Americans talk about their jobs

Hello all and let me introduce you to Michelle Passoff who had worked in the particularly stressful world of PR until, turning forty, she decided that she desperately needed a change of scene.

So she asked herself the big question- What kind of business does the world need today?

The answer, which sprang to her mind, was that the world is in need of clutter consultants. So, she has become one and a really famous one on top of that, consulting private clients on ways of getting rid of their memorabilia.

Passoff even wrote a book on the topic of clutter management entitled "Lighten Up! Free Yourself from Clutter" which readers on amazon.com describe as inspirational and life-changing.

Anyway, let's move on to the description of Passoff's working strategy for each hour of which she charges 75 dollars. First, she gives the client homework where he/she has to contemplate about his/her goals. Bearing in mind the goal which is most crucial to the client at a certain time, the house is freed from clutter.

What's more, she even reveals to each and every single client the nine principles for cleaning clutter:


1. Handle one item at a time
2. Create a path for everything
3. Once you've cleaned an area, don't stow away clutter there anymore
4. Remember that like-kind things go together
5. Take breaks
6. Be thorough in cleaning one area at a time
7. Dispose of things with some ceremony
8. Don't be afraid of the empty space your cleaning has created
9. Congratulate yourself when you make progress

What I could deduce from the text is the fact that Passoff is really keen to help people who need her and satisfied with her job both professionally and personally. However, although clutter consulting is gathering momentum as a business niche in the USA, teaching people the basic skills of organizing, it is beyond me why people would pay extortionate sums of money to a perfect stranger so as to get something done they could easily do by themselves.
I guess, this is the way the world goes nowadays where people cannot even deal with their own chores by themselves, let alone with some more monumental problem.

If you wish to read more about clutter consulting, visit these two sites:
http://www.theclutterconsultants.com/pages/about.htm

http://working.canada.com/toronto/resources/career/atoz/story.html?s_id=zpbHOU3Kj4X24IvnMKqlSA2L6uIRLMkCIvESNJK7OemagRtW4VoBIQ%3D%3D