Jollibee Employee or Entrepreneur?
I remember a conversation overheard some time ago while eating at Jollibee. It went like this:
Child: “Mama, how do people make money?”
Mom: “People make money by working, son.”
Child: “But how does one make a LOT of money?”
Mom: “If you work hard and get promoted, you’ll get a higher-paying job so you’ll make more money.”
Child: “Do you really need a job to make a lot of money?”
Mom: “Of course, that’s why you have to study hard.”
Child: “Does the owner of Jollibee make a LOT of money?”
Mom: “Yes, but the Jollibee owner sells food to make money. When you order fries or Coke or whatever, the owner makes money.”
Child: “When I grow up, I want to apply as an owner of Jollibee.”
Mom: “No, son, you will need millions to be a Jollibee owner, but you can be a doctor or lawyer, those are high-paying jobs.”
Sadly, parents are unknowingly programming and pulling their kids’ mentality down like this. (I hope the kid follows his entrepreneurial instincts).
I have nothing against employment though. Employment was my parents’ means to put me and my siblings through school, to feed us, etc.
BUT…most people’s minds are conditioned only to earn working income. Most of us were NEVER exposed to, let alone taught, how to earn passive income.
Now, why recall the conversation?
I learned a few days ago that Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of the Rich Dad series who’s been preaching financial literacy to attain financial freedom, just released his latest book entitled The Business Of The 21st Century (and I’m excited to be the first to blog about this :>).
He’s been teaching the importance of financial education in his books, and he’s been telling all along that “Go to school, get good grades, and get a job” is an Industrial age idea.
In the 21st century, the Information Age, Robert Kiyosaki explains how you can take advantage of this economic crisis to build wealth through…guess what he calls The Business of the 21st Century???
It’s NETWORK MARKETING!
Yes, he points out the real benefits of having a network marketing business, and he discusses the following wealth-building assets that you’re actually generating when you have a network marketing business:
Asset #1: A Real-World Business Education
Asset #2: A Profitable Path of Personal Development
Asset #3: A Circle of Friends Who Share Your Dreams and Values
Asset #4: The Power of Your Own Network
Asset #5: A Duplicable, Fully Scalable Business
Asset #6: Incomparable Leadership Skills
Asset #7: A Mechanism for Genuine Wealth Creation
Asset #8: Big Dreams and the Capacity to Live Them
I can attest to these great assets generated by building a network marketing business, especially #1: business education. I’m not talking about education similar to what you get in the classroom, even if you’re taking an MBA. I’m talking about business skills and education that you can learn from real-life successful entrepreneurs.
It is in this business that I found some great mentors who are giving away their knowledge for FREE(!), and I am not bothered by the negative perception of people about the industry (it’s just their perception anyway).
For those ‘in the know,’ network marketing is a great personal development type of business. It is about developing people, not pushing them down. It’s about building people up so that they can take better control of their lives and their future.
Network marketing is not about recruit-recruit or selling the products. Network marketing, The Business of the 21st Century, is about turning people from employees to entrepreneurs. That’s why this site is here. The content I am publishing here are from way back when I was first exposed to the wonders of network marketing.
So, which would you rather be in the 21st century? Employee or entrepreneur?
Trivia: Jollibee CEO Tony Tan Caktiong is one of the Top 10 Richest People in the Philippines (2009) with a net worth of over $700M.:)
You are right, sometimes the dogma and norms that parents are trying to raise their kids to believe and live into is just crippling.
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annette Reply:
July 7th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
yup, first parents then our educational system, what we are taught in schools.
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