Category Archives: Escape Routes
Charting Your Voyage Out of the Rat Race
It’s all in the finances. If you want to escape from your day job, all it really takes is an ability to earn more than you can reasonably expect to live on per month. Part of making “The Great Office Escape” is having an understanding of your financial picture, and in order to do this, [...]
How to Find Legitimate Telecommuting Jobs
When I was starting out in the freelance web development business one of the biggest obstacles I kept stumbling over was the pervasiveness of “garbage jobs” and junky “job search engines” that clogged the internet. At the time I needed to be able to find remote work from real businesses and clients. During my initial [...]
Untying Your Work from Your Income
Awhile back I had an enlightening conversation with a good friend who was looking or a second job. She works at a coffee shop and is one of the may who earns an hourly wage, putting in anywhere from 30 to 35 hours per week in exchange for $10 an hour or so. Even though [...]
Escaping the Office During a Recession
Escape the Office? I can barely afford to feed myself, let alone my kids. I can barely even keep up with my bills, mortgage and grocery expenses. How can I think about leaving my office job (or any job) and finding a more fulfilling life? This is a common refrain. Therefore, it seems like I [...]
Freelancing Your Job
Freelance designer. Freelance artist. Freelance Assistant. These days it seems that you can take just about any career and turn it into a self-employed venture, or at least a contract position (where you can negotiate a remote working environment or work-at-home office.) Overlooked by many wannabe-office-escapees, it’s perhaps the easiest path to having more control [...]
A Better Career – A Better Life
I’ve noticed a disturbing pattern developing amongst many people who feel trapped in office culture. It’s a pattern that combined an unhealthy dose of complacency, complaining, and a hint of anger. Mix those wonderful traits together with a touch of depression and you have your classic case of burnout: someone who cannot stand their job [...]
Facebook as a Marketing Tool
I fondly remember the late winter days of 2005 when I signed up for a facebook account to help stay connected with some of my friends. At the time, we college kids were thinking of using this site as a place to post funny photos, send messages and share stories in one spot. (At the [...]
10 Offbeat and Exciting Careers
I’ve been meaning to come up with a practical, handy list of some of my favorite offbeat careers for some time now. While these lists exist just about everywhere it seems, mine has a special emphasis on avoidance of certain elements like standard work hours, confinement to one location and restriction to one function. Many [...]
Making Your Escape From Employment
It’s really simple. There is one thing that you have to do to break free of the rat race forever. Just one. And if you can do it, you will never have to go back to being a wage slave, dependent on forced hours and having your time and life stolen away. It’s as close [...]
5 Freelance Careers
Many careers can be parlayed into self-employed ventures. In fact, on some level just about anything can. In a previous entry I discussed how Graphic Designers can just as easily be self-employed (well, maybe not AS easily) as office slaves. For your entertainment here is a fun list I concocted of some of these careers. [...]
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