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It’s hard to get rich if you’re all day at a job. Your valuable 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.Moreover, you have time to digest that the reason you’re laid off is that you’ve been pursuing incorrect goals and what you’ve been doing the last ten years will never get you rich.If you’ve been laid off as an administrative assistant, the a foolish thing to do is seek 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 worse, I say this to tell you that it’s high time you offered what people will pay for.  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 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 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 (e.g. to ), 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 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 window washer continues to visit more stores and get more new accounts and in a short while, has four 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 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 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 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 could be the first reliable fix-it person.  You would quickly get called again and again.   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 present yourself to any business, even in this battered economy and tell the business owner you will sell their goods and be paid commission only.  Plenty of businesses will “hire” you in a flash.If you can genuinely 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 have a higher price tag 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 home for Christmas.If you buy 0 of flowers down at the flower mart in the a.m. and set up at a busy cross street, you could readily market those flowers for 0.Drivers will see you and think “we should get some flowers for 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.
If you liked this article and are ready for the next step, read Five Ways to Get Rich.