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It used to be that a job was the only way to make sure money but not so.

If you read Robert T. Kiyosaki's The Cashflow Quadrant which I highly recommend, you will realize that a job is just one of the four ways you can make money from.

There are a minimum of four ways of how you can make money

Let's Beat The Dead Horse Shall We?

1. Job

A job is a sure way you can make money. You are guaranteed a paycheck after a certain period as long as you do your part. Your employer is basically buying the expertise you are selling.

But stuff happens in life and you find yourself out of a job (yours truly has been through three of these).

2. Self Employement

Also known as giving yourself a job. You take your expertise and create a job for yourself. So, for instance, I start private tutoring instead of working in a school or I start a medical practice instead of working in a hospital as a doctor. Consulting falls into this category. The list is long.

This has it's pluses and minuses which I will not go into but quite a handsome amount of money is made here.

3. Business Owner

These guys are pretty smart. They build a business system which they own. They may work there if they chose or not. Think of Microsoft, Bill Gates does not have to work there anymore...he built it. Others get jobs there. Others are self employed because of Microsoft.

4. Investors

These guys are those who let their money work for money. They can be as big as Warron Buffet or as small as some guys I know around my city. Either way, they are able to make money...lots of it.

5. Combos

There are those who combine being employed and owning a business or being self employed and being and investor and so on and so forth.

So the issue is to widen the horizon and ask yourself which way you should be making money. Stop limiting yourslf to a job.

Last time I checked, Steemit is making me money and I continue to write more helpful stuff and get paid for it.

Bottom line: a job is one of the many ways through which you can make money.