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What are your favorite money songs? Turns out my t What are your favorite money songs? Turns out my top four are all about having money (but I can cry to Fast Car by Tracy Chapman like anyone)
BEHIND THE BUDGET #9 & 10: Workers earning about $ BEHIND THE BUDGET #9 & 10: Workers earning about $65k/year – in both our examples these folks live with someone else and that’s how their budgets stretch to cover housing, savings/retirement, and some fun money. This self-employed herbalist also has healthcare through a partner, and this allows them to invest in wellness practices they need. The community organizer has a home, a car loan and expenses, and makes savings for the house because iykyk.⁠ ⁠ As always, these are amalgamations of real budgets I’ve seen people put together, to make their money situation work as best they can for their lives. It’s never a specific, one persons’ budget. ⁠ ⁠ #behindthebudget #personalfinance
Here's a shockingly incomplete US Labor History ti Here's a shockingly incomplete US Labor History timeline to pique your interest. Check out any of Francis Fox Piven's many books, Howard Zinn's People's History, any biography of Bayard Rustin, or read Leslie Fienberg’s organizing work if you want to go way deeper. Just for starts. The history of the US **IS** the history of labor organizing and struggle, you just have to look behind the worship of the rich to see it.⁠ ⁠ I don't like to post, or work, on Labor Day because my ancestors had to beg and fight to have days off so I want to respect their struggle. In fact LOTS of ancestors had to fight for weekend days off, the right to unionize, workplace safety and decent wages. If you’re not kicking ass for the working class - and I mean for everyone living that experience - what the hell?
What would you be doing if you weren't scheduling What would you be doing if you weren't scheduling your life around work?
First, WOW this feels like a LOADED question: what First, WOW this feels like a LOADED question: what am I supposed to be in love with about work? But when I look back in time - before work was essentially enforced as a means to survival - I can see an answer: being with my gifts and becoming excellent at them, the opportunity to contribute, solving challenges, making amazing things happen with others.⁠ ⁠ So what’s the right amount of work to be able to fall more deeply in love with THAT? …given that I do also have to do it within a market economy that demands I come up with money, and am doing all of this in the one life I am conscious of having these problems in on this plane.⁠ ⁠ I like this question because it feels like an edge: I want to be able to feel drawn TO work by interest and healthy challenge, not repelled FROM it by exhaustion and burnout. For me, that’s about 30-35 hours a week of working, and a max of 10 coaching sessions. I’m able to restore, have time to be a contributor in my communities, and can learn AND deliver with gusto.⁠ ⁠ What do you think? What is YOUR amount of work to fall in love with the work? ⁠ ⁠ Finally - thanks to the writers of the book Coaching for Transformation for the provocation. I’m currently training in order to certify with the ICF and it’s been a fun learning journey!⁠ ⁠ #coachingprompt #workingwell #futureofwork
Working the “right” amount is a challenge: in Working the “right” amount is a challenge: in an ideal world you could find a sweet spot between work hours that also allow you to maintain relationships to health, rest, family, friends, fun, and other responsibilities. Designing this is not easy, nor is it available to all. But, it is deeply worth trying for. ⁠ ⁠ This is just the starting point - and you don’t have to sort it out alone. If you want to figure this out with a crew of queer folks who are self-employed, join Small Business Big Life, starting Sept 9 - Monday afternoons thru Oct 28 we figure our business and money out together.⁠ ⁠ #Smallbusiness #sustainableselfemployment #smallbusinessbiglife
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