It’s hard 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.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 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?

Know that the reason you don’t have a job is that businesses 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 are unemployed because nobody desires what they provide and these people do not provide what people with money 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 explain what others are always willing to have.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 worth are not offered in universities or vocational schools.All of these classes have benefit ONLY if a business will hire you. It’s far better if you don’t need any person 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 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 two hundred dollars plus per day as there are thousands of stores in the city center and if he charges a small fee to ), he gets plenty of work. He may not realize it but at least he is on the path to get rich.

He won’t get rich washing windows but watch 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 entrepreneur continues to visit new shops and get more new accounts and in a few months, has four people working for him and is earning 0,000 a year and will never, ever be at the mercy of 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 laid off from, but as a provider of things and labor that people want. Let me tell you what people want.

If you happen to have any skill at fixing things, great.People always need things fixed in their home or office and everyone they call is unreliable. You might be the first reliable fix-it person.  You would quickly get called again and again.The last person I hired to assemble stuff in my office showed up late, left with tasks undone and was overall not productive.Will I phone 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 businesses will “hire” you in a flash.If you can REALLY sell, a know-how that even most sales professionals don’t have, you will have cash in your pocket all the time.  Want to earn more?Merely sell items that are more expensive and get larger commission checks.
I am writing this on December 23.In the following two days, many people will be driving to their relative’s house for Christmas.  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 must 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 ways to get rich and you can leave your old life of unemployment behind.
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