Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1177153 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 116 pages

Customer Reviews

Featured book in January 1999 "Reviewer's Bookwatch"
UN-JOBBING: THE ADULT LIBERATION HANDBOOK (Second Edition) acknowledges that, in many ways, jobs are literally robbing people of their true lives. "Making a Living" can turn out to be a long, quiet, debilitating death of the soul -- and even the body.

UN-JOBBING gives explanations about better understanding money and materialism, about focusing activities on returning one's gifts to the community, about orienting one's life around cooperation rather than competition, and about living more lightly on the planet. Among the topics covered are taxes, insurance, conscious personal financial organization, and the problem of thinking that economic "growth" is desirable.

UN-JOBBING contains a philosophical context, numerous practical suggestions, thumbnail sketches of people making un-jobbing work, and an annotated Appendix of helpful organizations and other books for further exploration.

An Eye Opener
Don't underestimate this book. Fogler seems to offer some straightforward, common sense advice about frugal living, and indeed he does, but it's much much more than that. This book prods you into thinking about our consumer society and what's important in one's life, and not just from an ethereal, "puffy cloud" point of view. Rather, in gently helping the reader to examine his or her life, Fogler challenges us to look at what we do for work and play, and why. The answer might be a stunner. This book is not for people who like lots of toys. Rather, it is for those who want a fresh perspective on how to express our authentic selves in what we do, and how you can indeed change your life if you don't have that now. Pretty scary, but joyously liberating.