The 4 Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
“I am the mother of two and four year old little girls. And I am a part-time working professional. And I was actually fortunate enough to be allowed to go from my full-time, 40-hour job to 24 hours. But, the way that worked out was it felt like I was trying to squeeze a 40-hour job into 24-hours. I was constantly stressed and even though I was at home, I was thinking about work. I’d wake up in the middle of the night. And I bought this book really in desperation to try and find some balance for my work life and my home life. And it has helped me a great deal.
His basic premise is rather than working for say 40 years of your life and then not working for 20 years of your life, to work in spurts and then take what he calls “mini-retirements.” Say a couple months here, couple months there. And he has you define what is most essential in your life. He’s often talking about what are the 20% of the things in your life that get you 80% of your satisfaction.
There’s a little bit of an attitude like why wouldn’t you do this? You’d almost be dumb if you didn’t do this. And I don’t appreciate that attitude necessarily, because we certainly need service workers. We need actual people to build buildings and show up at physical locations. Not all jobs can be telecommuted.
If you are somebody who’s computer literate and if you are looking for ways to perhaps work at home, this is a good book for you. I give it four stars.”
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