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     Always_gifts Advanced Member Username: Always_gifts Post Number: 127 Registered: 09-2003 |
An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test. The HR manager tells him ••••• be hired at $5.35 an hour and asks for an e-mail address so he can automatically e-mail him the forms and tell you where to report on your first day. Taken aback, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replies, "To our company this means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day." Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25 lb. crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family. He decides to repeat the tomato business every day. Early the next week he buys a cart to transport more tomatoes, and by month's end he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck. By year's end he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him. He wife is a buyer and his daughter takes night courses at the community college so she can keep books. By the end of the second year he has a dozen used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people. He continues to work hard. |
