Ideas on creating a job
Yesterday I heard on the news that eight percent of jobs in this country were related to the housing industry. With the housing market in a dire financial situation, I know many are out of work. However, do not be despondent, put on your thinking cap and figure out a way to create your own job and make a living.
As I mentioned in my blog “create your own job, part one” when the tax revenue man paid a visit, I had to be a tax collector. So keep in mind that if you go into business for yourself, you will need a license and tax number. Otherwise, you can be fined or face jail.
After moving from the Ocee community, I started several other businesses. I created an interior design business and operated that for seven years. A large amount of my business was decorating hotels, restaurants, and offices with live plants. I decorated some homes and contracted to do all the model homes for the largest home builder in Georgia. I simply created the business from an idea, began with very little capital, worked hard and made a good living. Lifting heavy items took its toll and I went from interior design to starting a florist business, having small florist shops inside flea markets. I studied flower arranging while living in the Orient, so I knew how to do that with live or silk flowers.
I ran across a news clipping I saved from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1990 about a man who started a business selling pine kindling, marketing it through the L.L. Bean company. Now there’s a creative idea. Going to the woods and finding what is referred to in the south as fat pine, lightwood or heart pine. It’s a type of rich pine saturated with combustible turpentine, rosin and other chemicals that makes starting a fire easy and quick to keep winter home fires burning. The article stated that, “L.L. Bean sells it by the bag, box or bundle, purchasing about 40 tons of kindling a month.” It’s listed as “Georgia Fatwood” in the catalog. The article went on to say it was sometimes given as a gift to someone who has everything.
Another large lucrative business is going to the woods and raking up pine straw, baling and selling to various business and home owners.
I mention these two things because they are products just lying out there in the woods. All one has to do is the labor of gathering and selling it, something that would require practically very little capital, a way to bag or bale and a vehicle to haul . . . just a couple of examples of how to create your own business with practically no capital.
Losing a job and unable to find another can be depressing. One has to find a way to make a living. I don’t know of any way one can get along in this world without some money. Sometimes an adversity is a blessing in disguise. There are hundreds of ways a person can make money in this country, and hundreds of untold ways to make a living. The job you lost, some one created. There is no excuse for sitting around having a pity party and expecting the government to take care of you.
Sometimes we just need a little nudge to put our thinking cap on to get off the dime. For me, it was just hearing a friend tell me, way back then, “instead of looking for a job, create one.” I did it more than once, and so can you. And when you do, please leave a comment on my blog site.
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JUST ME,
AC
