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Thursday, October 27, 2016

21 Tips for Quitting Your Job & Becoming More Self Reliant At Home


 

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"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

 

 


21 Tips for Quitting Your Job & Becoming More Self Reliant At Home

Earlier this week I posted an article about the virtues of Remote Working…this is a follow-up piece.

 

People working multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet is nothing new.

Many people who couldn't find good full-time employment worked multiple part-time jobs to pay the bills during the Depression. For instance, as a teen in the 1930s, my Dad raised and sold rabbits to help keep the family farm going.

During Prohibition, my mother’s side of the family sold illegal booze, candy, coffee and tobacco from a porch-front store and took in ironing for wealthier neighbors. That was common.

And, this was not just during the Depression. For most people, that was a way of life before the Industrial Revolution created big business with a full-time paycheck.

 
I’ve worked part time jobs since I was eleven years old starting off as a tee-up boy at an exclusive country club in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland.  [that meant I helped the teaching golf pro by bringing out a member’s golf bag, baskets of golf balls and other related duties at 50 cents an hour plus tips…I had to file tax returns at a young age].  Wealthy club members often upgraded their clubs and often simply gave me their old sets of perfectly good clubs and other equipment [which were of top notch quality] which I resold to my father’s friends at a nice profit.

 
  During winter months I worked as a bus boy at an International House of Pancakes and they taught me the basics of cooking [until the head waitress and manager ran off together one night after work with the days’ receipts and the place closed]…

"A
new study from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) finds that the "gig" economy model popularized by Uber has a lot in common with the economies of poor countries today, as well as the US and Europe before the Industrial Revolution." (link to article)

 
There are new opportunities to make a part-time income. It could be working for Uber or selling the crafts you make on Craigslist and Etsy. If you're looking for ways to make some extra money, take a look at this article.





Many of these jobs don't require anyone to hire you. They're the kind of jobs that you create on your own. That can be scary, but it can also be a good way to get out of debt, pay for a vacation, or add a little income to your Social Security check.

It also can be a solution for you if you can't find full-time work. It can be hard piecing together schedules when you're working two or three part-time jobs.

 

 

 


Yours for another revolution,

Bruce ‘the Poor Man’

 

 


Some Added Resources for the Week!

 


 


 


 

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Did you know that you could turn your vehicle into an internet-connected smart car for around $60, which could then save you money? With just a smartphone, bluetooth adapter, and the Dash app you can easily do this yourself.

4 Black Friday Secrets Retailers Won’t Tell You (Time Money): "Like the arrival of Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve, each year retailers deliver a host of deals, discounts and freebies for shoppers as part of a highly anticipated shopping event called Black Friday, which falls on the day after Thanksgiving.  Many of the deals are legitimate bargains, but others are nothing more than ordinary sales wrapped in shiny packaging. How can you tell the difference?"

10 Cheap DIY Halloween Decorating Ideas (Money Crashers): "Whether you throw a Halloween bash, or just want to impress the neighborhood trick-or-treaters with your haunted mansion, you can decorate on a budget for Halloween, and still have the most impressive house on the block."

6 tricks for veterans transitioning from college to the workplace (Military Times): "You’ve already made one major transition, learning to undo your military mindset and getting into the collegiate brain space. Now you’ve got to switch gears again, putting aside your student self as you brace to enter the world of work. Want to get through the transition intact? Here are six rookie mistakes to avoid."

Additional Resources

The Anatomy of a Breakdown

The Prepper’s Blueprint: The Step-By-Step Guide To Help You Through Any Disaster

Prepper’s Home Defense: Security Strategies to Protect Your Family by Any Means Necessary

Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival


 

 


Arm Up System-Defense Without Regulation
PM’s Guide to Home Defense


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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

10 Reasons Why Working Remotely Makes Sense


 

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Self Reliance tools for independent minded people…


ISSN 2161-5543

A Digest of Urban Survival Resources

 


Imagine if everyone in the world worked from wherever, whenever and with whoever they wanted.

According to a recent poll from Gallup called State of the American Workplace, nearly 4 out 10 (39%) companies currently let some employees work remotely.

“Remote work seems to be the wave of the future,” Laura Vanderkam writes in Fast Company. “A recent survey of business leaders at the Global Leadership Summit in London found that 34% said more than half their company’s full-time workforce would be working remotely by 2020. A full 25% said more than three-quarters would not work in a traditional office by 2020, which is not some far off, futuristic era. It’s six years from now.”

And as the digital age carpet bombs the cube farms (a legacy of the Industrial Revolution), people are re-imagining the working lifestyle and, while saving their employers money on overhead costs, are finding a much more sane work-life balance than America has been used to.

The benefits of this trend, you can imagine, will reach well beyond just the confines of America. Being able to work remotely, and without permission from the culture or the government, is beginning to level the playing field in places where forced inequities are incredibly vast.

Take, for example, Code to Inspire (CTI) and the Digital Citizen Fund in Afghanistan -- two organizations which work to empower Afghan women with economic independence. 

“Code to Inspire,” founder Fereshteh Forough writes, “is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit that is committed to educating female students in Afghanistan and improving their technical literacy by teaching them how to code so that they can find future employment as a freelancer and become entrepreneurs driving innovation.”

“Digital Citizen Fund,” Dr. Ehsan Bayat of the Bayat Foundation explains, “teaches women how to make money online through skills other than coding, such as blog writing, social media, and video production.”

If you know little about Afghanistan, here’s why this is important…

According to Forough, 85% of women in Afghanistan have no formal education and are illiterate. Women participation in the labor force, thus, is a paltry 15.7%.

Because it’s still taboo for Afghan women to walk outdoors unattended, social mobility for women is severely restricted. And in the rare case when women do make money, it’s still somewhat taboo for them to have complete control over it.

The solution in the digital age is simple: Empower them to work remotely and to accept bitcoin.

“Women receive payment in bitcoin,” Bayat explains, “which allows them to conceal their identity and keep their earnings private. Even though women can make money in Afghan society through other means, they rarely have control over it once they have earned it. Bitcoin provides them with complete control over their earnings and makes them financially independent in a way that was not previously possible.

“Prior to the bitcoin revolution,” Bayat goes on, “women who accepted online work were typically paid in American currency, which required hefty fees from PayPal or bank wires. Roya Mahboob, the co-founder of Digital Citizen Fund, recalls receiving payment for all the girls in the program in a single lump sum that she would then divide between them according to their earnings. This system avoided tremendous bank fees, but put the women in danger by forcing them to carry large sums of cash. Since bitcoin is anonymous, only the person getting paid knows when a payment comes in and how much it is worth. Bitcoin also prevents the need for a bank account, which can be a liability for a woman in Afghanistan.”

e-residencies are on the rise. Estonia, as one example, allows foreigners to apply to become an e-resident. Meaning, anyone to open up a remote company through their digital Estonian citizenship -- sometimes in just 18 minutes flat.

With low start-up and maintenance costs and competitive tax burdens, a remote Estonian company is a good option for bootstrappers…

 


10 good reasons why working remotely makes sense


Nick Hardiman

 

When employees carry out their duties away from the office, that's remote working -- also known as telecommuting and telework.

It's not an all-or-nothing definition. Some remote workers, like travelling salespeople and call center workers, are permanently away from their organization. Laptop-wielding middle managers regularly dock with the office mothership. Some employees work remotely only when the office is on fire.

The traditional office is under attack, beaten down by remote video calls, outsourcing, and workers in coffee bars. It's a threat that the CEO of Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer, famously tried to stamp out by forcing all employees to work onsite. But who wants to work in the old headquarters?

"You know what I want to do today? Commute to the office!" Said no one. Ever.

And remote working is on the rise. A US federal government report said that 47% of its employees (that's 1,020,034 people — no, really, more than a million people) were eligible to telework — a big increase over the year before.

So is the office dying? Is the attraction of working from the sofa wearing pyjamas just too strong to resist? Last year, a British industry panel led by national daily The Guardian and conference call company Powwownow conducted a round-table discussion to tackle the issue of remote work.

Among their concerns: Can you trust a telecommuter? Does absenteeism trump presenteeism? What's going to happen next? Here are some of their conclusions.

1: Remote workers are less stressed

Daryl Wilkinson, group head of digital development at Nationwide Building Society, said he wanted to encourage remote working to empower his staff and as a demonstration to the rest of the company. "There's less stress in the office and the workplace -- people feel empowered to work in a way that suits them and suits the business."

2: Remote workers are well connected

The prevalence of smartphones and social media mean you don't have to be next to someone to communicate effectively. And new business trends like remote administration, cloud-based project management, video conferencing, and BYOD are extending the effectiveness of remote work.

3: Remote workers cost less

Encouraging different ways of working allows companies to reduce their rent and property costs, according to Ian Adams, head of head of strategic marketing development at outsourcing company Mitie.

4: Absenteeism is good

Not the AWOL type of absenteeism — this is "remote from the office" absenteeism. "The ability to work remotely eliminates the necessity for 'presenteeism' — being in the office as much as possible," said Jonathan Swan, policy and research officer for Working Families, a charity specializing in work/life balance.

5: The new agile workplace creates new jobs

New ways of working require new roles in the organization. "We're seeing greater collaboration between HR, IT, property and facilities management and job titles like 'workplace director' making this agile workplace happen," Adams said.

6: Remote working provides choice

According to Robert Gorby, marketing director of Powwownow, remote working provides choice. "Choice is very important. There shouldn't be a technology-driven compulsion to work in a certain way."

7: Companies benefit from happier remote employees

Try squeezing a de-stressing lunchtime doze into your office day. That's right; it's impossible. "It's about working with the grain of people's lives," Swan said.

8: Remote workers are more engaged

Nationwide's Wilkinson said, "When you're tweeting with people in your team close to midnight, it brings home that people are experiencing something beyond 'doing work' — they're engaged in a different way."

9: Remote venues are better than the office

We've all heard about how J.K. Rowling wrote a lot of Harry Potter in her local coffee bar. Now office workers can get some of that action. "Flexible working isn't just office or home — there may be somewhere near home with better facilities," said Celia Donne, global operations director of Regus, an office accommodations provider.

10: Commuting is bad for you

Even before the workday starts, telecommuting employees are better off than their physical commuting colleagues. According to the UK Office of National Statistics, "Commuters have lower life satisfaction, a lower sense that their daily activities are worthwhile, lower levels of happiness and higher anxiety on average than non- commuters." And less commuting means a smaller carbon footprint, making tree-huggers happier.

The trend continues

The remote work revolution has been rumbling across industries for years now, and it isn't over yet. Flexible working is a done deal, but remote working continues to spread. Andy Lake, editor of flexible work resource Flexibility, said Department for Business surveys showed that more than 90% of companies offered flexible working of some kind, but that this was mostly flexible hours and part-time working rather than telecommuting.

Expect more staff to disappear from the old cube farm as more staff convince their bosses to let them work from home.

[Ed. note: This article originally appeared here, on TechRepublic’s website.]

Regards,

Nick Hardiman
Contributor, TechRepublic






 


Yours for another revolution,

Bruce ‘the Poor Man’

 

Additional Resources

The Anatomy of a Breakdown

The Prepper’s Blueprint: The Step-By-Step Guide To Help You Through Any Disaster

Prepper’s Home Defense: Security Strategies to Protect Your Family by Any Means Necessary

Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival

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PM’s Guide to Home Defense


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http://www.bonanza.com/listings/Guide-to-Home-Defense-Arm-Up-System-Defense-W-out-Regulation-Bonuses/370808566

 

{Note:  We also offer a Three Set CD-ROM-only version at a lesser price for those with limited budgets]

 

…Also>Check this package out, an incredible deal, filled with how-to DVDs, CDs and instructional manuals [last one available]

 

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Support our efforts by shopping my storefront…


 
 
 
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Friday, October 21, 2016

How dare anyone question the sanctity and purity of American democracy? The election itself is a complete farce.



Poor Man Survival

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A Digest of Urban Survival Resources

 


Is the Election a Complete Farce?

 
President Obama, on our dime, is campaigning for Hillary and at the same time, he's censoring Wikileaks.  He sent Secretary of State John Kerry to Ecuador to have them shut off service Julian Assange to prevent him from leaking any more damaging emails about Hillary and the DNC...how 'American' of him.  It almost makes no difference...the lame stream media sure doesn't seem to care about any crimes Hillary or her surrogates commit.
 

The series of debates in the contest to see who will become Captain of the Titanic is finally over.
And as the smoke clears from the evening’s entertainment, the main headlines are focusing on just one thing: Donald Trump’s pledged refusal to say he will accept the election results.

The media is spinning itself into an absolute frenzy over this, perhaps even worse than the Pussygate tape.

It started even before the debate, with yesterday’s headline in the Washington Post read,
“Trump’s election-rigging allegations are affecting people’s faith in democracy”.
The media is all collectively vomiting in disgust: how dare anyone question the sanctity and purity of American democracy?

I find this to be such a farce. The election itself is a complete farce.

Citizens aren’t even voting for President. The United States is still tethered to the corpse of an electoral college system that has its roots in the late 1700s, before the Constitution was even ratified.

The reality is that the President is chosen by 538 “electors,” who, in most cases, are not even legally bound to vote for the candidate to which he or she has pledged.

More than half of the states in the US have no laws to punish “faithless electors” who either abstain or vote for a different candidate, and most states have no procedure to void a faithless elector’s vote.

Admittedly, this electoral college system probably made sense… in 1789.

Back then it was too difficult and logistically challenging to have a nationwide election since transportation was so slow and dangerous.

So I can understand why the Founding Fathers established this system in the early days of the nation.

But the fact that this system is still used in 2016 is a complete joke.

They pretend that America’s representative democracy is the most advanced and pristine in the world, and yet it’s still based on a system in which the people aren’t even voting for President.

By definition this is NOT representative democracy.

As for the allegations of rigging, this is one of the things that drives me crazy about the election.

I’m not “for” any candidate. But I’m completely revolted at the blatant anti-Trump media bias.

The Huffington Post, for example, cannot even mention Donald Trump without adding an editor’s note at the end of the article saying:


“Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.”


Great. We all understand that you think he’s a bad guy.

But what’s sorely lacking is the anti-Hillary editor’s note, something that would read:

“Hillary Clinton is a pathological liar and sociopath who has spent decades engaging in criminal misconduct and abusing her power to enrich herself and her supporters.”

 

Of course, you’ll never see that. The media still get starry-eyed whenever candidate Clinton walks into the room. It’s revolting.
The one that I find most disturbing is the story that Hillary made up about landing in Bosnia in March 1996.

She claimed that she landed “under sniper fire,” and that they all “just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

Then
a video surfaced showing what really happened when she and her daughter landed in Bosnia– it was all hugs and kisses and photo ops. No sniper fire. No running to the vehicles.
Hillary claims to have “mis-remembered”.

Funny thing, when former NBC News anchor Brian Williams “misremembered” being in danger during a ride in a marine helicopter, the guy was crucified and lost his job.

In fact, the people who had the biggest conniption fit over Williams’ misremembering was the media itself. His colleagues turned on him in a nanosecond.

Yet when Hillary misremembers the media gives her a pass.

My dictionary describes the word “RIGGED” as when there’s deliberate activity to produce a result that is advantageous to a certain person.

Well, when the media bias is so brazen, overwhelming and one-sided… RIGGED is absolutely an appropriate word to use.

It’s not sad or disgusting that Trump is questioning the purity of the process or alleging that the election is rigged against him.

It’s sad that it’s actually happening… and that the establishment which is actually doing the rigging refuses to even entertain the possibility that it’s true.

This is banana republic stuff, plain and simple. 

 

Simon Black

Founder, SovereignMan.com

 

Yours for another revolution,

Bruce ‘the Poor Man’

Additional Resources

The Anatomy of a Breakdown

The Prepper’s Blueprint: The Step-By-Step Guide To Help You Through Any Disaster

Prepper’s Home Defense: Security Strategies to Protect Your Family by Any Means Necessary

Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival

 

Arm Up System-Defense Without Regulation
PM’s Guide to Home Defense


It is a crazy world out there with plenty of violence and everyone knows you that under most circumstances, police usually arrive after the fact. Your rights to defend yourself are often under attack, even for non-lethal self-defense tools…Includes book and 3 bonus CD ROMS

http://www.bonanza.com/listings/Guide-to-Home-Defense-Arm-Up-System-Defense-W-out-Regulation-Bonuses/370808566

 

{Note:  We also offer a Three Set CD-ROM-only version at a lesser price for those with limited budgets]

 

Support our efforts by shopping my storefront…


 

 

 

A Smoking Frog Feature, Shallow Planet Production