{"id":15341,"date":"2013-01-29T09:28:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15341"},"modified":"2013-01-29T09:28:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:28:55","slug":"staying-home-to-create-your-green-dream-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/staying-home-to-create-your-green-dream-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying Home to Create Your Green Dream Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/work-at-home-desk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15342\" title=\"work at home desk\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/work-at-home-desk.jpg\" alt=\"work at home desk with cat\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/work-at-home-desk.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/work-at-home-desk-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does your job work for you? Does it meet your needs for physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual well-being? Most of us spend most of our waking hours at our jobs, thinking about our jobs, and otherwise occupied with our jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parentcoaching.org\">Parent coaching<\/a> is my dream job. Yet I have not always known this is the work I wanted to do. It took me looking at four different aspects of my life \u2013 physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual, or <strong>PIES<\/strong> \u2013 and how parent coaching met my needs in each category to notice how well this work fit the description of my dream job. In this article, I offer you the PIES model, show you how I applied it to my work, and offer some tips to help you.<\/p>\n<h3>The Physical Environment<\/h3>\n<p>I am physically safe and comfortable while at work. I do not need to drive a car and can walk to the services I need. I need to be aware of taking stretch breaks to avoid eye strain and aching joints from sitting at the computer. Here are a few specifics about the physical success of my business.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a viable business model that can generate enough paying clients for me to more than support my family.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t have to drive anywhere. I am at a lower risk for accidents and I don\u2019t have the stress on my body of <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2011\/05\/07\/bike-month-best-bike-for-bicycle-commuting\/\">commuting<\/a>, sitting in traffic, or worrying about being late due to accidents or car trouble. Physically there is also significant savings associated with not needing money for a car, insurance, gas, and maintenance. The lower overhead means that my business can take longer to get established or generate fewer clients and still be financially viable.<\/li>\n<li>There is little to no infrastructure associated with my business. The ongoing costs are for phone and internet that I would most likely have anyway. This lowers overhead and also means that the raw materials for my business are not a drain on the environment through their shipping and manufacture. This lower overhead meets not only my physical, but also my spiritual, emotional, and intellectual needs for sustainable work.<\/li>\n<li>My desk is made from retasked oak wood pallets. They are <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2012\/09\/salvaged-wood-home-decor\/\">a waste product<\/a> of a nearby shipping company. My husband built two pallets into a desk for me. It is lovely, handmade, and nearly free since my husband\u2019s time was a donation of love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does your job meet your need for physical safety? Does your work support your physical body with money for food, shelter, and warmth? How do you treat your body while you are at work? What is hard on your body about your work? What is healthy?<\/p>\n<h3>The Intellectual Stimulation<\/h3>\n<p>I love to think. Using my mind in creative, deep, and healing ways is a joy to me. Writing and working with clients both engage my mind. I love owning my own business and getting to wear many different hats. Creative development, marketing, web design, and coaching are just a few of my jobs. I get to do the work and I get to ask for help when I need it. Here are a few more specifics I love about how parent coaching engages my mind.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I get to talk and connect with others. I love doing this. My mind cannot go on autopilot but instead needs to stay alert and engaged with each client.<\/li>\n<li>My mind is a servant working in conjunction with my intuition and experience. I like using my intelligence and keeping it very grounded in the real world and connected to my emotional intelligence and intuition.<\/li>\n<li>The work challenges me to learn and grow. Through the coaching I do with other parents, my own parenting is illuminated and grown.<\/li>\n<li>I am constantly learning new skills and being mindful in my own life in order to be a more effective parent coach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How does your job meet your need for intellectual stimulation? Is your mind happy while you are at work? What really engages your mind and imagination?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next page:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2013\/01\/staying-home-to-create-your-green-dream-job\/2\/\">the Emotional and Spiritual Benefits<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chiotsrun\/4465205933\/\">Chiot&#8217;s Run<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15343\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/wearing-many-hats-working-at-home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15343\" title=\"wearing many hats working at home\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/wearing-many-hats-working-at-home.jpg\" alt=\"the home-based business person wears many hats\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/wearing-many-hats-working-at-home.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/wearing-many-hats-working-at-home-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Running a home-based business involves wearing many hats&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>The Emotional Rewards<\/h3>\n<p>Emotionally, Parent Coaching is very satisfying to me. It feeds me on so many levels. Each bullet point of this article has a component of emotional satisfaction. Here is the condensed list.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I get to help people. Being of service is a key component to who I am. I help people understand themselves and stop passing on their own wounds and self-sabotaging habit to their children.<\/li>\n<li>My girls and I have the ability to touch base with each other throughout the day. I can homeschool, have adventures, learning, and play with my girls in the morning and still get 5 hours of work in the afternoon. Especially since my children are still young, it satisfies me emotionally to be so connected with them in their daily lives.<\/li>\n<li>I am creating this business with the help of a good friend. It is important to me to share not just fun social activities but also productive work time with friends and life-partners.<\/li>\n<li>I am building this business within an ecovillage community. I get to walk out my door and see people I like and love on a daily basis. By having a geographically independent business I am able to live in this wonderful community where I get to learn to partner dance, share in a weekly women\u2019s circle, sing in song circle, join hands before sharing meals, and share expensive infrastructure like kitchens and showers. I could not live here if I was tied to a business that required me to meet with people face to face.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What does emotional happiness and balance look like to you? Does your work encourage a healthy balance of emotional expression? Do you love what you do?<\/p>\n<h3>The Spiritual Benefits<\/h3>\n<p>I believe that through helping parents understand themselves better and parent better, I am helping to create a more peaceful world.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I get to help the world be a better place. When parents pass on fewer of their wounds and are able to help their children shine then we build a more sustainable world. Not only are we happier, but we don\u2019t have to wound ourselves, others, and the earth when we act out of our own pain. We are able to be lights of healing in the world rather than spreaders of pain and more trauma. When we aren\u2019t so busy ignoring, repressing, feeding, or denying our own pain, we have room for empathy for the earth and for other people and creatures. We don\u2019t do the same acts of environmental degradation because our empathy has not been so stunted and shut down.<\/li>\n<li>I love to be of service and to help people have the experience that their worlds make more sense and that they can have both control of and surrender to their destinies.<\/li>\n<li>The green aspects of this work make it more sustainable. The electricity I use comes from photovoltaics with grid intertie. The heat for my home comes from passive solar and carbon-neutral wood heat. Both of these things help with reducing <a href=\"http:\/\/acoolerclimate.com\">global warming<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to work and live at Dancing Rabbit satisfies a spiritual need for interconnectedness in the daily lives of my fellow human beings, with the land, and with natural resources. The geographic independence of my work allows me to live in a location that nourishes my spirit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The best things about this work fall into all four categories. For instance, the physical generation of electricity from photovoltaics and heat from passive solar and wood feels very emotionally satisfying and safe as it meets my intellectual need for intelligent design and my spiritual need for respecting the earth and the interconnectedness of all beings.<\/p>\n<p>What does spiritual health look like to you? Does your work take you closer to or farther away from your connection to a divine energy? Do you feel more or less connected with your own sense of purpose and life-goals through your work?<\/p>\n<p><em>Kassandra Brown is looking forward to spring, gardening, and hearing from you. She works with clients over Skype and phone from her home at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingrabbit.org\/\">Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paulm\/321378809\/\">Paul Mayne<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think working from home might be a good fit for you? 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