No Job and Little Money But Still Inspired

Here is the latest e-mail that I received about my books:

----- Original Message -----
From: Nadine Myers
To: vip-books (at) telus
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 7:54 AM
Subject: You're Awesome!


Hi Ernie!

I just needed to contact you today because a fire has been lit in my belly and I have to say that I believe that it is mostly because of you!

A couple of years ago a few things happened that made me realise that the corporate world was not for me. I tried network marketing around my day job which I also found was not for me, so just went from contract role to contract role and decided I needed a bigger change and there seemed to be a big pull towards Canada. So here I am!

I am back working in the Corporate world but with the mentality that I will only be here until I get bored then I will move on. I am busy with a non-real job outside of this (www.NabThatJob.com), however I am not earning enough money yet from this to leave my day job.

I also have a lot of debt (not unlike yourself when you first started your life of freedom) and no money behind me, as well as some investments that require payments every month.

I first came across The Joy of Not Working in a second hand book shop and reading about how you started lit a flame in me and inspired me further.

After many frustrations in my current job I was lead to your new book, Real Success Without a Real Job and as soon as I started reading it last night I could not put it down!

You are such an inspiration to me and I want to thank you because I know that I will be there one day very soon.

I am weighing up options and at this stage I'm thinking I will stick out this job for one year to get my debts cleared and reduce my outgoings every month. I will then be able to comfortably live on minimum income and therefore will have less pressure to pay bills etc. I do not have many friends in Canada and so no-one to fall back on here, although that does not scare me.

I just needed to thank you for leading such an awesome path and for writing these materials to help people like me to feel more comfortable about this leap out of society!

I look forward to bumping into you in one of your many offices (i.e. a coffee shop) one day!!

Have an awesome day & rest of the week!

Cheers,

Nadine


Nadine Myers
Nab That Job in Australia!

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Benefit from a Recession: Quit Your Job

There are many benefits from a recession as are listed on my new website Love a Recession.

A recession is not the end of the world. Heck, you can even quit your job.

Following is a scan of a letter that I received in 1992 from Les Oak in Ontario who quit his job after reading The Joy of Not Working. Keep in mind that there was a recession going on at that time too.

I will soon post another letter that I received from a woman who just quit her job. Her motivation was Les Oak's above letter announcing his quitting his job, which appears in the latest edition of The Joy of Not Working.



If you don't have any good reasons to quit your job, then visit my new website The Fun at Work Cafe.

If you can't quit your job, it's likely that you are not as proficient at debt management as people such as Les Oak are.

Here are some quotes from The Money Cafe to place debt and credit in their place:


Who pays his debts, gets rich.
— French proverb

He that has not bread to spare should not keep a dog.
— Chinese proverb

The saving man becomes the free man.
— Chinese proverb

You can't put your VISA bill on your American express card.
— P. J. O'Rourke

He who borrows gets sorrows.
— Turkish proverb