Just Do It, Get A Job

And for me... Crud, today ugh, another year has past. Happy birthday to me... Just another day...

The years just keep ticking away. Used to seem slow, but wow, they are zippin past a bit to quickly now.........................................................! Beard's gone from mostly gray to mostly white! Don't see any wrinkles but the eyes always look tired... Sh-crap, I'm feelin tired... Eh, so what?...

Ok, enough of the self pity. I'm over it. Well, for now anyway.

I'm getting a bit tired of talking about getting out there and getting a job.

Just do it. Can't find what's right, get something to get by on until ya do.

Make a job for yourself! Just take what you like doing and find a way to earn from it.

OOOOOH, but it costs a lot of money to start a business... Wah, wah, wah... Do you want to do it or not?

The dad of a very successful excavator I know said to him after he took over his dads small business, take this old equipment you now have and let it pay for new. When you get that new, make it pay for another. Well he did. And he did very well. Has work 12 months out of the year, keeps all his employees working year round. Has so darned much equipment sitting and working all across this country that he at times wonders where the heck a certain piece of equipment is...

This guy started with one backhoe and one dump truck. They were old and about as used up as it comes. He spent countless hours just doing repairs to keep them going. Missed a lot of sleep doing so. He didn't always work 8 hour days either. He put in many 16 to 20 hour days.

Did he sit and whine? NO, he just kept pushing on. As he made money he reinvested money.

He had a family and a home also. Kids ain't cheap and sons have bottomless stomachs...

I've known many who had nothing, but were very successful business people. They did not start with new equipment, tools, office supplies or anything else. They scrounged, even begged, to find what would work for them and what they could afford. They “made do” with little and built from there.

Again, they too did not set on their butts and cry in their cheerios.

They aimed their selves in a direction and just kept pushing on. They climbed the ladder...

Can't get a loan? Well who the heck do you think you are? Of course not. You have nothing!

It royally p'd me off too! There is truth in the line that “only people who don't need money can borrow money”. Well guess what, they have a track record. Want to find out what kind of track record you have, just ask those people ya think believe in you to co sign a loan... If they can, I think you will find out just how much they think of you...

People who have, they have things. Some business, some personal. These things can be called collateral. Collateral is what you need to get a loan.

Took me many, many years to be able to walk into a bank and get a loan on my name and word only... But still, I ask for to much, eh, they want collateral.

OK, I get it. They want to be as sure as possible that their money will be returned... Along with the interest (their pay). Yup, they must have been in business a while their selves...

Check out rummage sales, thrift stores, auctions, for sale adds in the paper. That's where you get tools, equipment, whatever, to get started. They're not the only places but I'm sure you are smart enough to get the idea.

Don't let the desire to start at the top be your dead end. Don't let your dreams of shiny new toys keep you for getting them. Start with what “you have” and what “you can” and just keep on pushing. Get tough or die! It will not be easy, but then again, nothing is...

Now this paragraph... Take it as a warning.

I said before about not trying to BS when your looking for a job... We business people have been there and we have watched countless whiners fail because they wouldn't change their attitudes and push ahead. We've started where you are and can read people like a book. With really big letters! We learned...

Had people who wouldn't show up until lunch time... Oh well, just don't expect much pay. Most didn't stick around for long when they made little money but hey, they didn't put in much time... Even I had to learn that lesson!

Believe me, we learned the hard way. People cheated us, lied to us, refused to pay us, ripped us off, on and on... We dealt with customers and others who had “you owe me” attitudes. We learned...

People told us we couldn't do it! We'd never succeed! Well for the successful, thems was fighten words! It just made it more important to succeed. We just worked harder!

Not one darned thing in this life is easy. Even taking it easy isn't easy. Has a big price. Want to take it easy, then work your butt off so you can.

For some of you, mommy and daddy did, and because of you, still are! Get out! Go live under a bridge if your to danged good to take any job you can find. That is ALL you deserve. It's winter, get a shovel and shovel snow! Buy your own food, and pay your own bills!

Sorry, way to many mommies and daddies gave in when children whined... I just got even more hard headed and learned not to hear. And was even more likely to say no way! My last two kids heard “get a job” so many times, I do believe they were sick of it...

Did I hurt your feelings here? Ooooooh, go tell mommy maybe she'll give ya some more milk and cookies. Maybe she'll be fool enough to let you be a baby the rest of her life.

Just one question before ya go... Whatcha gonna do when she's no longer around?...

Hey, my fingers are getting tired.

Sorry I went on so long but I'm just tired of all the complaining about “I can't find a job”.

Look there is lots of work out in this world. It may not be your dream job, you might really have to work... (What a novel idea...) If “you” really want work... It is out there!

There are a lot of people out here that really would rather find an excuse than a job.

Funny, I've found it harder to avoid work than just do and get it done...

Next Monday??? Who knows? Just think I've beat this to death...

See ya later...