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It’s hard 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 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 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?

Know that the reason you don’t have a job is that business owners don’t 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 people want.  I see lots of hard luck stories on TV and in the newspaper.People are unemployed because no one wants what they provide and these people don’t provide 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 much better if you don’t need anyone to hire you.It’s much better if you understand how to get rich yourself or if you have a know-how that people will ALWAYS want no matter what the economic conditions.
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 foolishly apply for more jobs as a corporate lackey so that the same thing would recur, 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 downtown, and offers the business owner to wash windows.I am certain that he earns two hundred dollars plus per day as there are hundreds of stores in the downtown and if he asks a small price to ), he gets plenty of business. He may not realize it but at least he is on the route to get rich.

He won’t get rich washing windows but watch what can happen.He asks each store owner if they want to have him come back and wash the windows in 2 weeks.  Enough store owners say yes.So now, he gives work to an unemployed guy for an hour and has him wash the windows for the businesses that want their windows washed every two weeks.Our window washer continues to visit more stores and get more new accounts and in a few months, has 4 others working for him and is earning 0,000 a year and will never, ever be enslaved by 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 date in the future there is no demand for window cleaning, then he will clean bathrooms or clean homes or paint or do tasks 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 goods 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 repaired in their home or work place and everyone they call is unreliable. You might be the first reliable fix-it professional.You would quickly get hired over and over.The last person I hired to assemble stuff in my office arrived late, left with work undone and was overall not productive.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 the business owner you will sell their goods 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 earn more?Merely sell items that have a higher price tag 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 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.Drivers will see you and think “we should get some flowers for Aunt Martha.” Just look around and ask “what do people desire?” The more answers you have for that question, the more ways to get rich and you can leave your old life of unemployment behind.
If you liked this article and are ready for the next step, read Five Ways to Get Rich.