Being Unemployed Provides the Opportunity to Get Rich
It’s difficult to get rich if you’re all day at a job. Your time is consumed slaving for someone else and that means you have no time to create your own fortune.If you’re unemployed, you have an advantage. First, you have some time to think. You have time to plan.Most importantly, you have time to realize that the reason you’re unemployed is that you’ve been barking up the wrong tree and what you’ve been doing the last 10 years will never get you rich.If you’ve been fired as an administrative assistant, the a foolish thing to 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 position is that businesses do not need what you offer!I don’t say this to make you feel sad, I say this to tell you that it’s time you offered what others 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 moment, I will share with you what others are always willing to pay for.But first, you need to realize 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 value are not taught in colleges or vocational schools. All of these classes have value ONLY if someone will hire you. It’s far 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 work, I see this guy pushing a garbage can on wheels and in the garbage can are all the items to clean 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 foolishly apply for more jobs as a corporate pawn so that the same thing would recur, so that he could get laid off again and repeat the mistake of being at the effect 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 sure that he earns 0+ per day as there are thousands of stores in the city center and if he asks a small fee (e.g. to ), he gets plenty of business. He may not realize it but at minimum he is on the path to get rich.
He won’t get rich washing windows but let's see what can happen. He asks each store owner if they would like to have him come back and wash the windows in two weeks. Enough store owners say yes. So now, he hires an unemployed guy for an hour and has him wash the windows for the stores that want their windows washed every two weeks.Our business operator continues to visit more stores and get more new jobs and in a short while, has 4 people working for him and is making 0,000 a year and will never, ever be at the mercy of anyone.He will not 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 date in the future there is no desire for window washing, then he will clean bathrooms or clean homes or paint or do whatever it is that others want. 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 perceiving yourself not as an administrative assistant or a loan processor or an elementary school teacher or whatever it is you got terminated 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 phoned over and over. The last guy I hired to fix stuff in my office showed up late, left with work undone and was generally inefficient. Will I call him again? 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 them you will see their products and services and be paid commission only.Plenty of business owners will retain you in a flash.If you can REALLY sell, a know-how that even most sales professionals don’t have, you will have money in your pocket all the time.Want to earn more?Just sell items that cost more 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 buy 0 of flowers down at the flower mart in the morning and stand at a busy intersection, you could easily market those flowers for 0. 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 dependency behind.
If you liked this article and are ready for the next step, read Five Ways to Get Rich.
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