10 Things They Never Tell You When You Start Work …And Why!

The Second Thing They Never Tell You
"You'll never make good money working for other people."
How many senior managers are there at your place of work? And
how many others are there? The ratio is likely to be anywhere from
40:1 to 200:1. So if you have their education, background, ability,
contacts and perhaps luck, those will be your odds of making that
kind of money also. If you lack any one of those parameters, the
odds increase exponentially.
Then ask yourself how long you would have to wait before you
started earning that sort of cash? By the time you start making
enough money to relax with, it's nearly time to retire.
Pah! You want the cash NOW, just when you need it most - when
you want to build a home, raise a family, do stuff, take activity
holidays, drive a fast car or whatever.
So what do you do about it?
Well, you could look to get into one of the more lucrative and
growing business sectors such as computing, finance or recruitment.
Or one of the traditional ones such as law or accountancy. Any of
these may mean re-training. And you must be sure you are going to
at least enjoy it a bit. Alternatively, you could put your efforts into
Number 1, above, which may take years to develop, or…
Have outside interests! This is much more fun. Don't fall for getrich
quick schemes (because they are anything but) or homeworking
schemes. And be wary also of MLM (multi-level marketing)
stuff.
Keep your eyes and ears open. Talk to friends. Can you club
together and start something? Think about what interests you; what
you already know something about. What have you learnt from your
employer than you can apply outside? Can you trade your skills
elsewhere? Are there certain elements of what your employer does
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that you could do better or cheaper? You certainly won't have the
overheads they have and that will make you cheaper. Are there
ideas and suggestions that would work but which they have failed to
or refuse to take on board? "Ripping off" your employer in this way is
probably the most common way of doing your own thing.
Accumulate everything you can from them that you think might help.
Keep these questions in your mind and sooner or later ideas will
start to flow, often in the most unexpected places.
I'm always on the look out for good part-time business ideas
myself to pass onto ProFile members. Perhaps I will have the
opportunity to divulge some to you in the future.




After reading the content above,you are about to discover some very useful insights into the world
of work. Insights that should make your working days less stressful,
more understandable and meaningful and quite possibly more
lucrative, too. These few pages divulge some very valuable
information. Information that could open your eyes to a new way of
working if you so choose; certainly a new way of thinking.
This concise collection of no-nonsense disclosures about the
world of work, its pitfalls, its peculiarities and its opportunities took
me many years to accumulate and decipher. They could have saved
me a whole lot of grief in the early years, had I known it all back
then. But they certainly made life more tolerable in the meantime.
It is written in my preferred style - open, free-flowing and
conversational, which pulls few punches. This booklet is after all
intended to expose a few home truths, so there is no point in
mincing about.
You may not like some of the points made here and some you
may not believe in or agree with them all. But whether you do or not,
they do happen, every day, up and down the country.
It all depends on your personal nature. If you're happy doing what
you do, that's fine. If, however, you are looking to make life easier
for yourself, or for ways to get on a bit, then you'll likely find the
nuggets of information very useful.
As is explained in Number 10, application is the key to learning.
So, as you read each one, give some thought as to how it applies to
your own situation.