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Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career

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"As a new mom, I am in a situation where I am evaluating part-time work as an option. Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career opened my eyes to some alternatives to a full-time job and gave me several ideas how to pursue this lifestyle. I especially enjoyed Chapter 3, the case study of Cynthia Long, a professional Project Manager. Reading about her made me think this would be a good fit for me, given my existing skills."

- Danielle Cotey, Cisco Systems

I had the pleasure of reading Karen's book Full-time Woman Part-Time Career and would highly recommend that any woman who is thinking about starting a business in any field pick up this book. Karen helps you to understand what you need to know and do to create a flexible business that fits your life and family. Everyone's life and family are different so your plan needs to be different in order for you to be a success. This book specifically covers women with small children, or who want to start a business before they have their children in order to be home for the children they will have. Just like a business plan or marketing plan, this is a book that will help you create a stay at home and work for yourself plan that can almost guarantee your success! This is a book you will refer back to again and again.

For all women who would like to work from home and for those who are struggling. Karen full of great ideas and wisdom. It is truly an inspiring book to feel like "I can do this and succeed!" Must read for any home based business or the woman who wants the part-time careerFull-Time Woman, Part-Time Career

This is a powerful book. I use it daily as a resource. I recently attended the author's "Start Your Own Part-Time Business" workshop, with the intention of opening my own business. I am now further along that path, and everything we did in the workshop helped me get to where I am now. I keep going back to Karen's book and I use the workshop materials all of the time.

As a man who was recently laid off with the opportunity to change my career , I found Full Time Woman, Part-Time Career to be an extremely valuable resource. I am looking for a more flexible environment where I am not tied to a desk all of the time and, since my wife and I are planning to have children soon, I want be able to spend more time with them. This book gave me many ideas and has given me some direction for my new career.

The initial time commitment and frustrations of starting a business had all but dashed my dream of a flexible, balanced life. Then I read Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career. The practical advice and real-life stories in Karen Terry's book gave me the encouragement to regroup and move forward. One year later my business is fulfilling my goal of helping couples start their own family while comfortably balancing the needs of my own. It can be done, and Karen's book can help show you how.

Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career- The Professional Woman's Guide to Building a Flexible Business by Karen Terry, is a descriptively definitive book describing the difficulties in business which a woman may well encounter after having children, and the even greater struggle with finding a career position after rejoining the world of work outside the home. Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career greatly fortifies the understanding that a woman must have while starting up work again after bearing a child, as well as how to coordinate raising children and running a business with the agility to, in essence, balance and support one-another in unison. A "must read" for the newly mothering parent, Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career offers a perfect angle from which to approach a perfectly desirable spectra of businesses.

I just finished reading "Full-Time Woman Part-Time Career" and I must say what a great book. Karen has a direct but caring way of telling potential woman entrepreneurs what it takes to get started. This book includes multiple case studies about successful women entrepreneurs and I really enjoyed learning more about what they think worked and what didn't. Thanks Karen for this fabulous book!

Listen up! This book is a valuable resource to any business person, not just women!

Admit it; you have sat around dreaming about being your own boss! Hanging out your own shingle and chancing it out on your own, right? If so, this is a great reality check and resource guide to the "real" pros and cons of starting your own business. Whether you are looking to go part time or full bore, you will get solid advice on the key issues you will face along the way. The author leads you through; asking yourself the tough questions, selling yourself, freelance or part-time, public speaking, professional behavior and the ups and downs of working from home. I really liked the use of case studies to drive home the messages.

Well worth your time and money.

Reviewed by Kornelia Longoria for Reader Views (2/07)

How many of us have wanted to stay at home with our children and bring a steady income at the same time? How many women hate working at their current job and moving nowhere and feeling like a slave to the system? How many women would just want to take their career in their own hands and start a business on their own?

"Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career" by Karen Steede Terry is a comprehensive guide to starting your own business that is not only successful but most importantly, fits your personality, your lifestyle and your own expectations. The author divides the book into short chapters focusing on the very basis of making it work on your own. From the very beginning of the book, she helps us see what it takes to start your own business and what kind of qualities are essential in doing that. She gives a lot of examples and even samples of conversation starters to promote your business and to get through to a wider range of potential customers. She goes through the most essential subjects, such as the start-up cost, setting up the office, writing business plans and whether you should incorporate or not. She explains it all in a very clear and comprehensive way, making it easier for us to make the right decisions that would benefit us in the best way. The author devotes a big part of the book to advertising your business, getting and maintaining customers and growing your business bigger and more successful. She also expands certain types of businesses, such as professional coaching, freelance writing, teaching software computer classes and public speaking, where the reader can find much more detail and tips for starting one of these businesses. Finally, the end of the book consists of very valuable appendix, where we can find all kinds of addresses and phone numbers to business registration agencies, networking organizations, franchise opportunities etc.

I really liked the fact that the book was addressed directly and solely to women. The author knows exactly what kind of obstacles women encounter in starting their own business and how to work to overcome them. The language is very clear, comprehensive and to the point. "Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career" is definitely a book to be read if you consider starting your own business.

Received book free of charge.