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Making a Living Without a Job, revised edition: Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love
 
 

Making a Living Without a Job, revised edition: Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love [Kindle Edition]

Barbara Winter
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For all of the millions of Americans who are out of work, soon to be out of work, or wishing to be freed from unrewarding work—here is the must-have book that will show you how you can make a living by working when, where, and how you want.

Newly revised and updated, Barbara J. Winter’s guide to successful self-employment is now more relevant than ever before. Drawing on the techniques and ideas of her popular seminars as well as her own thirty years of business expertise and that of other successful entrepreneurs, Winter offers the practical, proven way to launch your own profitable venture. Her indispensable advice ranges from why creativity is more important than capital to how to avoid the most common pitfalls of self-employment and how to develop multiple profit centers.

And for this new edition, she has added timely advice on topics including:
•how to find opportunity in a chaotic economy
•why smart, small and spunky is the 21st Century business model
•using the Internet to open the door to fresh opportunities
•the best resources to help you create and grow a business that is uniquely your own
•how to leave Employee Thinking behind and build an Entrepreneur’s Mindset
•and much more

Here are all of the tools you need for getting the most profit out of life both professionally and personally.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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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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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 480 KB
  • Print Length: 290 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0553386603
  • Publisher: Bantam (9 Jun 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003O86L0I
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #96,861 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
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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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
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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61 of 67 people found the following review helpful
Outdated and a bore! 10 Aug 1999
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
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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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Make a life, not just a living
Feeling very motivated with only 20 pages left to go. It's like a friendly helping hand giving you encouragement, guidance, confidence and unlike other similar books, Barbara gives... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Buckyohare99
Joyfully Jobless - FABULOUS!
I thought this would be another 'learn what you need to know about working for yourself hum-drum book. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Lady C. Hamilton-Fford
What I think of this book
This is the second time I have read this book and enjoyed it even more than my first time. It is very readable, practical, filled with real-life anecdotes, enjoyable and makes one... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mrs. Y. A. Larbi
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
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 July 1999
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
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
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
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
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 July 1997
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