It’s hard to get rich if you’re working. Your precious time is consumed slaving for someone else and that means you have no time to mastermind 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 understand 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 bad, I say this to tell you that it’s time you offered what others want.  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 offered in universities 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 know how to get rich on your own or if you have a skill that others will ALWAYS want 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 sure that he earns two hundred dollars plus per day as there are thousands of stores in the city center 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 path to get rich.

He won’t get rich cleaning windows but watch what can happen.He asks each business owner if they want to have him come back and clean the windows in 2 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 big as he wants because he can go to the next town and replicate this success. If at some point in the future there is no desire for window cleaning, then he will clean bathrooms or clean homes 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 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 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 stuff fixed in their home or work place 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 go to any business, even in this down economy and tell them you will sell their products and services and be paid commission only.Plenty of businesses 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 make more?  Just sell items that are more expensive and earn larger commission checks.
I am writing this two days before Christmas.  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.  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.