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job opportunities

Instead of, or in addition to, a scholarship, you may want to work at a part-time job during your Dream House stay. Our resource coordinator may be able to help you find a job. Of course, many employers don't like to hire people for just 10 weeks at a time, so if you're thinking of working during your Dream, you may want to join the Dream House for two or more consecutive sessions. You may be able to earn some or all of your fee by working at a fast food joint, a health food store or co-op, a local retail business, at an office, etc. Or start your own business designing web pages or babysitting or tutoring. If you want to get hired—either by an employer or by clients—you may benefit from bringing a resume and letters of recommendation from former employers or other adults who can vouch for you—employers, volunteer supervisors, family friends, mentors, or teachers.

Eventually, the Dream House may open a business--such as a bed and breakfast inn--and hire members to work at it. But this probably won't happen during our first few sessions.

fundraising

The fundraising methods available to determined and gutsy Not Back to School Campers are available to determined and gutsy Dreamers too:

Option #1: After you register, you can sell copies of Grace’s books The Teenage Liberation Handbook, Real Lives, and/or Freedom Challenge, to friends, relatives, school friends, local homeschoolers, whoever. (A particularly good place to sell them is at homeschooling conferences or other homeschooling events.) You earn approximately 35%, or $5.95-$6.65, for each copy. Sell 100 copies and you earn about $600-$660.

Option #2: Hold a Genius Tribe Book Fair. This means you pass out Genius Tribe catalogs to everybody you know and their cousins and stepfathers, beg them to order books, give them a deadline, collect and tally their orders ($300 minimum), and mail all orders in together. You then receive the books, sort the orders, and distribute them (or get everyone to meet you to pick them up). In exchange, you earn 10% of the total price of all items ordered. You have to sell more books to earn the same amount of money as in option #1, but your friends/customers have hundreds of great books to choose from. And they don’t even have to be interested in unschooling to find books they’ll like. Catalogs may be in short supply, so contact us ASAP if you’re interested.

If you want more info on either or both of these fundraising options, please contact us and be sure to say that you’re part of the Dream House.

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Last modified: May 19, 2000