Who Wants To Make Themselves A Millionaire Essays -

Who Wants To Make Themselves A Millionaire Why are we working to make other people rich? Is it because we are trained to in school? Or is it because big business makes an offer we can't refuse? I think that at an early age we are taught to be a good employee rather than live life in a business state of mind. At an early age we are taught to be employees. We are taught to work together to help us socialize with others in our work. We are taught to follow directions to help us be better employees, receive successful jobs, and succeed in the jobs we do get. I know that following directions and socializing with others are important in developing as a person, but we also need to be taught a better business state of mind. By this, I mean we should learn how to develop ideas to become our own boss. We are taught at early ages to make good grades. Why is this? I believe it is because we are taught that good grades insure better jobs, which is to an extent true. Bill Gates, Lawrence Ellison, and Paul Allen, the top three on Forbes' richest people list, had ideas, developed them, and became successful. In Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the author states that wealthy people stay wealthy by teaching kids a business state of mind; whereas, middle class people tend to teach their kids to be an employee (Kiyosaki 58). There are middle class people who become rich, but I think it's because they got out of the employee state of mind. An example is Tom Reynolds; he has a five-year-old business and fewer than 50 employees, but is approaching six million dollars in sales. I think he was goal-driven to become rich and this ambition got him from middle class to millionaire status (Silverstein T8) When I used to work at Best Buy I would think of people like Tom Reynolds who progressed out of the middle-class. While I was getting paid six dollars and fifty cents an hour, like most regular employees, Richard Schultz, the founder of Best Buy, was making hundreds of millions of dollars a year. This wasn't making a lot of sense to me. Why did everyone else work while he got to relax and become rich? It's because he had an idea and developed it. Some people are born workers. I know we need workers to make a society, but work wasn't and isn't for me. My friend and I had an idea of advertising on the Internet. With a few learn-how-to books and some time, we had created our own business. I think that like Tom Reynolds we were goal driven to become successful. I think that without dreams and ambitions one cannot succeed. Without dreams and ambitions what does one have to look forward to? I may not be making millions of dollars, but I have all the time I need, and I still make money. Most people are happy with their life as an employee, and that is wonderful. Without them, we wouldn't have fast food and other needed services. There are also a lot of people unhappy with their salary, but they work it out. If they had been taught a better business state of mind, I think they could have found ways to be happier with their lives. When I interviewed a friend of mine who is an employee that wants to find a better job, I asked him six questions. What kind of job would you rather have, if not current employer, and why don't you have it; what types of tasks do you do daily; in ten years would you still want to be where you are today; compare and contrast the labor you do for your boss and the hours worked each week; as a child do you think you were taught to be an employee or a business person; and do you think that people being unhappy with their jobs is a problem in America? He tells me that he would rather be in business for himself making his money work for him or wor k as a laser technician. He did go to