So far, I've been writing (and including) snippets from my book in the introductory part.  By this point in the book, I've made the opening statements (already shown,) a bio of sorts (hasn't been included here because my bio here does that,) the rudimentary beginnings of the book and what prompted me to write it, and now the actual reasons why I wrote the book.  This post might be kind of long but I don't thing it will be unreasonably so.

It will tell you what to expect throughout my series here.  Of course, only snippets will be placed here along with a short discourse on how it applies to WA members.  There will be two snippets I need to clarify here:

• About This Book...
• What This Book Is About 

These may look the same, but they're not.  There is a bit of difference between the two:  the first snippet  deals with why I wrote it; the second tells you what's in the book.

I can see there might be a bit of confusion here and have edited the text to make this clarification.  Otherwise it is unedited and how it currently appears in the actual text.

The second snippet shall read, "What's In This Book?"  It will be updated when I work on editing this section.  For now, it will stay as it is as copied to this post. 

HERE BEGINS THE TEXT FROM THE BOOK: 

About This Book...

I wrote the above to show you how I had made my transformation and completely turned my life around to make it success-ready! Please pardon the length of it. Now a bit about what this book is...and isn't, why I've written it and its purpose.

This book, in no way, is intended to be the absolute definitive guide to show you how to transition from a job that you dread going to every day and how to achieve the steps in mastering the ranks of entrepreneurship. It would take a voluminous tome or a multi-volume set to do the job.

However, the purpose here is to bring to light possibilities that are not only reserved for super-rich people, but for anyone who will reach out and take them. Though this book does do its part in educating the working-class members of our society pertaining to the simple things they can do to bring vast improvements to their lives (i.e. the transition,) it's main purpose is motivation.

The most important point here is the fact that people are caught up in conformity that kills, in most cases, the kind of possibilities that will help an individual rise up from the mediocrity that plagues the masses.

I, the author of this book, have not written this book to slam employment. It has its place in commerce and society and indeed, it is the best fit for most bread-winners. My books, courses or any other medium will never take the employment world by storm nor is that my intent here. Albeit, there are individuals out there (you know who you are) who realize that employment is not the best legal way to make a living. Many of you have the mind and capabilities which need to be awakened or nudged.

Who Am I that You Should Listen to Me?

At the time of this writing I'm part of the lowest class possible. Dennis Gilbert calls the class I'm in the underclass. William Thompson & Joseph Hickey gives it a nicer designation -- the lower class and Leonard Beeghley simply calls it the poor. My average yearly income was, when I had a job, between $8,000 and $9,000 per year. This has been my income level since the early 1990s. According to experts who determine who's who in the world of social class, I've got to earn double this amount just to get up out of the impoverished levels of social existence.

For all these years I've had a number of dead-end jobs. In more recent years my job positions were part time at minimum wage (or nearly so) levels. Many times you hear, "Climb the corporate ladder to reach the top." My problem has been that none of the job positions I've had with the exception of maybe one or two in all my years of employment came with such a ladder. I suppose more of them could have - with exceptionally arduous and incredibly slow progress up an eternally-long ladder to reach that top.

There's a more over-all account of my life though the years of my pitiful, yet unusual existence at the end of this book. The bit above is a record of what I went through to make necessary changes to my life. Throughout most of my life in the work-force, I've lived in abject poverty. Something has been wrong here - terribly wrong! Before you close my book, I request that you give me the benefit of the doubt and hear me out. Why would someone like me - with an AA college degree, be making the kind of income that people who are supported by the government, have limited or no participation in the labor-force and am now washing cars?

I'm now leveraging all I can with the pitiful resources I have available to me. It all starts with the matter between my ears. It's the same for anyone else who finds themselves in the same boat I'm in. I don't have the funds to get the kind of education I need to really succeed in life. The kind of success I'm talking about here is not that which most people believe is success. Some of the greatest education in life comes free to those who can see it.

There's still advice circulating around that does not work anymore. It is indeed advice from the Industrial Age - advice that worked not very long ago but has passed into into oblivion - unbeknownst to so many. Yet the same advice keeps circulating - catching yet more and more: Go to school. Get good grades so you will get a good job with good pay and benefits, that provides a pension for your retirement during your golden years in which you can live your American Dream. As good as advice as this sounds, it's a pipe dream these days as millions follow this wisdom and instead of finding the gold at the end of the rainbow, find disillusionment as they follow the leader down the conveyor belt to the slaughterhouse at the end. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow equates to nothing more than fool's gold and not worth the pot it's in.

Over the years, since the hippie movement, I've had an awful gut feeling about living the same kind of lifestyle as most people. On May 8th 1970, a shocking event occurred in New York City in front of City Hall. Construction workers with chauvinistic patriotism poured out of the then under construction Twin Towers and chased anti-war demonstrators through the streets, paying closest attention to those with the longest hair, clubbing them with two-by-fours and their hardhats. Known as the Hardhat Riot today, the sights and sounds from this ordeal was broadcast over national television and it had a profound effect on me when I saw it. The actual event would escape my memory for years to come but the feelings would not. I've always deplored having to get up and work in jobs that do nothing for me other than provide just enough of a paycheck to barely survive. I'm in debt now, have nothing to show for all the work I've done, alas, that which I do have is old and worn out. It's the same story for about 40% of people who find themselves trying to follow old advice and have come up gasping for air for about the third time now.

What's this Book About?

Something is seriously wrong with the social agenda of those who live their lives the way the masses do. One of the first things I discovered that most people don't, is that the way out of my predicament starts with the mind. Being a non-conformist with regard to living like everyone else in average living has been an on-going thing in my life. However, I have never had the right kind of education to implement other than counter-culture information. This did little more for me than keep alive within me the disdain for putting myself into what I always saw as slavery. The kind of information I had initially did its share of harm too. It helped me formulate belief systems which sealed shut the door to true success from me. I found myself in a void between the work-force and the right kind of education. That void has been the state of impoverishment and the end result of it - and a waste of nearly a half a century of my life, until there came a new dawning in my life - the cracking of the thick shell I had formed around me - my faulty belief system - the negative thoughts about money, wealth and excellence as realized by the financially independent.

Though in the early stages of my new life, I've got to start somewhere. I learned from the super-rich that the place to start was within myself - my mind. The important thing is that I've started. The next most important thing is that I've bitten into it and continue to clench my teeth into it. This is part of winning. Quitters will not win at this game. I have found incredibly empowering information. This is the information that makes millionaires. It's not an easy road and it's not for everyone, but anybody with average intelligence can do this. As I said earlier, this book is not an exhaustive course on how to get rich. It does introduce many of the concepts I've learned in my own quest to pull myself out of poverty. An important lesson I've learned about poverty is that it is more of a state of mind than anything else. It comes back to faulty core beliefs. This book talks about this and other things I've learned straight from the horse's mouth.

The book is about what I've learned in the last couple years. It will lead you to these sources and everything besides my own experiences come from these sources. Any occurrence of them are duly and thankfully credited, in this book's Acknowledgments, to the masterminds from which I've learned this potentially life-changing education. Read this book with an open mind. If it catches your interest, you probably have had less than glamorous thoughts about the idea of cramming most of your personal life, in limited and constrictive ways, to the weekends.

This book is broken down in four parts:

• Foreword (You're reading it now.)
• Part I is an overview.
• Part II is a more detailed study of the implications of employment.
• Part III shows you how you can transition from your job to the life you've been dreaming about.

Why this book? There are vast quantities of resources out there that teach how to successfully get a job. There are others which do teach personal development issues, managing time, health, how to budget your income, and even building businesses and investing. Many programs found in print and on the Internet mention the idea of working for a J.O.B. (Just Over Broke) and many of other negative implications that come with earning an income through employment. Though to find a guide on why it's ultimately not good for you to put all your eggs in the rickety employment basket, and spells out all the implications of being employed, is indeed rare. The aim of this book, therefore, is to motivate you to pursue your education to that which will empower you far beyond everything else you have learned in school, from well-meaning friends and family and masses which form our society.

I present this Guide which will leave no stone unturned when it comes to what it means to be employed and how you can get above the misery of working for your money in a job you dislike.