Just had to share this! :o)

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A wonderful friend sent this to me today - hope this brings a smile to your

face and revives your entrepreneurial spirit!

 

Have a Blessed Day!

 

Tammy Doering

 

The Mud QueenTM

 

 

 

An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three

kids.

 

He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude

test.

 

The human resources manager tells him, " You will be hired at minimum wage of

$5.35 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the

loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you

when to start and where to report on your first day. "

 

Taken aback, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor

an e-mail address.

 

To this the manager replies, " You must understand that to a company like

ours that means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address

you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day. "

 

Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his

wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25 lb.

crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy

corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the

tomatoes and makes 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more

that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with

several bags of groceries for his family.

 

During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. By

the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the

night. He multiplies his profits quickly.

 

Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of

tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a

broken-down pickup truck.

 

At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their

neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying

the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the community

college so she can keep books for him.

 

By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and

employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He

continues to work hard.

 

Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks

and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the

boys manage. The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless and

jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed over

one million dollars.

 

Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance.

 

Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his

new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order

to send the final documents electronically.

 

When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and

has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, " What, you don't have

e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be today if

you'd had all of that five years ago! "

 

" Ha! " snorts the man. " If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be sweeping

floors at Microsoft and making $5.35 an hour. "

 

Which brings us to the moral of the story:

 

Since you got this story by e-mail, you're probably closer to being a

janitor than a millionaire.

 

Sadly, I received it also.