Currently viewing the category:
"Job"
Chris Guillebeau wanted to build an online community and through that find a way to support himself. For 279 days he worked day and night. On the 279th day his earnings were $50,000 a year. Things have grown tremendously since then. This week he launched his newest book, The [...]
Peggy began to understand the power of eBay when she sold an African fertility statue for $125 that she received for free at a white elephant work Christmas party. It drove her passion to see how cheap she could buy things and how much she could sell them for. She has had some unbelievable sales.
[...]
In 1996 Pamela Slim busted out of what she refers to as ‘the corporate prison’. For the last 16 years she has helped nurture the entrepreneurial spirits of others so they can do the same. Here is a bit of her story.
In talking to people who have either left or lost their job, they very [...]
Benay Wettle worked in IT. She didn’t realize how miserable her job was until she was on a family vacation in Greece and started to hear horribly she spoke about it. When she got home to Australia she started to search for other options. She happened across life coaching. It intrigued her. After a 3-day [...]
At the age of 14 Lucia De Giovanni’s parents did something that would forever change the course of her life – they bought her a camera. Lucia spent almost two decades studying the camera, learning from her mentor David Burnett and working as a photojournalist. Then, thinking she needed traditional stability, security and to own [...]
Courtney Carver was an Ad Sales Director for a group of luxury magazines. She was in debt, she worked all the time and she was stressed out. Then, in 2006, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and was forced to look at her life habits. She started by changing her diet and ended by quitting [...]
After months of traveling Karen and Steve decided they wanted to settle in Australia for a bit. After traveling throughout Southeast Asia the cost of living in Australia was shocking. Determined to make it work, they started doing a little research. Through the help of a few websites they figured out how to live in [...]
On New Year’s Eve 2008, Cathy lost her job. For a year she floated a bit aimlessly, questioning herself, the absurd jobs she was considering and what she really wanted to do. The idea of going to an [...]
At the age of 28 Ryan Nicodemus & Joshua Fields Millburn had what they always wanted — six figure jobs, oversized houses, high priced cars, closets of clothes. The only thing missing? Happiness. If ‘stuff’, they decided, was not helping them find happiness, perhaps not having ‘stuff’ was how they would find it. They decided [...]
Last August Brock Coffman lost his job. Tired of the corporate world Brock decided to exit the rat race and recreate the pretzels he had enjoyed in Bavaria — in Denver. He began perfecting recipes in September. In December his pretzels were in his first Denver area brewery. Here is a bit of his story.
[...]
Scott Witsoe was unexpectedly laid off from his job. Faced with the idea of looking for a new one or seeing what he could do with his passion for brewing beer, he chose the latter. Almost a year to the day later he has a nanobrewery up and running, a tap room for customers, beer [...]
Isaac Hinds has been in the fitness industry for over 12 years. He started as a fitness and body building participant and fan. He evolved his passion into building websites for athletes and then into body building and fitness photography. In 2004 he started hardbody.com. A year and a half ago he [...]
Kristen was born an artist and educated a marketer. When her son was born she wanted out of the corporate 9 to 5.
After trying different things, she decided to start a business selling her art. The first four months sales were bleak. Then she got the idea to make handcrafted signs. Two months later [...]
Craig planned to go on vacation to Cambodia for about three weeks. While he was there, he
was having such a great time he extended his trip by a few days. He was only back in the United States for a few weeks before he decided he [...]
Sherry Ott wants Americans to take a break from their jobs to travel. She wants people to do this so badly she has co-founded an organization to make it happen.
Here is a bit of her story.
What do you think are the hurdles associated with either [...]
Since childhood Kofi wanted to see the United States. His ultimate arrival would be preceded by the murder of his brother and followed by both a love of his new country and a deep frustration over the prejudice he found…in the most unlikely of places.
Here is a bit of his story.
How was [...]
Facebook Like Box
