He Started with Street Food

Let's call him Manny. He started with street food. Well, when we were younger he graduated from Mapua, a primier engineering college in Manila. Then he passed the electrical engineering board. He tried lots of jobs but one day lost them all and became unemployed a long time and worried much about it. He had a family to feed.

In desperation--and much pride-swallowing--he finally ended up helping his brother sell street food, and that's literally selling finger food out in the streets near UP Los Banos. I once dropped by their small place years ago, but before they had that small place, they had been street vendors selling siomai on street corners with makeshift stalls--like the small-time vendors you see along busy roads looking like squatters. By the way, his brother (also an engineer) also had earlier quit his job to be jobless big-time. Oh yeah, he made it big with street food, able to buy his own house and send his kids to a private school. His wife had died; she formulated the special siomai mixture.

Then Manny decided to go solo with street food. He used to get a salary from helping his brother sell siomai in the streets. Now, he decided to go jobless again, but jobless big-time this time. He had a small capital he and his wife used to start their small business. He and his wife, both college grads, decided to hit the streets each night selling siomai. Just imagine what people thought about their financial condition and their livelihood choice.Imagine how they were mocked.

They were even harassed by policemen who chased them away for selling on the streets. So they worked out their business license when they had enough money, and gradually got a small legit stall. They worked that out for years.

Today, Manny has his own luxury van, a driver, and 4 small restaurants with steamed siomai as their specialty. Besides, they're looking for a property and house to buy as their own. He's stuck with being jobless big-time. He resolved never to go back to employment. He started with street food. Imagine that. If he did it (with enough imagination) you can, too.

Are you jobless now? Good! That's your break to start anew and be jobless big-time now, like Manny is. Yes, it entails sacrifice--great sacrifice, guts, imagination, and perseverance, plus lots of risks. But with God, you'd surely make it, if you don't give up.

Siomai

The thing is to determine to believe in yourself (your God-given potential), be your own boss, quit your job, and aim to succeed in a business you love doing. Look for something to sell. Yeah, you've got to sell something. Later, you can leverage and benefit from other people's time and effort, but still you have to continue selling now and then. It all starts with selling, and you maintain it by selling now and then, even if you are doing a network marketing business.

Keep selling. Teach your children the art of selling.

You think you're not designed for selling? But if you're getting an imagination for selling and beginning to develop an interest for it, you can be developed for a sales business. Sales people are made, not born. If you see it, you can make it happen, with God's blessing and guidance.

Now, Manny took the long way to success, but you can opt for a shorter way--not a shortcut but a shorter way. According to Manny, he started with a kilo of pork a day, and that's something like P3,000 a day (including the ingredients, condiments, utensils, gas, and packs). Per day he earned something like P500 or a bit more.

With some alternative businesses, like network marketing, you just start with P8,000 and can earn at least P3,700 a day or more. The P8,000 is your capital for the whole duration of the business, and that means years and years until you call it quits. You don't have to buy pork and ingredients each day, prepare siomai mix each night, wake up early to cook, set up shop on street corners each time you sell, and sell each night. And you don't have to hide from street cops. You don't need to get a place and pay monthly rent. You don't have to pay salaries or supervise employees. You just have fun with your teams, relax, and make money. I call the business Fun Team Building Net, where everyone just have fun making money.

Are you jobless? If not, quit your job!