Finding Part-Time Work

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September/October 1973
By Dan Bentley 
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It's often a good idea to volunteer assistance, too. Many times I've offered to help a neighbor butcher, just so I could learn and get the experience I needed to do the job myself ... and, even though I didn't expect it, I always came home with an armload of fresh meat.

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This swapping of labor for products can also work for you, but the other way around. If you've purchased a farm that has good hayland and you lack the necessary harvesting equipment, contact a neighbor and ask if he'll put your crop up "on shares". This simply means that you furnish the hay, he furnishes the machinery and you each take half the yield. Store your portion, using or keeping what you need, and sell your surplus in the late winter when baled hay brings its best price.

Whether the payment is money or goods, part-time work is available al most everywhere. The jobs just take ferreting out. I hope the few examples I've mentioned will be of help.

I've always tried everything that was offered me, so that I could find what I liked to do ... and I've always looked for a variety of jobs so that I would never become dependent on a single type of work for an income. In this way, if one source dried up there were always others to keep me going.

You won't get rich working at odd jobs, but I've always kept in mind the fact that becoming wealthy wasn't my purpose anyway. I needed the cash, true ... but most of all I needed the experience and knowledge I've received from the variety of positions I've held. Also, I've deliberately gone easy on part-time work so I could concentrate on wildcrafting ... the making of money from products gathered from wild land. To my mind, that's the most interesting endeavor of all.

Or, as the fellow who used to live along the Avon said: "Poor and content is rich, and rich enough."

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