Storebuilder Blog - Productivity

It’s pretty miserable out there. The last of the Woolworths stores is closing down and the staff are facing up to redundancy, in fact businesses are closing down left right and centre and there can be few people who are comfortable knowing that whatever happens they will have a job come January 2010.

In “Rich dad poor dad” the emphasis is always on “paying yourself first”, you always pay your investment vehicles first before paying the bills. But without a job or income this is no mean feat!

There can be no better time to start your own internet business and free yourself from the daily drudgery of working for someone else. And if it’s not the daily grind that you want to get away from then the financial uncertainty should be a good reason enough.

Working for someone else or being employed for a long period of time doing the same job is old school. My Grandad fought his way across Dunkirk then through Africa and on up through Italy before emerging physically unscathed from the second world war.

Upon returning to normal life he worked for the post office for a further 20 years or so before retiring.

Not being financially savvy he rented his house in Putney, London for the whole of his life and never had any investments to speak of .

Just ask all those long serving employees of Woolworths what they got out of devoting 20 years or so to standing behind a till? In fact in Jersey because of a law loophole the ex employees are not even entitled to redundancy pay and of course the administrators are not going to make lowly employees a priority anytime soon.

Working for someone else for a living has to be the absolute worst way of making a living. When the financial big wigs make big mistakes and send the company spiralling out of control the poor unfortunate employee is the one that bears the biggest burden and not through any fault of their own.

Commuting is going to get worse, a lot worse. If you think it’s bad now it’s going to get doubly bad.

Oil prices may be coming down now but the long term fact is that eventually oil will run out and that means rising costs for virtually everything in the developed world.

Building an internet business does not mean that you have to have stock or inventory. Or even have to call it a “business”. Affiliate marketing is one of the greatest creative outlets for anyone that is prepared to put themselves out to a little bit of creative thinking and investing some time into learning how to build a website.

If you want to take the first steps to ridding yourself of a job and everything that goes with it get yourself a copy of Sitesell which is simply the easiest way to get yourself off to a flying start.

Don't procrastinate - get doing it!

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