coming home late in the evening
everyday not having time for anything else. In first ten years after
school I believed this is the way how it should be, working for
somebody else, building a career. Only after some time I have
realised I have destiny in my own hands and I don’t have to sit in
front of the computer all day long in a job I hate.
I have moved to the Netherlands with my partner and I was
struggling to find a job. Now I have ended up in a job which I truly
hate from all before. This job made me realise its time to finally
do it, and after I have read your book I made a business plan and
next month I am going to start my own portable career.
I bought some other books but they were most like dry manuals
probably written by some bankers ;~ They did not have that soul
searching bit I was looking for. You have become my friend,my guide,
my inspiration through your words, quotes, advices and exercises.
You have made a difference in my thinking and my future path.
~ Andrea Zátoriová
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