She really enjoys her job, but she can't wait to get back to her studio and continue her work with stained glass. She has just started her most ambitious project to date a large stained-glass window depicting seminal events in her little town's history. At her village's next arts festival, which lasts two weeks during the summer, she will donate the window to the Permanent Learning Centre. All of Anna's company colleagues have a similar lifestyle. Because complementary currency systems support both types of activities, everybody in Anna's village has the choice to have a dual career.
Some people choose for full-time work in a traditional corporate job.
Some concentrate their energy on their artistic interests, earning mostly community currencies. Many combine the two because greater choice is available, and because life is simply more livable in a 'World in Balance'. With the growth in productivity that has resulted from the Information Revolution, Juliet Schor, associate professor of Economics at Harvard University, asserts that 'We actually could have chosen a four-hour day. Or a working year of six months. German sociologist Ulrich Becker similarly claims that 'There is a life beyond the alternatives of unemployment and stress at work . . .