The Delusions of Money
Yesterday, I sold my second book on eBay. I woke up checking my email with the notice that a Insurance Term Dictionary had been purchased for $8.99. This was the second book I had sold this week.
As I went back to sleep, I thought about the journey I had started four weeks ago to create an income of $10,000 a month. The source of my item was from my own inventory. Learning the process took about three weeks. Listing the item, creating a workflow that included sorting, picture taking, creating a storage system, packing options, mailing options, and expense tracking (stapling the postage receipt to the back of my notebook until I figure out a filing system).
Labor V.S. Self-Employment
There hasn’t been any joy working for someone else. Getting a job is the last thing that I want to do. And from my last experience, nine months ago, I don’t want to go back. I experienced age discrimination. I realized that young people may have a bias of hiring older people. That might be a limiting belief for me, but having a job as my only source of income has also been a limiting belief that I am now dismantling.
Learning A New Way of Earning Money
If I was consistent on learning how to sell on eBay years ago, I could have had a business. The fact is, it wasn’t on my radar. The fact is, working a job drains most of your energy at the end of the day. The demands after you get off work and other commitments leave most of us without any time to develop new skills.
I now have time to build up my capital to learn another skill to get better returns. The sky is the limit. What I learned this week is that the way we earn money is changing right before our eyes. The old system is crumbling and being replaced. I have a new excitement in my life as I can now learn new things which bring me a lot of joy. I know now that it’s not the money that I’m after.