It’s hard to get rich if you’re working. Your precious time is exhausted slaving for someone else and that means you have no time to develop 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 laid off as an administrative assistant, the dumbest thing you can do is apply for 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 others will pay for.  I see lots of hard luck stories on TV and in the newspaper.People are out of work because no business desires what they provide and these people do not offer what businesses will buy.  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 detail 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 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 office, I see this guy pushing a garbage 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 pawn so that the same thing would happen to him again, so that he could get laid off again and repeat the misfortune of being at the effect of the economic situation 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 in the central business district, and offers the business proprietor to wash windows.  I am certain that he earns 0+ per day as there are thousands of stores in the downtown and if he charges a small fee (e (e.g. to ), he gets plenty of business. He may not know it but at least he is on the road to get rich.

He won’t get rich washing windows but watch what can happen.He asks each business owner if they would like to have him come back and clean the windows in 2 weeks.  Enough store owners say yes.So now, he gives work to an unemployed guy for ten dollars an hour and has him wash the windows for the stores that want their windows to be cleaned every 2 weeks.Our entrepreneur continues to visit more stores and get more new accounts and in a short while, has four people working for him and is earning 0,000 a year and will never, ever be enslaved by anyone.He will not be unemployed. 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 demand for window washing, then he will clean toilets or clean houses or paint or do whatever it is that people 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 positioning 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 labor that others want. Let me tell you what people want.

If you perhaps have any skill at repairing things, great.  People always need stuff fixed in their house or business and everyone they call is unreliable. You might be the first reliable fix-it professional.You would quickly get hired again and again.The last person I hired to assemble stuff in my office arrived late, left with work incomplete and was overall 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 go to any business, even in this recessionary economy and tell the business owner you will sell their products and services and be paid commission only.Plenty of business owners will “hire” you immediately.If you can genuinely sell, a know-how that even most sales people don’t have, you will have cash in your pocket all the time.Want to make more?Simply sell items that are more expensive and get 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 0 of flowers down at the flower mart in the morning and stand at a busy intersection, you could easily sell 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 alternatives to get rich and you can leave your old existence of unemployment behind.
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