Just Finished First Mini-Retirement

[mooreao]

Hey everybody,

I just finished my first mini-retirement where I actually picked up the 4-hour workweek and read most of it.

I've spent the last month on the South Island of New Zealand. It was amazing to get away from winter and experience a southern hemisphere winter Christmas and New Years.

Spending this time away from work really wet my appetite to get out of my normal job to do this more often. The problem that I've found with the 4HWW is that it is mostly written for office type jobs (or at least seems to me that it is.) I'm a teacher so about 90% of the stuff in the book doesn't really pertain to my type of job. If any other teachers have been successful with the the stuff in the book, then I'd love to hear about it.

I'm currently living in London but I'm from the US and my fiance is from New Zealand (hence the trip there for Xmas) but am searching for the muse that would allow me to leave my job and travel from summer to summer, relaxing and seeing the rest of the world.

[centermez]

First of all- That sounds like a lot of fun!

Second- The book is kind of half and half. There's a lot of information for office employees because they need some good instruction to get out of the office- but as you pointed out, that's pretty difficult if you're a teacher.

What you could do, however, is create a muse. Become an entrepreneur. Take your expertise from teaching and turn it into a course of some sort maybe?

[mooreao]

Originally Posted by centermez

First of all- That sounds like a lot of fun!

Second- The book is kind of half and half. There's a lot of information for office employees because they need some good instruction to get out of the office- but as you pointed out, that's pretty difficult if you're a teacher.

What you could do, however, is create a muse. Become an entrepreneur. Take your expertise from teaching and turn it into a course of some sort maybe?

You're right. Unfortunately, public service jobs aren't usually ones that you can do remotely.

I'm focusing on the entrepreneur route and trying to think of different muses that I could create. Luckily I have a few other hobbies and ideas besides teaching to work with. Now the hard part is getting the ball rolling.

Also, have a BIG project that requires investors. Know of any websites where investors find projects to invest in?