UnJobbing The Adult Liberation Handbook Electronic Edition eBook Michael Fogler
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Un-Jobbing The Adult Liberation Handbook has been helping thousands of people who want to free themselves from a life of merely earning a paycheck, to reclaim a liberated life in complete alignment with personal values. This book effectively gives you the ideas, resources, and inspiration to achieve a life of what you really want o do — and still make ends meet. Succinctly and simply, this newly updated electronic edition is a powerful tool for helping individuals coping with our stressed-out world.
UnJobbing The Adult Liberation Handbook Electronic Edition eBook Michael Fogler
Although written in 1999-2000, this book could be speaking directly to our government officials' current plans to "jumpstart" the economy. In this short, highly readable book, Fogler brings us back to the grounded environmental perspective that has too often been brushed aside in the current rush to create more jobs, produce more, buy-buy-buy more - in order to put our economy back on track.Fogler believes that it's better for families to arrange to have lower expenses than to struggle for higher incomes. He makes some suggestions about how the average family can radically reduce its cost of living so that they can hope to live without have regular 9-5 jobs. Things that many feel they have to have in order to survive in this world, are actually superfluous to the good life. Good schools for the kids, that second car (or even that first car), and a large home with its maintenance costs and the attendant insurance policies deemed necessary to protect it are hardly essentials.
Fogler also points out how daily little savings can be made in the areas of clothing, food, and canned entertainment. All the little savings can add up to a big saving that frees people from routine, careerist work. It can free them to live in closer touch with their other family members, with community members, and with nature.
He points out that the only truly fulfilling work is "giving one's gifts back to the community." Anything done only for getting the carrot of money at the end of a stick is at least in part drudgery that wastes one's few precious years on this earth.
What little money Fogler occasionally needs in dealings with the larger cash-driven economy - he earns by giving guitar lessons or by doing neighborly carpentry work. He gives examples of what other un-jobbers have done to get the minimal amounts of cash they occasionally need to function in the larger society.
However, Fogler doesn't really address the question of what would happen if everyone, or even if a significant percentage of the population, gave up steady jobs and dabbled in artisan outputs this way. He seems to assume living in rural or semi-rural conditions. But I still think that big cities are fantastically vital places to live and that, because of their concentrations of infrastructure, they can also be very environmentally friendly. However it takes concerted effort to run many of the mammoth utilities that keep a city functioning. Collecting garbage, processing water, treating sewage, all require the coordinated efforts of thousands of employees. It's unlikely that enough people would regard such jobs as intrinsically rewarding enough to do them without cash pay. Also, these jobs, like being an airplane pilot, can't be performed in casual swatches of time. You have to commit to being there certain hours, Johnny-on-the-spot, to provide some consecutive intelligence to the operation.
Fogler doesn't even consider such questions in this slim volume. He doesn't answer the big questions of how our U.S. economy and the world economy could be re-oriented away from dependence on massive production/masive consumption. However, Fogler does mention that he often gives lectures on the topic of how to "Un-Job," and perhaps some of these larger issues get addressed in these face-to-face debates. There's also a very helpful list of resources at the end of this book, steering the reader to on-line sites, to un-jobbing communities, and to further reading on the subject.
Overall, this book will serve beautifully to jump-start you on the way to a simpler, freer life. It offers good advice and encouragement on dropping out the rat race. It also gives inspiring assurance that such defection from the 9-5 commuter swarm might not constitute shirking from honest work. Sitting on the porch and stopping to smell the roses might in many cases serve those around us better in the long run than scattering out to standard salaried jobs. Clearing one's life to make room for leisurely, simple enjoyments might be a way to answer a higher calling.
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UnJobbing The Adult Liberation Handbook Electronic Edition eBook Michael Fogler Reviews
For me, this was a new perspective in an area I have been reading in for years, as well as planning for. What I particularly enjoyed about this short, insightful work is the discussion of taxes and their expenditure, and how little of that is going into supporting what I feel is best for our communities.
A very valuable, common sense examination of alternatives to an employment driven perspective of life! This book is helping me crystallize my plans for retirement since, like many baby boomers, my projected retirement from social security and little savings will not entirely cover my current expenses. This is helping me see how I can, in fact, survive financially with less guaranteed income.
Although a short book, Un-Jobbing is full of practical insights, advice and inspiration for anyone questioning the whole “9 to 5 until 65” paradigm existing in our society. Along with his insights, the author provides valuable resources in the Appendix providing a great jumping off point for those eager to begin their own un-jobbing journey.
So, I haven't finished the book yet. That's because the author repeats himself and belabors the same points over and over, so much so that I got irritated reading it. I'll get back to it at some point and probably jump to the end.
Nice little book. Easy read. Positive energy. Some great perspective on economics, education, and healthy living. As a person already well into this type of lifestyle it isn't really anything new but it's still nice to connect with a fellow human on a similar journey. I love that it is out there and hope it brings more people to our more simple and joyous way of life. Well done Mr. Fogler.
Interesting personal anecdote but not very long and not with very many ideas for those wanting more concrete information on how to "un-job". The author should think about an addendum that deals with how nationalized healthcare may be an option for some. I found this area of concern (covering medical costs) addressed a bit scantily and casually.
I would like to see more of the foundation for some of the author's assertions, but I firmly agree that we are better off when we cooperate than when we compete.
Although written in 1999-2000, this book could be speaking directly to our government officials' current plans to "jumpstart" the economy. In this short, highly readable book, Fogler brings us back to the grounded environmental perspective that has too often been brushed aside in the current rush to create more jobs, produce more, buy-buy-buy more - in order to put our economy back on track.
Fogler believes that it's better for families to arrange to have lower expenses than to struggle for higher incomes. He makes some suggestions about how the average family can radically reduce its cost of living so that they can hope to live without have regular 9-5 jobs. Things that many feel they have to have in order to survive in this world, are actually superfluous to the good life. Good schools for the kids, that second car (or even that first car), and a large home with its maintenance costs and the attendant insurance policies deemed necessary to protect it are hardly essentials.
Fogler also points out how daily little savings can be made in the areas of clothing, food, and canned entertainment. All the little savings can add up to a big saving that frees people from routine, careerist work. It can free them to live in closer touch with their other family members, with community members, and with nature.
He points out that the only truly fulfilling work is "giving one's gifts back to the community." Anything done only for getting the carrot of money at the end of a stick is at least in part drudgery that wastes one's few precious years on this earth.
What little money Fogler occasionally needs in dealings with the larger cash-driven economy - he earns by giving guitar lessons or by doing neighborly carpentry work. He gives examples of what other un-jobbers have done to get the minimal amounts of cash they occasionally need to function in the larger society.
However, Fogler doesn't really address the question of what would happen if everyone, or even if a significant percentage of the population, gave up steady jobs and dabbled in artisan outputs this way. He seems to assume living in rural or semi-rural conditions. But I still think that big cities are fantastically vital places to live and that, because of their concentrations of infrastructure, they can also be very environmentally friendly. However it takes concerted effort to run many of the mammoth utilities that keep a city functioning. Collecting garbage, processing water, treating sewage, all require the coordinated efforts of thousands of employees. It's unlikely that enough people would regard such jobs as intrinsically rewarding enough to do them without cash pay. Also, these jobs, like being an airplane pilot, can't be performed in casual swatches of time. You have to commit to being there certain hours, Johnny-on-the-spot, to provide some consecutive intelligence to the operation.
Fogler doesn't even consider such questions in this slim volume. He doesn't answer the big questions of how our U.S. economy and the world economy could be re-oriented away from dependence on massive production/masive consumption. However, Fogler does mention that he often gives lectures on the topic of how to "Un-Job," and perhaps some of these larger issues get addressed in these face-to-face debates. There's also a very helpful list of resources at the end of this book, steering the reader to on-line sites, to un-jobbing communities, and to further reading on the subject.
Overall, this book will serve beautifully to jump-start you on the way to a simpler, freer life. It offers good advice and encouragement on dropping out the rat race. It also gives inspiring assurance that such defection from the 9-5 commuter swarm might not constitute shirking from honest work. Sitting on the porch and stopping to smell the roses might in many cases serve those around us better in the long run than scattering out to standard salaried jobs. Clearing one's life to make room for leisurely, simple enjoyments might be a way to answer a higher calling.
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