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Work at Home

Joan Stewart — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:45:51 +0000

In the first six months all I had achieved was a Resume for obtaining online work. A business plan (which has been altered on numerous occasions) and absolutely no idea how to go about setting up! In fact I didn’t even know what I was trying to achieve. It is similar to riding an [...]

Business

Joan Stewart — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:39:02 +0000

My business venture is to learn online and teach what I have discovered.

There are many pitfalls you “surf” into, without being any the wiser. It takes a lot of research, before you find the genuine people who can teach you the ropes, without blatantly ripping you off, and believe you me there are [...]

Durban

Joan Stewart — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:34:02 +0000

During 1979 we decided to move away from the hustle and bustle of Johannesburg and locate on the coast, the salary drop was drastic, greater than one third of our earnings, the difference remains approximately the same to-date. At that time I had been employed within secretarial and administration, Hubby is a Photolithographer by [...]

Teenager, Employment and Marriage

Joan Stewart — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:01:22 +0000

We were sadly aware of apartheid, but had no control of it. Our Church Guild (Youth) ‘sneaked’ into Dobsonville (a ‘Black’ township) to have meetings with fellow worshipers. A neighbouring town we visited under the guise of dark to worship together with Coloured folk and visit the elderly, hiding from emerging gangs, resident in [...]

Growing up

Joan Stewart — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:36:53 +0000

Johannesburg 1955 January 21st my parents first daughter. We lived as a family of two brothers and two sisters on the West Rand, situated just outside of Johannesburg. Being four children we endeavoured to drive our parents ‘nuts’, as do all children.

The house we lived in was next to open park [...]