or you aren't alone in your craziness!! I did it, I left my corporate job that was killing me slowly. It was very hard, many changes and sacrifices must be made. But it can be done. I've been 'free' for almost two years and I've never looked back. Granted my husband still works, but I was the primary breadwinner. No more fancy house but we have everything we need, and lots of chickens it can be done.
Here is a website that I paruse about once a month. http://www.landwatch.com/ You can key in your acreage house and price requirements.... as well as the use of the land. Weather its for farming or ranching.... When i find something i am interested in I look up the realtor that has that listing just to see what they have in the same areas.... Very interesting process...
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I to love the El Cajon EDD office, I used their office when i was last looking 13 years ago.
Corporate america likes to lay people off as it shows a quick lowering of the overhead and usually takes longer for the slack to get noticed.
We've had 3 or 4 or 5 rounds of lay off - i can't even remember, how i manged to survive them? I work day and night, hate it, don't get much sleep, and I want to spend more time on my mini farm with my family (slice of paradise). Sadly there is no money in Chickens.....
I dream of shooting wedding photos - everyone is so happy at weddings and I love being around all the happiness. I have done the photos for 3 wedding and i did like it but I'm a perfectionist and the after editing is very time consuming. Hard to do with the farm as a spare hobby.
Another dream would be designing lights - i love chandeliers. Solar light are my new design fun.
Or opening an Esty shop to sell crafts, i know when i was looking for things like the paper craft banners for my daughters mermaid theme 5th birthday, most of them were 4 or 5 weeks out to complete orders. If you like to do that type of thing with paper crafts. I make a ton of crafts and usually give them away to all my girlfriends as I'll have to many of the same type thing. People come to buy a chicken sometimes they go home with a rock with a transferred imagine or word, But that was last months passion, Currently I'm all into old signs, flour sack towel transfers and lace crowns and solar mason jars.
Heck i could do all of them and have a farm co-op and prune trees or give lessons... or anything like that.
I say figure out what YOU LIKE TO DO- not what pays the best and then learn to make that work.
As for me, I'm planing on getting pregnant in a few months and them staying home and hopefully doing more of what i never had time to before like planning and decorating the most awesome B-day party's.... Kind of tired of all the stress and worry and not seeing my family (they're asleep when i get home) I want to start doing unschooling.
Sorry just my 2 cents that no one asked for. I'm just really, really over corporate america.....If i didn't have such great benefits... I've attached some photos of this weeks crafts, i don't sleep much, still. My husband says I'm crazy so I'm sorry if I've dropped my craziness bomb as i seem to be good at that.
