Working is the slowest way to make money. I’ll tell you why.

6AM. This is when my day tends to start. Over the next 9 hours I make $20 an hour which is enough to just cover my food for the week. I work in a boring place with boring people and for what? So at the end of my working day I can take the bus home, get changed out of my hot, uncomfortable uniform and watch TV until my next meal, then sleep, repeat the same pattern 5 times a week. I’m not unhappy with what I have, until I see people far more financially successful then me and see how much more to life they have. This is what I see as the different levels and it all rotates around the same thing we all crave: The dollar.

We all wish to be in that top 1% of earners with the flashy house, cars and clothes. But for most of us at least, It’s never going to just get handed to us, we work for it. A family friend of mine who is in that small margin of earners with their own net worth amounting to a massive sum of roughly $25 million once told me, “The slowest way to make money is by working”. This sounds like it makes no sense, as this is what we are told all our lives, but think about it. Think of the top 10 wealthiest people in the world. Actually make that top 100, to prove my point. Not one of them works a 9-5 job, no matter how high the salary is, or what type of degre they may have. They are all big CEO’s and business owners or founders. Every single one. Therefore “working” is the slowest way to make money, and the fastest way is with ideas. This is the hardest part though.

An idea for what?

You may think this idea has to be an original idea, but this is actually far from the truth. If an your idea has been done already, then it obviously works, so what’s to say it won’t work again? Burger King and KFC didn’t stop their idea because Mcdonald’s did it first, they saw what Mcdonald’s was doing and saw that it works, therefore it seemed like a pretty good business idea. And who doesn’t love a bit of variety?

Now, I’m no expert, but all I will say is that if I stick by these rules to true financial success, you won’t be hearing about me working at minimum wage for too much longer, and I strongly urge you to take this path to success that I am choosing, as it has been done many times before.

Story written by Sach Donkers from New Zealand.