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Here I Come?, No There I Go!

October 14th, 2009 at 02:00 am

I read an article in The Mother Earth News (I think), several years ago about small town living in New England. The gist of it was that folks in that small town all wore several "hats" job wise, in an effort to make a living. I don't remember the specifics but the author delivered newspapers, fixed chainsaws and something else, in addition to his regular job, to make end meet, so he could stay in this lovely rural town. I was reminded of this when I was clicking thru some financial blogs, and noticed that many of them advocate taking on a part time job to pay off debt. I know that Dave Ramsey is big on this. I can comment on this first hand, I once had 4 (count'em 4) part time jobs simultaneously, for about 2 years. I kept hoping that one of them would turn into a full time job, I would have liked any of them, but no luck. I finally thought that I was meeting myself coming and going, and my blood pressure was killing me, and dropped 2 of them. This was a good solution for the short term, but it gets to be very exausting! And, to be truthful, they all were only minimum wage jobs, so even if one of them had been full time, I likely would have been looking for something else anyway. I do still dabble with one, I have a small home based business, I do sewing and alterations. I would love to do this full time, and have several times over the years, but it's just not steady enough income in this area. I like to know that we can pay the bills every week, not just the week when everybody needs a zipper in their jacket. Maybe I should learn to fix chainsaws?

1 Responses to “Here I Come?, No There I Go!”

  1. LuxLiving Says:
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    You have me beat - I used to work 3 jobs at one time and one of them was full time.

    Day job 8-5
    After work job 5:15-8:30
    Night job 8:45 - 1:OO a.m.

    OMG, I was never so tired in all my life. Glad those days are over. Twas needful at the time partly because women were sorely underpaid in those days. This was when I was switching from apt renting w/roommates to buying my own condo.

    Yes, maybe you should fix chainsaws. Hubster is keeping our c.s. repair guy busy lately.

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