MIDDLE-CLASS LIFEBOAT

Includes:

• Over 50 financially secure careers, many of which can be done at home, including profiles of cutting-edge careers like tabletop manufacturing, patient champion and post-corporate career coaching, as well as dependable local services, nichable virtual products and emerging green careers
• Nine innovative lifestyle choices for increasing satisfaction while lowering the cost of living, including best small towns, moving abroad, living on the road, at sea or off-the-grid, as well as four scenarios for turning city life into Americas most popular lifestyle choice
• Nine cashless ways to extend your income, work less and live more simply, including gifting, barter, local exchanges, co-ops, and local currency.
• Plus practical strategies for:
  - Eliminating all the stuff that drags you down
  - Stay financially afloat whether the economy is up or down
  - Saving money and living more energy efficiently
  - Pros & cons for a rich array of choices, inspiring stories, specific how-to's along with 100's of resources

What Readers Say:

"The Edwards' goal is to help readers prepare effectively to ride "the waves of a sea change." More like a tsunami, it seems to me!  Their book is designed to assist middle-class folk in meeting the multiple challenges "as we transition (away) from a job-based corporate economy..."  This book is a practical guide to get us safely through that treacherous gap.

Linda Buzzell -- Career Counselor in Hope Dance Magazine

"....a pragmatic book that whenever possible breaks down into bite-sized chunks the sometimes-intimidating ideas and activities geared toward taking back some control of your own life.   Jam-packed with resourceful tidbits, Middle-Class Lifeboat reads like a reference book of baby steps toward greater satisfaction and ambitious life altering experiments.  The Learn More sections at the end of every chapter are divine.

-- Sentient Citizen Book Review