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Use Your Current Job as College or Temporarily Work in the Field You##Q##d like to Start Your Business In

XP3College_About_ImageNo matter how much we hate our current jobs the best way to look at the situation, Iโ€™ve learned, is to start using my jobs as โ€œcollege.โ€ I used Urban Network that way when I worked there many years ago. There was a lot of strife, in-fighting and power struggles amongst the management. I let them beat the hell out of each other while I learned how the system worked. When they fired me, which I knew they would eventually, I took what I learned and started my own industry trade magazine and there was nothing they could do about it. My employer became my competitor and my brand is still around. I##Q##m not bragging, I##Q##m making a point. Look at your job asย  Iโ€™m taking a course and Iโ€™m getting a stipend for learning. I give the job a certain amount of time to complete the required courses and when Iโ€™m done, Iโ€™m ready to graduate to earn my next degree in business. If I wanted to open a coffee shop, I##Q##d go and work at Starbucks for a year. What an invaluable experience and education that would be FIRST HAND…. AND I would be getting paid for it? Instead of going broke going to some overpriced college that wants me to take out student loans to learn how to do it for 2 years. Then I owe for my education when I could have gotten it, not just for FREE but PAID for it? I##Q##m sure you get the point.

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