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Chapter 1

The Four Fastest

Ways to Profit

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t any crossroads in life, there are always two paths: the common road and the road less travelled. When it comes to money, most peo-

ple take the slow way by going to school, getting a good job, and saving for retirement. Like most people, I travelled on the slow road. I went to a good school and graduated with a degree, but my path had a twist on it. After finishing school, although I had earned a degree, I didn’t have a set career path or an easy way to success. After I finished school with a major in English and a minor in music, my first job out of school was a ten-dollar-per-hour sales job on straight commission in the middle of the night. I was selling luxury hotel rooms over the telephone and knew the path I was on was not where I wanted to be. I had to learn how to change directions and head down a new avenue. Making ten dollars per hour in the middle of the night was not going to help me live my dreams, and the cold reality of that first job out of university was that I was making more money working part time to pay my way through school than I was earning post education with a degree. In some ways, I may have wasted four years of my life earning that piece of paper that I thought would validate me, but I had also accidentally enrolled in the best school in the world—the school of life.