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Time was when if you wanted to work from home your best bet was to work stuffing envelopes or processing payments for large medical insurers such as Kaiser or Aetna. Most of those jobs have been outsourced to even cheaper labor in other parts of the world or are now being done by computers or technology. Now the fastest and best way to get a work at home gig is to surf the web. That’s right, the worldwide web, or as we like to call it, cyber heaven. You can skip the surfing though and just go straight to Craigslist and odds are you will find just the right kind of short or long term job that will fit your preferred lifestyle, and that is as a shut-in. Okay, shut-in may be a bit harsh, but definitely one that likes to type wearing nothing but his jammies (if that) and if you try that outside the privacy and sanctity of your own domicile you could be in for derision at best and incarceration at worst. Unless you’re a sixteen year old girl going to Starbucks in the morning, you should not be seen outside the house in your P.J.’s.

I digress. Go to Craigslist (www.craigslist.com) and find your country, state, and local area by navigating through the region finder on the right. Once you get the screen of your region, fiddle around with it and get to know all the different sections. The job listing board is great and contains tons of full time positions. Unfortunately, most of these require showering and getting dressed in more than your undies. You may actually be forced to sit in an airless, windowless cubicle for eight to ten hours each day. If just the thought of working like this makes you shudder with revulsion, then you need to look elsewhere if you are looking to make some sort of income from home, no matter how feeble.

Because of course you will not find a $75 an hour job in the Gigs section of Craigslist. If you do find one then you should immediately go out and buy a lottery ticket because this is the luckiest day of your life. But just look at all the savings you get by working from home. You don’t need fancy, expensive clothing anymore. If you do decide to keep your car, you will definitely save on gas. So what if you make less (okay, a lot less) than your previous daytime enslavement, the point is, you are now free. Income from home means freedom to do whatever you want, practically anytime you want to do it. It means taking two hour lunches (or even three) and maybe a late afternoon nap.

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What I did was, I decided to go to work for myself. I found out that I could cash in my pension right away; so I opted for a partial pension, and cashed my pension for a $200,000 payout. I always regretted not exploring my academic talents enough. It’s just that as a 22-year-old kid, I was tired of depending on my parents, and wanted to strike out on my own. Now I was 49, I felt I had explored the “striking out” as far as it would go, and it didn’t seem like I made the right choice all those years ago. I wanted to stop being reasonable or sensible, and I wanted to really find out how good I would be at a strange, new and mysterious occupation. This was the mother of changing careers. I didn’t even have the qualifications.

Everyone knows the risks – the new career would be totally new to you. You’d have to start at the bottom, with kids a half your age. If the hiring managers say you are too old and over-qualified to work on a young team, you could be in a real pickle. Changing careers is not for everyone – it is only sensible, if your specific situation works out well. If you just feel stilted and dissatisfied in your current career, a possibly attractive alternative career, will still feel stilted if they pay you a third of what you used to make. Before you make a change, you need to really think of how much you love that other job, and how much you’re willing to give up for it in hard work, less time to yourself and less money. You don’t want to turn out like George in Seinfeld after a quick and haughty job resignation.

When I first got my hands on a large sum of money all at once like that, I do admit that I let it run away with me. I ended up not trying hard enough in the beginning, and wasting the money I had. The first thing you need to do is to put yourself on a strict budget, and never deviate from that, so that you have all the time you need working on changing careers. Restructuring your investments to better go with your new “finding yourself” situation, should also be a priority. You need to spread it out among various safe and conservative bonds and equity, and often, in land or other property. You need to make absolutely sure that it’s conservative, because if something goes wrong with your investments, you’re not 20 anymore, to make it back.

And of course, you don’t want to make your departure at your old job by burning any bridges. Make sure that you show everyone how much working with them meant to you, especially with the boss. If things go very badly with your career change plan, you do want to be able to crawl back.

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