One of the biggest problems with schools these days is the fact that teachers don’t really teach you the life skills you need to actually make money.  (yes, hard cold cash)

So what?

Well, today I will teach you that important lesson, how to make money, not just slave away your life in a cubicle at a rich corporation.

As I was growing up and going to school, finishing up college, I began to notice more and more how badly my professors and TAs got paid.  Yes, they were still wearing worn-out jackets, clothing, all the while trying to save even more money by bringing sandwich bags.  What I really didn’t understand was how these people could teach me anything.  Well, the truth is that they didn’t teach me anything useful but they did teach me how life can be boring and same if you stay “in the box”.  I simply felt most of the A students/professors/TAs were all in the box, taking tests and life WAY too seriously.

Anyways, I was the guy in college who would skateboard to classes and bring all my “coolness” but most TAs and professors seem to see me as a smart-ass cool student who shouldn’t belong there.

So what does this have to do with everything?

It has everything to do with my post-college experience as I had already thought “out of the box” in college by being unique and different from the rest of population.

Had I isolated myself from the society?

Heck no, I had more friends who were like me, thinking out of the box, while all the A students had no time to play, social network, etc…etc…

Eventually, my opposition to authority and the “way” society teaches you life has lead to me doing something for myself, blogging.  Even if it’s not blogging, I believe that I’d be doing something for myself if I were not blogging right now.

My dad is one of the best international tradesmen/businessmen I know, he tells me before I goto college, “Son, just get Cs.  School isn’t so important.”   Let me also add that this is coming from a person who graduated at the “TOP” of his class, that’s right, number 1 out of couple thousand students.

Now, I was dumbfounded but I did follow his advice and “barely” graduated in 5 years, almost failing one class, but ended up with an A- simply because my TA hooked me up. (It was my last class and I missed the finals but the TA let me take it again since it was my last class)

After that, I somehow knew school was just an ideal platform for non-ideal people.  I mean, don’t get me wrong, I did learn whole bunch of calculus, physics, and engineering, but THAT doesn’t make you money.

The worst part was that after college, everyone told me to get a JOB!

I got a JOB and that was the worst part of my life, slaving like everyone else in the rat race.

Here’s one advice that will help you get out of the rat race and traditional stuff they teach you in school:

“DON’T get a JOB!  GET A LIFE!”

Even if you do have a job, you still have to keep trying every minute, hour, day, and that’s all I can tell you.

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The same goes for any internet web business whether you are making $50K/month on Adsense or whatever, it’s the trust you build with your partners, clients, and customers.

Trust is like that flying carpet that will catch you when you fall off the building.

Apart from money, if you don’t have trust from your fellow blogger and customers, you will not be able to succeed in long term.  Of course, you might be able to make a quick buck and jet off to some tropical island, but that’s probably going to be the end of your internet marketing career.

I have many friends who are in high places in business including a lot of my family and cousins.  They all do their business on one thing and one thing only, trust.

I am glad to say that most of my friends are people I can trust.  They are the ones that will bail you out when you are at the lowest of the low, penniless and about to hit the streets.

In Asia, and especially Korea where I grew up until I was 9 years old, there’s a big thing with trust.  Trust is the only thing that matters.  You can be the smartest guy in the world but if people can’t trust you, they will not do business with you or even think of you as a decent human being.

As such, I highly suggest you to do business with people you trust, not people who will burn the bridges, fork a knife on your back, etc…etc…

You should ask yourself this question, do you trust the people you work with?

If not, you are probably in the wrong job, business, and should find something better to do with people you can trust.

In my web business, I never do any business with anyone I can’t trust.  Even my publishers, affiliates, and companies that I work with, are everyone I trust.

Trust can come easily but maintaining it is the hard part.  If you can build a long-term relationship (at least 2+ years) with other bloggers/businessmen, you will always have someone to help you out in the hard-times.

Good Drug dealers know who to trust.

I know “good” drug dealers (who never get caught) are good at this as a lot of my college friends did some slanging back in college.

I watched them and thought, “Wow, these guys know what they are doing… they never get caught.”.

The one thing I noticed about my friends was that they never sold anything to anyone they didn’t know and everything was through best friend’s referrals.  (sorta like today’s affiliate programs)

Heck, I know they were good because although they are not selling schmooze anymore, they all are doing well and have never been caught.

I took that experience of watching my roommates as a life-long experience and today, I never buy or sell anything with anyone I cannot trust.

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