The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed The Only Personal Finance System for People with Not-So-Regular Jobs

by D'Agnese, Joseph; Kiernan, Denise

• ISBN13: 9780307453662
• ISBN10: 0307453669
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-02
• Publisher: Currency

Summary

We make our own hours, keep our own profits, chart our own way. We have things like gigs, contracts, clients, and assignments. All of us are working toward a dream: doing our own work, on our own time, on our own terms. We have no real boss, no corporate nameplate, no cubicle of our very own. We are the independent workforce. We are freelancers, self-employed entrepreneurs, part-timers, permalancers, temps, consultants, contract workers, and all-around go-getters. Some of us choose to work like this. Some of us have been given no choice in this world of mass layoffs and ever-shrinking benefits.

Author Biography

Joseph D'Agnese and Denise Kiernan are writers and journalists whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, Wired, Saveur, Discover, Ms. Magazine, and Vibe, among other publications.

Table of Contents

Introduction: How We Came to Write This Book	p. 1
Being Straight with Yourself
Cracking the Whip	p. 13
Getting Green and Dropping Hamiltons (Or, Where Did All My Money Go?)	p. 34
Understanding the Crushing Misery of Debt	p. 59
Spending Money, On Purpose.	p. 80
The Basics of the System
An Introduction to the System	p. 105
The Holy Trinity of Savings	p. 120
The Spending Account as a Funnel for Savings	p. 163
Putting It All Together	p. 184
Paying Off Debt	p. 205
Growing the Plan and Living the Dream
Growing the System	p. 233
Building Prosperity	p. 261
The Final Word on Financial Empowerment	p. 280
Appendix	p. 289
Acknowledgments	p. 295
Index	p. 297
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