How to Make a Living without a Job: The Stay-at-Home Mom's Guide to the Creative Lifestyle
How to Make a Living without a Job: The Stay-at-Home Mom's Guide to the Creative Lifestyle
This book is for the stay-at-home Mom who wants to increase the family means or support the family without going to work, for the working mom who wants to be a stay-at-home mom, for the working dad who wants to be a stay-at-home dad and for the single working person who wants to become a stay-at-home parent.
As a university student, something about the work world prevented me from diving right in, and I hugged the safe shores of studenthood as long as I could, until finally I managed to stay in school by getting a job as a teacher. Once there, after a mere one year of full-time slavery, I mean job, with benefits, I headed off to Japan to see the world. In a time where every Japanese business person wanted to learn the International Language of Business (English), I accidentally started my own one-person business. Because of the demand to learn English, all I needed to do was go to a public place to find students. Otherwise shy and reserved passengers on trains would start up conversations to practice their skills. It would have been harder not to make money teaching English at this time.
I worked seven months a year, while earning approximately ten times the hourly rate I had earned teaching in Canada and spent the remaining time traveling, learning Japanese and practicing Japanese paper crafts.
Once back in North America, I somehow expected business to be as easy as it was during my time in Japan. It wasn’t. However, I had tasted freedom and I wasn’t going back to slavery – I mean employment.
Making a living without a job goes beyond our current ideas of work, beyond completing a set of tasks in order to collect money so you can afford food and a roof. It aims to integrate personality, family, income, productivity and creativity to design a lifestyle that works for you and everyone in your family. There is no such thing as “the ideal lifestyle” for anyone, because life is a creative process, with demands and wants evolving as we go, but there is the perfect solution for the question of the moment. This book aims to help you find these solutions.
The benefits of making a living without a job are so many. I’m sure that anyone who has had a full-time job doesn’t need me to enumerate them. But I will anyway:
1.Time freedom
2.Freedom to pursue your interests, passions and creativity.
3.Freedom to spend time with the people you love, especially your family
4.Freedom to home school your children
5.Freedom to make your own schedule
6.Freedom to do what you want, when you want, with whomever you want.
7.Freedom to craft your career the way you want.
In one word, the benefit is freedom.
General Contents:
Section I: First we’re going to look at envisioning a lifestyle of freedom and creativity that supplies all your needs and wants.
Section II: Secondly, we’ll work on creating structure so you can incorporate money-producing activities into your life that suit you and fulfill you.
Section III: Thirdly, we’ll help you develop those money-producing activities so they actually produce money. The money-producing activities in this book work great with kids. They'll help your children learn about business and create family projects that will improve the quality and and increase the quantity of time spent together as a family.
Section IV: And lastly, we’ll look at ways to acquire commodities and services in ways that don’t require money. Again, this section is full of projects that work wonderfully in conjunction with raising kids.