PTO, Portable Trades & Occupations

By Peter Trevellian

How would you like to live anywhere you want, have all the fun you want, and make all the money you want--all at the same time? The author of this inspiring book has been doing just this for at least... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0953022102
• ISBN13: 9780953022106
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: PT Shamrock Limited
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Really helped me!

Being from a poor country spending US$100 for a book is nearly one month's salary and a major investment. I made the investment. PTO has changed my life for the better. Not only did it give me idea's, but more important motivated me into action.I now earn 20 times what the average wage earner in my country makes, drive a new car and have lots of girlfriends! The publisher (PT Shamrock) has been very helpful and even sends me a free newsletter with updates and very useful information.A big thank you! You helped me to help myself for the better!

Contains indeed some realistic money-making ideas

This book is very unusual in two respects. For the first, the authors don't moralize. You are not told that the only way of achieving something and being successful is by loving everybody and unselfishly serving other people. No, the chances are that you feel your own morality challenged sometimes. For the second (please pay attention now!), this book really describes some ways to make money that are realistic. Of course, people are different but I found several ideas that might actually work for me, and I'm not a native English speaker and live in a rather under-developed country, thus not having many possibilities the authors of the book had. The book covers much more than the traditional self employment: it includes lucrative government jobs and the occupation of an independent Christian missionary(!).From the negative side, the horrendous amount of typos should not remain unmentioned. When a book sells for 100 dollars a copy, it should be expected that the author would at the very least bother to re-read his work for a second time, and give it to someone else to proofread. If even I can notice tens of obvious, ridiculous typos without actually looking for them, there is something rotten at the book company.Another, a very serious flaw are some passages where the authors forget themselves to rant page after page about how bad the world is and what terrifying methods the US government is using to rob productive people. First, these passages are very depressing to read, second, they are absolutely unnecessary, because I think that a person who 1) succeeds to find out that there is such a book as PTO; 2) agrees to pay a hundred dollars for it; doesn't need to be convinced that the government sucks.I'd also like to warn you from dealing with a book seller called PT Shamrock. They promise you an "iron clad money back guarantee". This is a lie. You must have a hell of a luck to ever see your money again. (I did, thank God.)