Evaluate your job

Shorten the distance to travel

• Work in your neighborhood.
• Carpool.
• Work fewer days per week.
• Make fewer trips to work each week.
• Move to a branch or division closer to home.
• Interview with your company’s competitors near your home.
• Change jobs.

Become indispensable

• Evaluate the likelihood of job loss.
• Consider retraining.
• Work yourself into a position that is critical to your employer’s business.
• Be the only person who can do your job.
• Continue upgrading your training.
• Work in the food or water industries.
• Get certified/qualified for your supervisor’s job.

Plan new income sources

• Keep your resume current.
• Interview for new positions even if you plan to stay where you are.
• Keep your interview skills sharp.
• Network with others continually.
• Is your current job likely to continue in a crisis?
• Learn new skills and professions.
• Work for yourself.
• Consider growing and selling food specialty items.
• Consider ways to start your own business.
• Sell something you make.
• Evaluate skills and crafts that could turn into a job.

Work at home

• Reduce driving.
• Write off more expenses.
• Write off a home office.
• Write off equipment and trips.
• Stay with your family.
• Develop skills to sell.
• Become self reliant.

Consider moving to another country

• Decide on your priorities.
• Identify important concerns.
• Develop goals.
• Evaluate locations.
• Determine weather & fuel needs.
• Determine agriculture potential.
• Consider your family & friends.
• Evaluate job possibilities.
• Consider cost of living.
• Consider language.
• Determine the cost of housing.
• Evaluate the local economy and the inflation rate.
• Be clear about visas and citizenship.
• Visit many times.
• Do your homework well.
• Learn the local geography and climate.
• Evaluate specific homes to live in.
• Come to grips with the fact that you may never move back to the U.S.
• Be employed BEFORE relocating.
• Consider everything, again !