Deciding Your Own Hours April 12, 2008
Posted by vasbjornsen in Solutions.trackback
Isn’t that what everyone wants? More time and still able to earn a good living. It’s unfortunate, but so many jobs demand so much of your time, and if you have a family, especially small kids, that can be quite challenging and exhausting. However, there are solutions to easing back on hours via different careers.
Below is an article that may interest you.
“Recent studies indicate that today’s working professionals desire control of their time even more than a bigger paycheck. Job seekers can often uncover flexible jobs in businesses that serve customers around the clock, and in industries with a backlog of projects to process. Telecommuting offers professionals the ability to eliminate long commutes without cutting connections from clients or colleagues. Flextime gives workers the ability to set their own hours. Job sharing is a relatively new form of work flexibility, allowing two or three team members to share a single set of responsibilities.”
To read the rest, go to: http://education.yahoo.net/degrees/articles/featured_top_ten_flexible_jobs.html
Hello:
First, isn’t the name of your blog The Unemployment Hole a little too negative?
My following comments are adapted from a more lengthy article calledUnemployment: If You Recently Got Fired from Your Job, Your Good Luck Has Just Begun! which is availabe for free on my blog or in my book Real Success Without a Real Job.
So, What’s Wrong with Unemployment?
Whenever friends or acquaintances tell me that they have either got
fired or laid off their jobs, my response is, “Congratulations.” After I said this to a friend who quit his job during an economic recession
not so long ago, his face lit up, before he started laughing and remarked, “You are the only one who has said this to me. Everyone else is asking me things like ‘How could you during a recession? Jobs are so hard to come by!’ or ‘How are you going to survive?’ ”
I congratulate people who have quit or lost their jobs because I know that for creative and innovative people who want real success in their lives, this is an opportunity for them to go on to something not only better, but something great!
Unemployment is a time to build some real character. Being an optimist when economic times are good doesn’t count. I am now 58 years old and have been unemployed for over half my adult life. This is a good thing. Whatever you sow, you reap. If you want to make unemployment a bad thing, it becomes a bad thing. If you want to look at unemployment as a good thing, as I did, it becauses a good thing. The harvest you reap will depend upon the seeds you plant.
Here are two quotes about unemployment from my e-book 1001 Best Things Ever Said about Work (and the Workplace) available at Creative Free
E-books:
Getting fired is nature’s way to telling you that you had the wrong
job in the first place.
— Hal Lancaster
Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.
— Orson Scott Card
Ernie Zelinski
The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed, and Overworked
(Over 225,000 copies Sold and Published in 17 Languages)
Featured on The Joy of Not Working Website
When I was laid off about two years ago from a job that I felt wasn’t letting me grow, I was happy as could be.
After a while, bill pressures began to mount, but I had a good severance. I thought that I would be reinventing myself by taking advantage of free education for “dislocated workers.”
It was going well at first, but bills began mounting up. Plus, I have 3 kids. My wife works full time, but it isn’t enough to even get by.
What unemployment taught me was humility. I have drive and passion and didn’t want to accept anything but exactly what I wanted to do. As an ambitious person, I am not the kind of guy who likes to come home and plop in front of the television. What a waste of time! I despise the status quo and do not have a desire for collecting a lot of material goods. I cherish life experiences and world exploration so much more, but for that, I need money.
However, now I don’t feel stressed wondering if we can buy enough groceries and gas. I do not live lavishly, but the city where I’m located is extremely overpriced.
I now have a job that I like and pays pretty well, thank you very much.