Asteeeg! Beyond traditional careers and conventional lifestyle

Quit your night-shift call center job. Well, maybe not today or tomorrow but when you have learned enough and saved enough to get by for a new career. This is one opinionated post that will surely touch a nerve with the huge population of young working people in the industry but I’m writing from [...]

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Last October, under the advice of my entrepreneur friend I took a three-week vacation to relieve some stress and to test 4HWW’s mini-retirement. Without much planning, I packed lightly, took a quick snapshot of my finances, and left word to a select few (business and personal) in case of emergency only. It was one of [...]

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Business is hard. Make no mistake about that.
You’ve heard the statistics… around 9 out of 10 businesses fail in the first 2 years. Ouch. We hear about miracle stories from entrepreneurs, published in GoNegosyo or Entrepreneur mag. What you don’t hear about are the equally intelligent and talented people who somehow had to close down [...]

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I’m a nut for non-fiction, particularly books on business, entrepreneurship, self-development and productivity. For those who have read more than a few titles on such subjects, eventually you would notice opposing ideas (which all seem to be right) among authors of any topics.
Take for example two recent best-sellers that are driving the life-hacking craze - [...]

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“How can I quit my job and do what I want, on my own time, and still make enough money?”
Why, it’s never been easier!
If you are already know the answer to this question - move on. But for people who are visiting this site looking for answers to get out of the corporate world and [...]

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Many of us need to expand our views on entrepreneurship beyond creating a small shop or manufacturing a new product, which can be intimidating. There are many, many new alternatives to traditional office work and earning income.

Here’s a short list of careers or money-making options from the top of my head. We’ll go over some of them in more detail in future posts.

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