Money Talk Daily

It’s difficult to get rich if you’re working. Your time is consumed slaving for someone else and that means you have no time to create your own fortune.If you’re laid off, you have an advantage.  First, you have some time to think.  You have time to plan.Moreover, you have time to digest that the reason you’re laid off is that you’ve been barking up the wrong tree and what you’ve been doing the last ten years will never get you rich.If you’ve been fired as an administrative assistant, the dumbest thing you can do is pursue jobs as an administrative assistant.  Why apply for a job that got you laid off in the first place and had no chance of having you get rich?

Realize that the reason you don’t have a job is that people don’t need what you offer!  I don’t say this to make you feel bad, I say this to tell you that it’s time you offered what people want.  I see lots of hard luck stories on TV and in the newspaper.People out of work because no one needs what they offer and these people don’t offer what others will pay for.  Would now be a good idea to start offering what people want so that you can always make money and get paid and get on the road to get rich?

In a minute, I will explain what others are always willing to have.But to begin with, you need to know that you can learn a new skill.  You do not learn new skills by going to school.I see thousands of unemployed people going to school to learn a new skill—a new skill that no one needs in a weak economy!The skills that have true worth are not offered in colleges or vocational schools.All of these classes have benefit ONLY if a business will hire you. It’s much better if you don’t need anyone to hire you.  It’s much better if you know how to get rich on your own or if you have a skill that people will ALWAYS hire no matter what the economy.
When I go to my job, I see this guy pushing a trash can on wheels and in the garbage can are all the tools to wash windows. If you put this guy in a suit, he could easily be a corporate vice president and I would not be surprised if he lost his job at such a position.  But does he stupidly apply for more jobs as a corporate vice president so that the same thing would happen to him again, so that he could get laid off again and repeat the cycle of being at the affect of the economy or another person’s business?  You can’t get rich that way and this guy knows it.  Anyway, this guy goes from store to store downtown, and offers the business owner to wash windows.  I am certain that he earns $200+ per day as there are thousands of stores in the downtown and if he charges a small fee (e (e.g. $15 to $25), he gets plenty of business. He may not realize it but at least he is on the path to get rich.

He won’t get rich cleaning windows but let’s see what can occur.He asks each business owner if they want to have him come back and wash the windows in 2 weeks.  Enough store owners say yes.So now, he hires an unemployed guy for $10 an hour and has him wash the windows for the retail stores that want their windows to be cleaned every 2 weeks.Our entrepreneur continues to visit new stores and get more new accounts and in a short while, has four others working for him and is making $100,000 a year and will never, ever be at the mercy of anyone.He will never be laid off. And he can grow his business as large as he wants because he can go to the next town and replicate this success. If at some time in the future there is no desire for window cleaning, then he will clean toilets or clean homes or paint or do whatever it is that others desire.  Does that make a lot more sense—to offer people what they want rather than to keep sending out your resume offering businesses what they DON’T want?Start thinking of yourself not as an administrative assistant or a loan processor or an elementary school teacher or whatever it is you got laid off from, but as a provider of things and services that people want. Let me tell you what people want.

If you happen to have any skill at fixing things, great.  People always need stuff fixed in their house or business and everyone they call is unreliable. You could be the first reliable fix-it person.You would quickly get called over and over.The last worker I hired to repair stuff in my office showed up late, left with tasks incomplete and was generally inefficient.Will I telephone him in the future?  No.  Will I have a need to have things fixed?  Yes.

Are you a people person?  Then go take the Sandler Training and learn how to sell.  If you can sell you will always have work and can easily get rich.You can walk into any business, even in this poor economy and tell the business owner you will sell their products and services and be paid commission only.Plenty of business owners will retain you immediately.  If you can REALLY sell, a skill that even most sales people don’t have, you will have money in your pocket every day.Want to make more?  Just sell items that are more expensive and earn larger commission checks.
I am writing this on December 23.  In the next 2 days, lots of people will be driving to their relative’s house for the holidays.  If you purchase $100 of flowers down at the flower mart in the morning and stand at a busy intersection, you could easily sell those flowers for $500.  People will see you and think “we should bring some flowers to Aunt Martha.”  Just look around and ask yourself “what do people want?” The more answers you have for that question, the more opportunities to get rich and you can leave your old life of unemployment behind.
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