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by Barbara Winter (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam USA (31 Aug 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553371657
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553371659
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 164,891 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Offers interactive tests, self-evaluations, charts, and checklists, as well as numerous anecdotes about people who are successfully self-employed.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It will change how you think about your skills/abilities., 21 Nov 1998
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This book is the book for exploring your fears, strengths, weaknesses, and possibilities for how to face tomorrow and earning money there. It has basic exercises to stimulate your exploration of what you can offer the marketplace, and it provides easily understandable commonsense direction of how to find "work" you will enjoy. I have also read "Do what you love and the money will follow" by Marsha Sinetar. Both authors agree that you must do something you enjoy, but Barbara Winter gives you some direction on how to discover what that is. I can't say enough about this book. I am inspired, and I know that I will not spend the rest of my life dreading my "day job" and working only for the weekend.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars This Book Makes You Think About Your Attitude About Work, 10 Jan 1998
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I'd like to recommend "Making a Living Without a Job" by Barbara J. Winter. This is the first book that really put a bee in my bonnet that maybe I can take my financial future into my own hands. It explains how at the turn of the century, most people were self-employed, but then came the industrial age, and people made more money working for a corporation.This created a generation of people who didn't believe they could make it on their own, people who didn't know how to work for themselves because they had no examples to go by.

The part of this book that caught my eye was the chapter on creating multiple profit centers. What that is, is whereas the employee thinks in terms of the single income source, the entrepreneur develops multiple income sources, like a portfolio that encompasses all of your different skills.

I would recommend this book just for the encouragement it gives. It doesn't answer a lot of questions, and I haven't taken the plunge yet, but it certainly gives ideas about how a person can make a living without being employed.

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46 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Outdated and a bore!, 10 Aug 1999
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Although I felt there was some value related to "earning centers", most of this book is one quote after another. Some of the things that really bothered me were related to what she learned from her divorce and failed marrage. Not interested Ms. Winter!

Some of the points of this book may have been valid in the early 1990's, but things are a lot different with the Internet.

Since 90 percent of this book is quotes from others, the author should be listed as "Barbara J. Winter, et.al., et.al, et.al, et.al."

Save your money for something more recent!

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I have read in 1999 (and I read many)!!
If you feel stuck in your career, wishing you had ideas for how to start developing something on your own, then this is THE book to read!! I highly recommend it.
Published on 10 Aug 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars If You've Ever Dreamed of Being Your Own Boss
This book is definitely for you. Like the previous reviewer, I was always too eratic for the status quo, didnt think like other people nor have the same "ingrained and... Read more
Published on 29 Jul 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Lack of Focus?... Revise... Multiple Profit Centers!
In the past forty years I've lived on four continents, in thirty homes, and held fifteen jobs... and had a few self employment activities on the side. Read more
Published on 23 May 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars Yadda! Yadda! Yadda!
Same old, Same old. Nothing new here. Every bit of information in this book can be found in every other book of the same topic.
Published on 21 Aug 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars AHA!!!
Something so simple as first looking for the 'Essence' of your work has a very insightful effect. This book was a major break-through for me. Get it. It will get you unstuck!
Published on 6 Feb 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is helping me tremendously!
I am still reading Barbara's book & cannot take enough notes! It is highly motivating and is giving me the faith and belief in myself that I can make a lot of money doing... Read more
Published on 11 Aug 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, inspirational -- this book has it all!
This book is not about theory. Barbara Winter knows what she is talking about because has lived life on her own terms for 20 years. Read more
Published on 15 Jul 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great book with ideas that have changed my life.
I read this book several years ago and I am currently rereading it to refresh my memory of all the wonderful ideas in it. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book on channeling your creativity into an income
It's a great book on how to channel your creativity into an income. Wade H. Nelson Durango, Colorado
Published on 10 April 1997

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