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

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The book you are holding in your hand right now changed my life, and it can change yours too.

Back in the early nineties, I was a young lawyer who seemed to have it all: a beautiful wife and children, a good job with a high-powered law firm, making the big bucks, you name it. But the operative phrase in the preceding sentence is “seemed to have it all.” In truth, I was miserable. I was working in excess of sixty hours a week, my boss was the very definition of a “bad boss,” and the fact was, I hated being an employee.

What I longed for, what I literally and figuratively dreamed about, was to be my own boss, to start my own business. But I had no idea how. And then I found this book. Making a living without a job? Was that even possible? It was, and Barbara Winter showed me how. The book explained how anyone can become what she calls “joyfully jobless.” I devoured it—writing in the margins, doing the exercises, following the leader. It was easy to read and understand, even though the ideas she presented were significant and life changing.

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