It’s hard to get rich if you’re all day at a job. Your 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 barking up the wrong tree and what you’ve been working at the last ten 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 business owners don’t desire 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 out of work because nobody needs 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 explain 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 benefit ONLY if a business will hire you. It’s better for you if you don’t need any person to give you a job.It’s superior if you understand how to get rich yourself or if you have a know-how that others 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 lackey so that the same thing would recur, so that he could become unemployed again and repeat the cycle of being at the effect of the economy or another person’s business?You can’t get rich in that manner and this person 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 0+ per day as there are thousands of stores in the downtown and if he charges a small fee (e 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 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 business 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 stores and get more new “accounts” and in a few months, has 4 people working for him and is earning 0,000 a year and will never, ever be beholden to 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 desire for window cleaning, then he will clean toilets or clean houses 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 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 goods and services that people want. Let me tell you what people want.

If you happen to 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 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 walk into any business, even in this battered economy and tell them you will sell their products and services and be paid commission only.Plenty of businesses will “hire” you in a flash.  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?  Just sell items that are more expensive 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 a.m. and stand at a busy cross street, 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 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.