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How to Make Money While You Look for A Job
By Donna Buskirk
$10 paperback edition
Free ebook at Sevenstepstomoney.com
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The author, laid off for the third time (most recently at Microsoft), offers the full 123-page e-book free, after reading headlines about increasing baby-boomer suicides. She hopes that teachers and facilitators around the country will use the seven-step workbook to teach people in their communities the basics of starting a small service-based business.
She says, "I actually wrote and published the book (How to Make Money While You Look for a Job, Start a Very Small Business on a Shoestring, A Step-by-Step Workbook) the first time I was laid off after ten years at MCI, but I didn't know how to promote it. Now, I'm taking a course in online marketing while I look for a job, but I still couldn't get up the nerve to go public."
Buskirk found a book called, The Courage to Write by Ralph Keyes in a used bookstore. She says, "What a difference it made to find out how many authors are scared to death when they write." But she still put off updating the book.
She says, "I had conducted one interview to update the book, and a coworker wrote a great piece about his experience getting laid off where I worked, but I wanted to get a lot more content. And I really didn't have time."
Buskirk grew up on Air Force bases across the U.S. and now lives with her two youngest children and husband on a small farm in North Carolina. Her husband was laid off and, after unsuccessfully looking for a job in the nearby Research Triangle Park for a year, he recently accepted a position in Northern Virginia. He makes the five-hour commute every weekend. She says, "I was busy and still shy about getting the book out there, but then I read an article about baby boomers not having enough retirement savings. When you add job loss to that, it inspired me to do a search on 'increase suicide boomers.'
Buskirk says, "Of course I know there are other factors, but I hope the book helps someone. It's very encouraging". The book, which she self-published first using Booklocker.com and currently using CreateSpace.com, describes seven steps, starting with, "Step One: Realize You Can," to help others who are fearful of going out on a limb.
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