Many people are in a situation such that the only practical way for them to be able to pay the bills at the end of the month is to work at some "job" ("just over broke!"). Many of these people work at essentially "dead-end jobs." I once worked for a publishing company. After about 10 days of working there it was clear to me that working there was of limited benefit to me... unless I could learn a great deal which I could apply elsewhere to make money for myself. It so happened that this company sold their products through direct-mail marketing. So I decided that it would be worth my while to work for the company if I could learn about marketing, particularly writing advertising copy that sells. I worked for the company for nearly two years, learning all I could. After I left them I wrote two books, The Economic Rape of America: What You Can Do About It and Wake Up America! The Dynamics of Human Power. I published them myself and started selling them. Later I also wrote most of the Terra Libra Reports. Selling these books and reports eventually became a thriving business. Much of the success stemmed from what I had learned while working at the publishing company.
The moral of the story is that if your situation is such that you have to work for money, then be sure to put yourself in a position that enables you to learn what will later enable you to make much more money.
