HOW TO QUIT YOUR JOB

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April/May 2000
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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MOTHER: In your experience, how much money can the average person live on and be happy?

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MF: Wow.. .well of course there are about a million different answers to that question. Those who love travel ...those who have a gizmo fascination ...they are going to need more money than a simple homebody. I've found, though, that something on the order of, say, $5,000 to $7,000 of disposable, after-bills income per year seems to work, provided that you can arrange a good, inexpensive home.

MOTHER: One of the words that's thrown at working people most often is retirement. What provisions can you make for your older years on $7,000?

MF: We have put away a little bit of money in IRAs. Nothing like what the conventional financial advisers would probably advise. But then "un-jobbing" has at its core the adoption of a different standard of work and retirement. As for me, I can't imagine that I will ever retire. Or maybe I've already retired [laughs]. In other words, I'm going to continue to work for things I believe in as long as I have the capacity to. Of course, given that, I cannot plan for every possible scenario that spells trouble. But nobody else can, either. If you pick work that you love, you may well loathe the very thought of retirement in the first place. That's the funny thing about happiness.

To get a copy of Un-Jobbing: The Adult Liberation Handbook, call MOTHER'S Bookshelf at 1-800-888-9098 and ask for book number MEB287.

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