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The Old Way of Making Money is Dead!
What I Wish I knew Early on About Making Money
There was one way to make money growing up. It was the only way we were thought, and the only way we knew.
This path was linear, with occasional bumps here and there, but it had worked for the generation before and it was bound to work in similar fashion for my generation, or so we thought.
Tradition, that’s what I call it, and I’ve grown to hate it.
The rules of engagement were simple: go to school, get good grades, find a job, work the job, and get paid (earn a salary).
If you didn’t get a job in your field of study, well, you could try something else. It really didn’t matter as long as you got a job. The main thing was to get a job.
The only other option was to join the growing list of unemployed graduates. That group would without end, keep searching for jobs and still find none, and resort to complaining about how terrible the economy was.
I don’t recall much on talking about dreams with my peers. Whatever it was, however, I’m pretty sure it centered on the jobs we wanted to be hired to do.
Our minds had been shaped to always exchange time for money. That’s the worst possible way to make money and rightly so because on…
