Freelancing and Advertising
In November when I quit
my salaried job with health insurance and retirement benefits, I
was
terrified. Everyone was already saying that the economy was going
to
hell in a handbasket, and folks were clinging to their jobs like life
rafts. Four months later, our income is nearly as high as it was
last year (granted, never very high working for a nonprofit) and my
stress level has gone down by about 80%.
Mark and I now firmly believe that the way to sail through uncertain
financial times is to work for yourself, diversify your income base,
and become more self sufficient so that your expenses go down over
time. As a result, we have a finger in a bunch of pies --- web
design, graphic design, videography, photography, grant-writing,
ecological consulting, and our beloved Avian Aqua Miser.
(The photo here is Mark mailing a premade unit and a bunch of do it
yourself kits.)
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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