Laid Off (Again)

Todd,

Thanks for laying it on the line.

Step # 1: Do NOT fear layoff. Easy to say. Maybe not so easy to do - but then again, yes, easy to do. You just need to think about it differently.

If you Knew you could get another job Just Like That (snap), would you fear layoff?

If the worst that would happen is, you fall behind on a payment, would you fear layoff?

Guess what? The above Is the worse that would happen, and jobs can be had Just Like That - but you mustn't have any Standards about the work. And you need to think of it differently too.

Do you want a Job or do you want to Work. The two Sound similar but they are worlds apart. If you want to Work, then the Work you do shouldn't matter too much as you will be working.

Here is where you do as Gordon suggested... call a Temp Agency and work as a Laborer - our Labor is the most basic thing we have to offer, so offer it.

Step # 2: Learn your lesson. Look... "I just don't want to get back in the same rut I've been in for several years now, content to "get by" on whatever I'm making and susceptible to layoffs at any time (this is 6 or 7 - and my third just from this company!)."

The same company has laid you off two previous times and you're back with them. Man, you need to go outside and give yourself an uppercut. After the first, you Should have been off like a shot and on to something else. Anything else.

Options: Call removal companies and ask if you can be a removalist labor. Call tree loppers and ask if you can be a laborer for ground work. Call a cleaning company and ask if they need any Night Time cleaners - will free you to do other work during the day. Call a scaffold company and ask if they need any Labor. Same with landscapers. Fencing. Precast Concrete (usually a High Turnover of Staff as they cannot Hack the work). Call the local stadium and ask who does their After Game Cleaning then call them for work. Call a car yard and ask if you can sell cars on the weekend.

Real Estate Selling and Real Estate Loan Broking have a HIGH Turnover. Massively high. Because people find, after the delusion fog lifts, it's darn Tough to make it in that game.

Wannabe salesmen draw on commissions they haven't yet earned. Then when they sell they get nothing as they'd already taken it over time. Brokers don't Process enough loans to make basic wage and quit because...

Everyone needs to put food on the table.

Consider... TWO part time jobs. As your Business - whatever It is - grows, Then you Jettison one of the PT Jobs.

Now A Question...

WHY do want to sell real estate?

Michael Ross