Ways to earn money without it sounding too easy

1. Sell newspapers everyday.

2. Sell t-shirts or garments.

3. Sell food. Distribute.

4. Be a distributor of products.

5. Have an online business.

6. Buy and sell items.

7. Manufacture.

8. Write something.

9. Photograph something.

10. Publish a book.

11. Act in a commercial.

12. Be a star athlete. Play.

13. Sell something and earn commissions.

14. Give business advice.

15. Be a personal coach.

16. Teach somebody.

17. Buy and sell books.

18. Play music, create music, or sing.

19. Tinker on machines.

20. Design.

What to do when nobody believes in you

Just go on. Establish a name for yourself. Believe in yourself. Make something. Mark your own signature. Do not stop. Use your talents. Use it repeatedly. Just don't get tired. Embark on yourself. They will finally know who you are and what you can do.

Sales ramblings

I am an aspiring salesperson. I have an inclination on sales but I haven't done yet the sales process. I have no experience in selling yet and so I cannot gauge whether I'd be good at it or not. But I can be fair in my dealings and I want negotiations. I have just to practice. I hope I discover something in sales and I know there is some potential. I have to unearth it. I have to make negotiations in the world for the common good. Could be a potential winner in money!

Some frustrations

I don't know what it is but sometimes I really wonder why would be employers would reject me. I know I can do the job but just because my resume is not really peppered with a master's degree or continuous work experiences they wouldn't hire me. You know I got to eat too just like everybody. My fault, I have been choosy when jobs were coming my way. I wanted to relax and enjoy my life. I was young, I didn't want to work yet because I expect some money from my parents. But now it is different. Those who pay the bills are the bosses. Or so I assume. That's why it is quite impossible for me not to have a talent to showcase to some of the companies here in our country.

Would you do it for love or money?

What comprises the things that people do in the world? For love or for money? I have a cousin who could have been a great pianist but she did not pursue it. She is an hr personnel. I have an uncle whose talented in art but his work is in electrical engineering and receives a not so big enough pay from government payroll. I thought of becoming an actress and a famous athlete but I am not doing it now. At least not yet, I don't know if I will still do it. Maybe that is why I am not satisfied in my life. I hate to settle. But I experience. Although, I think following your dreams is much more easy than settling. I wonder what I would still need to do in order for me to find satisfaction in life. At 34, it's only now that I am awakening to opening up myself to my dreams. Before, I just waited. Now, I am willing to do it. Maybe it would be harder if I miss out on my dreams. I hope to find my dreams. I hope to find it soon. I hope to be happy.

Life's master record

I want to view life as something like a master record of things that you do in your life. If this were so, you would want to record only the best that you can be and you can do in your life.

It has long been my dream to live on my own, in my own house and living sufficiently with a job and doing the things that I want in life like maybe becoming an author and writing effective books for others to read. I want to share my ideas to the world and let them learn something for themselves as they live their lives on earth.

Having a family of my own and watching them grow and live together.

Marking yourself in the world, making something important like the important people in the world. In a way, I do not want to pass in this life by being a nobody, I want to matter to people's lives and most importantly find myself an important person even though only to my family and friends.

How do others do it? Some find it easy to find a job. Others find it easy to get rich. Some are richly blessed. Others make their marks in the world. I, too would like to become one important person. Doing for others.

I don't want to be stuck to applying for a job forever. I've been stuck in that stage for so long, actually 10 years of my life. I want to start anew. I want to make a mark of my own.

I want to do what is out there free for me to do. Like this blog. Like writing something that matters and letting other people read it. Helping needy people. Starting a business enterprise. Collaborating with other people. Engaging in my talents.

I can cook and cater to or sell food to other people with a very small capital. This way I can engage in my passion for cooking and make money on the side.

I can sell my writing.

I can sell anything.

I can draw my ideas of art.

There should be some cheap ways to engage in my passions and somehow make money for it.

What matters is that I express myself.

That I lead my life.

That I show that I care about other people.

That I matter.

That I enjoy.

That I make money, too.

And that I collect and record to life's master record and record beautiful files.

If I had all the money I need in the world, what would I do?

If I had all the money I need in the world, what would I do?

Pursue business. Be an important person in the world in terms of business, finance and economics. Meet up with very important people and make very important decisions in terms of finance, business and economics.

Study a Master's degree in business which would enable me to gain information regarding how business is being done in the world today. Study and learn about new models and be at the forefront of changes in the world today.

Have lots of businesses, for example:

Food businesses
Financial
Real estate
Financial Advisory
IT
Communication
Fashion
Retail
Entertainment
And so much more...

Reach out to other people and serve their needs. Love is what makes the world go round and so is money. For without money how can you live. Each person is equipped with innate talents and so each one has the capability to have a job and earn a living for himself. It's very basic.

Foster and create good relationships. Interact with as much people as possible and have a good relationship with them. Exchange ideas and experiences and bring about a better tomorrow.

Finally, do your purpose in life. Make sure you do what you do best in life and share it with others. Do what you're meant to do. Be yourself against all odds in the world. Be who you are and who God made you to be.

To feel free

What is the purpose in your life? I need to feel free about what I do in my life and not be bound by limitations. I have yet to discover what is it that really matter in life.

I have continuously applied for a job and this has taken me for so long, it hasn't worked yet. Other people those who had a lot of jobs are being offered those job vacancies as if those who have stopped working have no right to work anymore. You don't know everything about a person. You don't know all the reasons in this world. So why make a judgement. If you will only hurt people.

A lot people I presume go hungry because of certain things that are thought to be true but aren't. Some people have so much. Why don't you give something to those who go hungry. I am sometimes tired of having to prove myself to would be employers. They hire you for your resume not for who you are and what you can contribute to the company. They think that is the same.

There are just those people who choose to stay with their families and not waste even a bit of time doing work that doesn't count in their lives. Plus, you get rejected all the time all those years.

They gotta do something for a change. And I gotta do something that will make that incredible change in my life. Even if I had to do it everyday until I finish my goals. They gotta open their minds and hearts to people who are out there reaching out their hands even for a crumb. Life's got to be fair.

They reject you all the time and they have the heart to say you are irresponsible because you haven't worked. You don't know every reason in this world and therefore you need not judge.

I hope that one day every reason there is will be opened up in the world and the truth shall come out, and people will certainly feel free to live their lives and people will have a fair chance in this world and a fair share of the blessings.

As for me, when I think about it I am semi-tired of the whole process. But each day I stretch out my arms and I welcome the day as another chance to reach for my dreams, my goals and my purpose in life.

I have plenty of dreams that didn't come true. Or should I say, I am still trying to make come true. If I have a hundred years to live, it is certainly still a long way and I have no regrets living my life the way I had lived it.

I think I have some problems to deal with like taking control over my life and doing what I want and not be dependent alone on having money. Leadership roles to be taken, relationships to foster, missions to be done. With God's guidance I know He will help me.

What do you stand up for, but to be free!

To offer your services for free

Sometimes, because of the hard times I've had applying for a job, I thought of just working for free and offer my services for free. I just couldn't tell them you know I need money just to keep up even a few of it, and I'll be working for free. I could price my services high up maybe 50000 to a hundred thousand but I don't. Sometimes, I think why don't I just do that. Sometimes, I want to do this because I need to exercise my talents and the desires of my heart so that I can say I have done something that is close to my purpose in life. But then I think I need to find where I could do that or maybe simply I've got to try. I need to try now the unconventional. I have to ask. I have to ask for what I want. I've got to be creative about it. Just so I can do what I want, my life's purpose.

To life a fuller life

To live a fuller life means to have as much relationships I could have in my life. To find my purpose in life. To do what you want to do each day of your life.

I do not wish to waste my life in not living fully. I got to be at least happy for what I have accomplished all these years and I am very much excited about my experiences in life not that I have a few regrets for right now I still have some questions unanswered in my life and problems to tackle and solve and adventures to experience.

But you know that's life and you just have to be awake in the morning and welcome the new day and start on something new each day and continue the ones that are unsolved yet or yet lift them up to God so that He takes care of your problems and everything will just fall into place because that's what life is all about.

Have you wondered what your mission on earth really is. Me I think it's a combination of experiencing things like pleasure or desire and sometimes even pain to help you get tough but also there are higher things like feeding the hungry and giving to the needy and all. It could also be helping your family. I think I have a lot to do in this world but I need not be money bound that I couldn't help other people because I myself don't have money for my needs or for my family. There's something that I could do to at least give me an option to move into what I really wanted.

I often list my dreams and in one way or another they do come true. I felt I have done much to the world but still there are dreams to be made and make come true. Before, I thought that my mission extends only to my family as in being a good provider for my family but that hasn't come true only for a few years and now I wish to be rich and do that for my family but now not only for them but for other people as well.

I gotta move where I can reach. I gotta help other people. There are desires in my heart that want to get out and become reality such as teaching kids, feeding the hungry, giving to the poor and so on. But I gotta figure out a way to do that. And altogether, also solve my money problems. I pray to God each night that my dreams will come true for Him and for me and for everybody.

To count money

I have sometimes the feeling of being guilty when I surf the net for it will cost me or my mom or my sister some money in order to take advantage of this privelege. I've been out of work for some time but this is the only time that I became so conscious about not having money. Sometimes it would take you years to apply for a job. Very frustrating. I am counting the money that I spend for internet while I think that I have a grandma whom I cannot help because I do not have a job. We are not rich and so is my grandma but I know in her own way she is rich, I just wanted to help her. I could not afford so many things in this world that I wonder is it ever fair. All they could do it to give me a chance why don't they do that? Is it so hard to give a small share of the pie to somebody who is hungry? Sometimes the world is really unfair. The rich could talk about billions of money while the poor have only their daily needs. It is so unfair. I was wondering where the jobs go in this world. To the graduates? What if you don't have a college degree? I just wish for a miracle to happen in this world. Where everybody gets a fair share of the blessings that abound from God.

Sometimes my friends maybe wondering why I don't go out to the gimiks anymore. I just count the money. Today, you gotta have at least a thousand in your pocket when you go out. And to us, to me and to my mom that's already two weeks worth of food. So alas, I couldn't go. Just praying that I'll have a job so that I can help me and my family.

Henry Sy and John Gokongwei were some of my idols. They started a poor fellows and now they own some of the big businesses in the country. I dream that I can be like them. I was wondering how they did it. They must have dirtied their hands and met up with people and sold their stuffs and used their minds to build up their businesses the way they have achieved now.

I got to imitate them and somehow do what they did so that I could count plenty of money in the future under my name and accomplishments. I gotta start now. Somehow, I feel I have wasted my 10 or 12 years of not working but then I grew up and the experiences I have had during those times contributed to who I am now and how I live today. I have some idea on how to start on something today but I am learning about it everyday for money making has been a challenge for me. Maybe there's a block like for example I hate accounting and I felt it has followed me all these years in every move I make in jobs or business what I think was a lesser choice of having taken up accounting as a college course. Sometimes, I wish I had shifted to MassCom or Business Management and graduated earlier so that I could focus on working early on. You see I am motivated to work only nobody gives me a chance. Anyway, I believe that in the end all will work out and that the world or God works for justice and that everything will follow through if not today maybe tomorrow, I still hope.

The Speed of Time

Time flies fast. You're busy with your life doing the things that you do and all of a sudden it's been 10 or 12 years. You didn't actually plan out the things that happened in your life but they are there. Sometimes they appear in the form of joy, sometimes in the form of problems. And you find yourself fixin' those problems. What you need to do is be aggressive and provide solutions to your problems. Don't let them just stay there but be aggressive and solve them. You don't follow just where life leads you, you lead your life. You make your life. You gotta have 10 to 12 solutions to a given problem so that you'll be able to solve them and make your life worth it. For me, the younger years of my life are over. It's time to get serious in life and do my goals. My twenties were spent just enjoying my days, learning, discovering and making mistakes. This time I want to achieve goals. There's got to be something out there for me and I am willing to discover it. I hope I discover it soon.

Does it really take money to be able to do the things you want in this life? Maybe I need to find a source of income first before I can proceed with my goals. Right now, I am depending on my mom and sister. Thanks to them I have something to lean on. As for me, I hope and pray that plenty of opportunities come my way starting right now. If not, I'll stir up something and make doors open up for me. I have to pray real hard for this. Hope God will answer my prayers soon. And I am also praying for the other people out there who have the same financial needs and not so financial needs in their lives. I hope God blesses us all!

I hope the next 10 to 12 years of my life will be a fruitful one. I hope after those years I could say I have accomplished something in my life and be proud of it. It's time to act. It's time to stretch those muscles. It's time to fly! Cheers to the next 10 to 12 years of my life with others.

Milking cow

Came across a book at National Bookstore about how you can create extra 1,000$ or 500$ per month from what you know. It should be an interesting book concerning your talents being used to make money. I hope I can do that easily so that I wouldn't have to go through the routines of employment which is hard to come by. Gotta make cash!

Investment in books

I have recently invested in books and these are my investments:

1. God is a Salesman by Mark Stevens.
2. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker.
3. Find Real Happiness by William Gracian.
4. Turning your Great Idea into a Great Success by Judy Ryder.
5. Go Negosyo 21 Steps on How to Start your Own Business by Dean Pax Lapid and Ping Sotto.
6. Entrepreneur's How to Finance your Business
7. How to Turn Thought into Things by Bo Sanchez.
8. How to Live a Life of Miracles by Bo Sanchez.
9. Trump The Art of the Deal.

Plus, two issues of Entrepreneur magazines.

Hope to learn nuggets of wisdom in these.

Relationships can bring in the peso

I believe that with fruitful relationships come the peso. Maybe there is a reason I am poor at the present. I don't have that much relationship yet with other people for in the past I have concentrated on my family. Now, I would like to build new relationships and cherish the old ones with friends. If I relate with the right person then comes in the peso. I have yet to prove that.

At 34, I haven't brought back the bacon for about twelve years now. But I tried to. It was just not natural for me to work when I was younger. All I was doing back then was living the life that I wanted. Studying, going to the malls, internet surfing and doing my passions. Plus I didn't have the chance to work since they would reject me often at job applications. Until now, I don't know why. But that's all in the past and now at 34 I want to regain all the income that I would have made if I worked continuously. Not that they don't reject me anymore but I want to start on something aside from employment. Maybe I could become a part-time real estate agent or be a salesperson of different products. Or maybe start a small business. To me money making is a challenge and I am willing to take it. I am willing to learn it.

Going back to what I have said before maybe I am poor right now because I don't have much relationships that make the peso come in. And that's what I am doing. I have to reach to people. I have to know them. I have to befriend some people so that I will be successful and in return have money in my pocket.

What people can bring you

People can bring you so much and vice versa. You can bring much to a life a one person. Being in this world all together with different experiences makes it all the more exciting to live one's life here on earth. The sharing and the caring are what adds to life that makes life worth living. People accumulate different experiences in life and to be able to share it and share the lessons that go with it is what makes it important. Sometimes, you cannot imagine it just by thinking about it but actually feeling it and experiencing it, the relationship as you go on with it. You have to have the courage to feel the emotions of a relationship and be willing to give of yourself so that life becomes fuller.

The Golden Rule

I am looking into ways how the Golden Rule can really apply into my life and how I can get something that I truly want for myself and for my family. Especially now that I am looking for a meaning in my life I think the golden rule can be a principle or a lesson to be learned when you live your life and how you can get the most out of it.

I think I have to apply it with the relationships that I have in my life. In the past, I have concentrated my relationships with my family. I disregarded relationships with friends for I have prioritized my family first. But now, it is different for now I wish to concentrate now on building relationships with friends and family at the same time.

I often wondered where to meet people whom I will consider as friends. But sometimes, life just gives you the people you meet even though you didn't plan to meet them. It's just like fate. When God has a hand in everything you do, He certainly delivers to you the best of His blessings and more.

I hope to write more about this in the future.

The meaning of success

It could mean a lot of things to a lot of people but for me success is:

1. Doing what you want in your life. That's the key. Doing your passion. Using your talents and skills. Making sure that you share them with others. For others' good. Doing your purpose. For me it may mean writing or art. Sometimes it isn't finished yet. I have yet to discover my purpose and wants. But I'm gonna start at it even though it isn't finished yet, eventhough it isn't perfect yet. I have to do something today. I have done for my family in the past. Now, I want to focus on friends. Everyday I discover something new about myself and I learn more. You need not be perfect to start something. You go as you please. You do what you want to achieve in life. And I think a common purpose is love. It is very profound.

2. Money. Worldly as it may seem, I want money. Because I don't have much of it. It has always been challenging for me to make money because first I don't experience the need of it except in time of need or sickness. I have always my mom to answer for my needs. But now that I am 34 I want to change that and you know making 10000 pesos a month isn't that bad after all for me. Just to make a buck. Just to make something. It has been a challenge. I need to align my wants, my knowledge, as incomplete or imperfect as it is to the work that I will be doing to make money. And of course to have something more. Never had a car. Never financed a long term study of my interest. Never ate in a hotel. Never ride a plane. Never had a business. But I was full of study. I learn all I can about business, and the arts, and writing or about stories by reading books, magazines and watching television, internet surfing. I want to be rich. It has been a childhood dream!

3. Fame. Yes, that's another worldly aspiration. But I do have that dream of becoming famous one day in my life. Being well known for what you do, for where you're good at. That's why I wanted to become and actress or an athlete, or a writer, or a famous entrepreneur and businessman. I want to enjoy that good gift of God to a person deserving it. I like public relations, public speaking. Right now, if I am gonna achieve fame I have to do some actions to reaching my dreams. I need to work on my dreams and become famous afterwards. I want to be important. I want to have lots of friends. I want to know a lot of people. I want to do for others. I want to serve my mission here on earth. I want to live fully.

4. Finding one's purpose in life. To be reconciled with God. To let go and let God. To let God guide you in your purpose in life. To share your life with family, friends and society. To do something about what life throws at you. To grow in God's love. To find meaning in life. To just be there in your life and do the best that you can be. To succeed in life.

Money making lessons

It is very important for me to succeed. In my ten years of not working, I have done what I wanted being young. But now that I am all grown up and 34, I want to do what all people in the world do that is to work. Part of the reason why I didn't work for ten years is that I was not accepted in jobs. I would always ask God why this thing happened to me, maybe it happened for a reason, maybe it was just a natural consequence of a past action that employers didn't like. It would always puzzle me. But another side to it is that I didn't pursue a career that I love even if it deviates from my college education. I was just passing away time and doing what I wanted and having dreams that I would have wanted to accomplish. I am happy. But now that I am 34 I need to make money already for my own keep. I think I need to try out something more than handing out resumes. I need to connect with people who are concerned with the things that I wanted to do for myself. It may be hard or uneasy but I need to do it so that my dreams would come near me. This is the time. The time is now. There is no other time. I am gonna keep on my goals. Until I achieve them. Anyway, I've got about 66 years before getting to a hundred if I'm gonna reach a hundred on this earth. But first I have to try it little by little. Little by little everyday for man is a creature of habit. Once I learn it now, it would be easier in the future. If everything happens for a reason, I surely want to know what that reason is and I would go on everyday and master excellence. I would like to be a man of my own fate. Do the things you want. Even if it's hard. Even if it hurts. It would be easier as I go on. And on and on. Life is life.

To keep at your goals

It's the middle of January, the first month of the year 2010. During the new year, it was a time a making goals. And now that it's the middle of the first month of the year, you try to check whether you are inching your way to your goals or not. What's important is that you have the discipline to make it as you dreamed it to be. Make everything possible to make it. It's always right to check your accomplishments everyday if you are making your goal. You have to step on the problems that come your way, the challenges to move you forward your goal and thus, make you a better person, a person better equipped to handle tomorrow's trials. What's important is what you learn from it as a person, to make you a better person, to know better the next time, to use your talents for others and not limit yourself to a job description but to fully recognize your potential and what you can achieve in life. I think it takes the right leadership to make your life right. Do what you have to do in life and everything will follow.

Relationships to foster

I am thinking of ways to connect with people to start something like having a common goal or passion or aspiration. Here are the groups of people:

1. Go to artists. Someone passionate with the arts and use my talents in art. Maybe it be writing, photography, drawing, designing, music, singing, filmmaking. It may mean having to enroll to study an interest and practicing it to make something out of it and make it a career or make money out of it.

2. Go to athletes. Billiards for one. To know the mechanics of how to join tournaments.

3. Go to businesspeople. Share their minds. Learn something about business and put it into practice. Make business establishments and be successful.

4. Go to religion. To sustain you in your spiritual growth. To have a deeper relationship with God and others.

5. Just make friends. Who knows what kind of relationship you will foster.

To have a shared goal makes the journey worth taking. Finding their uniqueness also makes the difference quite interesting.

Formulas for making money

I've got three formulas for making money, so far I have yet to prove or be successful at them. Here they are:

1. Apply for a job. I have overused these formula. Still without any success. Jumped over 4 of them. But I guess no regrets. It was my decision. It's all a learning process. If you have to depend on employment for your sum of money make sure you have enough savings to last you until you finally land a job.

2. Study and then go find a job. I have used this formula also studying computer courses but to my dismay they require a bachelor's degree. How about those who can't shell out tons of money for a long-term study or those who do not have time. Still wasn't successful.

3. Establish a business. With P2000 I can probably start a small time business that I can grow depending on my abilities as an entrepreneur. I guess the basics of making money is that you find something everyday and not wait forever to find something. This I have yet to prove.

Making money and reaching people

Making money and reaching people are related. In this world, it is inevitable to relate with people in order to make money.

I have overly used the formula of applying for a job to find money and without success. Now, I turn to studying through books and magazines and tv shows how to be in business. I like studying to very basics of business which is relating with people to earn something in order to eat something and finding your true passions.

Maybe I need to focus on reaching to people in order to make money. Definitely, in sales you have to contact people. That's also like building relationships with people. I like to have long-term relationships with people if only I can choose to relate with them for a long time. I should not be money-bound meaning not being able to move where there is not money. But that's a hard task. Once I discover how to really do that then maybe making money wouldn't be as hard. I got to take advantage of what's free in this world. I got to reach out to other people concerning my talents and skills such as writing and relate with them. So that I could write for money. In acting, I gotta join auditions, acting groups, talent agencies, broadcasting companies. In play or sports, I gotta reach out to coaches or trainers and ask them about the sport, how to become an athlete, how to play for money.

The basics of making money is maybe this. What do you like doing? Even when you are a kid.
Then everything falls back there.

How to ask people for money? What's your purpose in life?

How to ask people for money? That's another question.

That's something that I have yet to learn.

I have yet to uncover what is the most effective way for me to ask for money. Like what do I value in people? How do I see them in terms of work? What's the work nearest to my heart.
I have yet to discover.

For example, I am thankful to my sister who has bought me this laptop to aid me in writing. I couldn't have done it without her help. Thanks to such a blessing! If not I wouldn't be able to write at least in a computer and that would be much bothersome to write through pen. Couldn't practice my typing skills. I wouldn't be able to say the things I wanna say in a given day since writers have to say what they want to say or so they will have to go through life silent. A writer's ideas should be heard or else they are wasted in the wasteland. Or yet others would say it since an idea which is the same could pop out of somebody else's mind or another writer.

Maybe I see them as lovers. People. I meant to have a close, intimate relationship with other people that I see them as potential lovers, agape, to have a close relationship with.

Maybe I could see them better also as fans for an ability I possess. Maybe it would totally be satisfying if I could be an actor or an athlete and be public to people and at the same time have close relationships with chosen people. It's not all about money. It's yourself. What you at least have to do for yourself. What your heart feels. I have to go public. It's my interest of public relations even as a kid.

Maybe as a communicator. I have to say what I have to say in this world, in this life. All the beautiful things that could be said to a person. About life. About love. What needs to be done. What needs to be said. I have a yearning to say something. Something valuable to life.

To find one's purpose. There are a lot of things to do in this world. You can choose from a billion of tasks. But what does really matter? Does it always have to be about making money? Maybe if I find my purpose in life then I can make money.

Where could I find a few bucks?

I am looking for ways on how to earn a few bucks. But sometimes, especially at the stage of my life I want to do it with somebody or others. Here are a few ideas:

I could sell newspapers everyday since I love the papers. I love reading and I can get hold of all the periodicals available in the country. It involves only a small capital but maybe with small earnings too.

I could sell food. I can cook food and serve or cater to customers who may want to taste my kind of food. I love to cook and eventhough I still don't have money for a culinary arts degree, I do have some cookbooks and so I can put into use my passion for cooking. I could always start with a small capital for some cooked food.

I could sell my writing. I love to write. But don't know where to sell. I have some ideas for what to write like a book or a magazine article, some helpful tips. I still have yet to research some paying companies for a book or an article originally written.

I could go into sales. Lots of opportunity to sell. Lots of products to choose from. Maybe I can put into use my selling skills. Just don't know where to start. I am still unsure yet about selling since that's not my natural talent when I was a kid. Sort of shy to sell. But my inclination to sales is there especially that I want to become financially independent and want to make it big and say something to the world that I can contribute something in terms of sales. Gotta try and try until my heart breaks!

I could study to become a mechanic. Be it a car mechanic or a computer mechanic or a cellphone mechanic. There are short courses out there to study these topics and maybe I can learn a thing or two about tinkering on these machines and even dabble on it for hours in a shop I can own someday after being an expert on these machines. The courses are cheap. Are they worth it?

I could act. Or go into media work. I can act in a commercial and be an extra. That's worth something. I can go into theater or filmmaking. Maybe start as a crew or staff and be in the world of entertainment. Study scripts and stories or even make one. I can also go into freelance photography. Maybe I can write a photographic book under my name.

I could play sports for money. I can be an athlete and play for the country. Like billiards perhaps. There's no harm in trying.

And other mundane things.

Those are my ideas and maybe I can put them into action.

The things I'm gonna be missing when I start working again:

1. Waking up late.
2. Staying up late.
3. Watching tv all day.
4. Going to the mall on a week day, on office hours.
5. Being able to attend to my interests such as art, photography, free seminars in business or on my interests.
6. Playing sports.
7. Entertaining career plans in acting or sports.
8. Entertaining study plans on either a short course, a two-year course or a four-year course.
9. Not having money. Ha! Ha!
10. Devoting time to studying about business even on my own way such as reading business books, business mags, Entrepreneur, watching Bloomberg.

Things I'll have when I start working again:

1. Money. Lots of money.
2. Achievement. To use one's talent in business e.g. accounting job.
3. Peach within oneself (that you are one with the others in the pursuit of industry in this world)
4. Network. To be with friends once again.
5. Contribution. To family, friends and society.
6. Probably a car.
7. A house.
8. Food from delicious restaurants, clothing.
9. Electronics
10. Investments

To apply for an accounting job

I am applying for an accounting job again and everytime I do at least at some intervals of my application as an accountant I somehow feel again that feeling that I am leaving the comforts that I have of not having an accounting job and just doing the things that I love to do even though it means not having any work. Anyway, it isn't my fault I'm not an earning writer, actress or athlete, it isn't easy to become famous. After all these years, you wish you have started on something and not go back to the vicious cycle of applying for an accounting job even if you don't love it and deep inside you you know that you want to do something else you just don't have anybody believing in you yet like a publishing company or a talent manager or a coach. I'm 34 and I'm wondering what others like me are doing in their lives at this age. Some are working, I don't know if they love their jobs, some have their own families already. Me, I just might turn into something that gives me meaning in my life like maybe volunteering to an organization or maybe becoming a nun or maybe studying theology but I have yet to save money for that. The problem is I don't think I have any money making skills. Others have so much and they make so much money. Me, I don't think I have anymore ideas left for making money. I don't know if I can learn sales, I don't know if I love sales. Maybe someday I'll find out I don't like business and taking up accounting is one definite wrong move for me. So, right now I don't know what exactly are the steps that would take me to being financially independent. I am all grown up and all those years of not working made me more strong to face whatever challenge there is in life. Maybe I am not blessed financially but in all other aspects I am well and I am taking every challenge everyday with God's help with all the endurance and determination that I have gained from all of my experiences all these years and I know I am just doing great. I just have to find out what's there for me and I know God will guide me wherever I may go.

The challenge to find work

Working has been a challenge. They say do something you love and making money just comes naturally. I wonder how many percentage of people really enjoy the work that they do. Or are they just doing it for money? Me, I have to start doing it now. And make adjustments for later. It's a continuous striving to do what you're meant to do. I hope to finally do it!

To find meaning

Sometimes in your life you stop and you look for the meaning in youf life. Me, I think I have reached that moment already and right now I am looking for meaning in my life. Maybe it has something to do with my life's decision on whether to marry or not or to take the religious life. God knows. What's missing in my life or maybe is there a problem that makes the void in my life. Very well, I'll figure that out. Maybe that has something to do with my age 34 turning 35 this year 2010. Maybe it has something to do with work or accomplishment. I want to relate working to accomplishing something and not only for making money as I am very familiar with because I am an accountant. The only problem I have is not making money but I naturally enjoy my life with my mom. For me, I have done my part in my family being always with them and trying to help them emotionally, physically and spiritually. Making money is always a challenge as we are not rich and I have not been given opportunities for employment. I don't have that business savvy yet and all I knew how to do is to act and be an athlete or a writer but it isn't easy to claw your way up. It isn't easy to be famous. You go on living and you discover something new everyday and you learn something everyday and you hope to live according to how God sees your life to be and always enjoy goodness in your life.

Concerning people

I want to concern myself about people. There are lots of things going on in the lives of people and somehow I want to share or help along the way. Gotta find life.

A promise of life

A promise to be rich. That's what I want to promise myself starting this 2010. I read somewhere that everybody has got money problems both the rich and poor. So what do i differ from the rich or the poorest none except that each day I strive to achieve my goals moneywise and non-moneywise. Sometimes I try to extend my stretch to something beyond money like being profound or having a mission. Doing God's purpose. Maybe having fame would do. Or maybe just plain having fun. I wonder what it is that awaits me.