“I make myself rich by making my wants few.” — Henry David Thoreau Gathering rain to water your garden, growing a food forest in your backyard, raising chickens in your own coop—these are often things that people associate with the term "self-sufficiency"—but they're not the whole story. Sometimes, in order to be self-employed and living on our own terms, we can't afford a big piece of land or we don't have enough room to fit a large rain barrel. The good thing about self-su

For the small percentage of you that love your company, love your co-workers, but hate your actual job, here is another option worth trying. Okay, Imma' tell you a story, because that's what I do. I worked at this natural foods co-op, and I got along with a lot of the people there. They were (mostly) chill, had that hippie vibe, and were just down to earth people. I applied there to be a part-time admin assistant, and I was qualified—in fact, after about 15 years of admin as

Jobs and careers usually are talked about as singular things—"I need to get a job" , or "This is my career". But what if doing just one thing doesn't make as much sense as it used to? There are three main reasons why more is better when it comes to side hustles: You will have backups. Starting a business isn't ever a sure thing—sometimes we can put our all into something, and it just doesn't bring the results we want. It is nice to have a backup to bring in money while