FastTrack: 55 Ways to Get a Great Job Fast
by Angela Brown Oberer

Tricks to Always Getting Paid

Instead of getting a paycheck from a company for all of your work, seek out a company who will pay you per customer per job.

By doing this, you can never get laid off – because it is unlikely that all of your customers will “fire you” or discontinue the service all at once.

In the event that somebody quits the service, you still have money coming in from all the other accounts under your supervision.

Such jobs include construction, roofing, carpet cleaning, house cleaning, janitorial service, delivery services, dry cleaners, newspaper routes, dentists, psychologists, therapists, consultants, professional speakers, web designs, graphic arts, tutoring, piano teachers, karate instructors etc.

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Career Options

If you really need a job, go into sales.

Companies are always seeking good salespeople and often willing to pay top dollar for them.

If you are not comfortable being in sales, go to the library and bookstores and learn all you can about the art. Like anything else, it is a skill that must be practiced before it can be perfected.

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Work for Results

If you really want a job in a specific field and no one will hire you, volunteer to work for free and they don’t put you on the payroll until you produce results. It’s really hard for a CEO to turn away a bright person, who is enthusiastic about working for their firm, who is willing to show up on time and do an excellent job and work with no strings attached until they produce results (or in other words prove themselves.)

You are in essence offering a money-back guarantee. If you don't produce, you don't get paid. This is a no risk job hire for a company who may not have otherwise hired you.

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Guard Your Reputation

In work and in life people talk and gossip. Work with all the enthusiasm you have and do the best job you are capable of doing so when people talk about you – it is promotional.

Jim Rohn, the great business philosopher once said, “Time will expose or promote you.” Make everything you do worthy of the biggest loud mouth you know.

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Job Hunting Continued Below

Choose a Job with Long-Term Viability

• When looking for a job, think long term.
• Where will this industry take you?
• What will you learn from this position that you will apply to the rest of your life?
• Is this industry going to be around for a while?
• What is the market penetration for the product or service you will be representing?
• What is the purchase power of the customers? (If the market takes a dive will they discontinue your service, or do they need it so badly they’ll still come up with the money?)

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Happiness is Not a Job

Too often, we place happiness outside us saying, “I’ll be happy when… I have a job, when I get a new boss, when I get a raise, when I pay off my debt, when I get a new house etc.) And it is true that when we get that one thing that was supposed to make us happy, we want something else to make us happy.

Learn to be happy where you are now and then when you get a new job, a new boss, a raise or get out of debt, you will still be happy.

Happiness comes from inside, not from external things.

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Hang out with Your Cheerleaders

Cheerleaders are those who light a spark under you when you’re down, they boost your spirits and encourage you to go after the thing that you want and believe you can get it.

• During a job search, it is important to find cheerleaders who believe in you and your cause, and stay in very close contact with them. Your biggest cheerleader who has your best interests in mind and who knows what you are capable of is the one who created you.
• Trust, Leap and do not look back.

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Angela Oberer © 2008, Oberer is the author of the "Be Well Series".  You can send your questions and comments to her at: Angela@WordsofWellness.com