Home Business Multi-Skilling

We sometimes take it for granted that working a home based business requires multi-skilling, the ability to do a lot of different tasks.

It came home to me yesterday when I visited a couple who have built their own house on a rocky 200 acres just out of town.

He's in the Air Force, she ran a bridal shop and now works in an office. Yet they have designed and built their entire property.

Skills such as astro navigation to design wind sheer baffles to split the gales and leave their roof intact, heat sinks above the garage, stunning design and decor, holes in three walls to allow light right across the house interior, espalier grape and fruit trees, an automated fowlhouse, road building and neighbor negotiation ...

Not to mention their own golf course, bocce court, fishpond, fish-smoker, herb garden, furniture making ...

Now that's home-based multi-skilling!