Timesonline got an interesting article about people with higher education performing lower level jobs as a way to stay afloat during the crisis and even enjoying life more in the process. It’s called Forget the PhD and become a mechanic and it talks about people leaving the corporate America to do “more basic jobs”.
It starts with the story of Matthew Crawford, who has a PhD in political philosophy, gave up his job as executive director of a Washington think tank to start his own business as a mechanic of vintage motorcycles.
Then I’ve read this LA TImes article For backyard-farmer companies, business is bountiful, which tells the story of Todd Lininger, who co-founded Farmscape in 2008, walks through a garden patch in the backyard of a client’s home in Claremont. The company’s revenue jumped $22,000 this year, to $54,000.
So is an old school job better to get over the crisis?
