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Step 4Get a green job and/or endeavor
Next we'll devote ourselves to get a ecologically sound job and/or endeavor. As explained in the intro's extra text-file, many people still target the most financially rewarding job but this approach will soon no longer be a good one (unless offcourse your name is Mad Max/The Postman and you don't mind living in an apocalypse). We may decide to start this endeavor by losing our present job (unless its an ecologically meaningful one). Next we'll either start living off of a minimum wage provided by the state for jobless people, search for a payed environmental job (which too are available at environmental organisations as Greenpeace, ...), volunteer (eg at Coral Cay, US Peace Corps, ...), ... We may also decide to get get specialised schooling to prepare for our job (which can be done at farms and homesteads as the Ecological Design Institute, It's not easy being green course center, AgriVenture, Centre for Alternative Technologies, Centro Integrado de Technologia Appropriada, or certain other appropriate technology learning centers, and ngo's. Finally, other options too can be considered as integration into a environmental monastery or other intentional community.
Depending on what we desire, we may browse trough several websites as VolunteerMatch and World Volunteer Web, ARC, Treehugger, ....
In our search for a job, we will think ahead and evaluate not only exactly what we would like as job, but also where(what location) we would like to execute it. This may sound no more than obvious, but all too often we let fear and exagerated dependance (eg on family, on "whats known", ...) stand in the way. We should however remind ourselves that it's our life and that we decide what to do with it. Just as Will Smith said (in The Pursuit of Happiness), if you want something, you go and get it! If not, we may not live our life out full and we will not perform well in our environmental job neither (which too is not good for our planet). Offcourse, we cannot know how life is to differ to each country, so we may opt to evaluate things steadily (eg by short volunteering trips or other (environmentally sound) non-permanent tryouts).
Depending on what we desire, we may browse trough several websites as VolunteerMatch and World Volunteer Web, ARC, Treehugger, ....
In our search for a job, we will think ahead and evaluate not only exactly what we would like as job, but also where(what location) we would like to execute it. This may sound no more than obvious, but all too often we let fear and exagerated dependance (eg on family, on "whats known", ...) stand in the way. We should however remind ourselves that it's our life and that we decide what to do with it. Just as Will Smith said (in The Pursuit of Happiness), if you want something, you go and get it! If not, we may not live our life out full and we will not perform well in our environmental job neither (which too is not good for our planet). Offcourse, we cannot know how life is to differ to each country, so we may opt to evaluate things steadily (eg by short volunteering trips or other (environmentally sound) non-permanent tryouts).
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Nov 10, 2009. 11:45 PManniebananie
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I have been a bit dense recently. I am just wondering what you meant by "environmental monastery"? I checked the link, and I wasn't sure exactly what you meant.
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