As I was quickly approaching my eighteenth birthday, my father took me aside to tell me something he said was very important.
He told me that I needed to get a job.
My father was a painter, painting kiss918 apk buildings, storage tanks, towers and bridges. He went to work each day and earned his paycheck and made a decent living when the weather was nice.
But because most of his work was outside I also remember food stamps and government commodities each winter.
I had jobs as I was growing up, delivering the newspaper, cleaning boats each summer, but what he was referring to was more than that.
He told me that if I got a job with a good company and stayed there, maybe it wouldn't pay all that much in the beginning but I could work my way up in the company and get raises and before long I would be earning a good living.
That would've worked great back in the kiss918 pc forties and fifties. That was a time when major corporations stood by their employees, a world where 'company man' actually meant something. Words such as 'downsizing' didn't exist.
But this was the Seventies, the beginning of the 'global economy'. Employees were not as respected any more. Employees had become little more than tools. When the tool loses its edge, why bother sharpening it when it's more cost-effective to replace it with a new one?
I knew I didn't want to become a tool. I wanted to be the man who owns the company that uses the tool.
One of my father's favorite hobbies was saving money. He gloried when he could add a few more dollars to the account. "Saving it for a rainy day", he said.
I can't fault him for that. He was a child of the Great Depression, a time when a man was lucky to have a job that paid five cents an hour. To him, having money in savings meant he was getting ahead.
But I always seen it as opportunity being wasted. My father always worked for his money and he did so because he would not put that money to work for himself. His money would sit in the savings account year after year, earning a paltry 3 or 4 percent when it could have been multiplying two and three times quite easily in the same amount of time.
Are you falling into that same mindset? There's a saying that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and that may be true but how long will you hold onto it when it is hurting you?
People know they are being hurt when they feel physical pain but most do not feel the financial pain they are suffering by holding onto their money. If some or all of that money were put to work, they could double and triple their money in the same amount of time instead of settling for the meager interest.
Why work for your money when your money could be working for you?
The key to putting your money to work for you is to invest it in a sure thing. Buying lottery tickets or betting on the horses is not a sure thing. Any game in a casino is geared for the house to win, not you.
Even buying stocks and bonds is not always a sure thing and it could take years to double your money.
One of the best ways I have found to double and triple my money in just a few weeks is buying and selling.
Buying involves an initial investment. You buy what people want, buy it at a reasonable price and sell it to them for more than your cost, fair supplement pocketing the difference. The buyer gets what they've been looking for, you get your initial investment back plus some and everyone is happy.
Buying and selling is not complicated. In fact, it is quite easy, especially when the buyers come to you.
Most people consider flea markets to be for poor people but the honest fact is more than a million dollars in cash changed hands at flea markets last weekend, in the state Of Texas alone! If you are not selling at flea markets you are losing out on a lot of money.
When you sell at flea markets, the buyers come to you. The attraction is the many small businesses at a flea market, all independently game kiss918 and operated. It is hard to beat the immense variety of goods for sale all in one central place. For shoppers a flea market is an opportunity to save money. For sellers, it's an opportunity to make a lot of money.
A flea market business is one of the most affordable and easiest businesses to start. Buy merchandise, rent a space at the flea market and sell it to the shoppers. It's very informal. Your initial investment can be as low as a couple hundred dollars and you can make that back plus some in only a few short weeks while having fun each weekend.
