Reply #26: Find ANY survival job, then get to REAL work in your off hours [View All]

Aviation flight technology is a pretty specialized thing. I'm sure aviation flight technologists don't grow on trees. Surely there are people out there in the world (ANYWHERE in the world) who have need of somebody with this knowledge but can't find such a person who is handy--and if they ever could find such a person, they would pay $$$$.

Get out a legal pad and a pen and start making lists:

- Your first list should be ALL your skills and specialized knowledge, whatever they may be. If you're a great water aerobicizer, put it down. Editing will come later. MUCH later.

- Your second list should be ALL the things you like to do. Again, put everything you can think of down. Don't be shy.

- Your third list, which is the most difficult (but the most fun) to create, is a list of any person, place, or thing that would require the things on the first two lists. Again, put down ANYTHING you think of. Be very creative. This is where the rubber meets the road.

Spend a couple of days doing this. Anytime you think of something, write it down and add it to your lists.

Then go over all the lists and make connections you find between the items on all three lists. Write down and describe each connection you find at the top of separate sheets of paper. For the next several days, you will examine each connection and write down every single idea you have about each one on these sheets. Again, there are extra points for creativity and completeness with this, so take your time.

What is this all about? For one thing, it will make you feel substantially better about yourself and your worth to the business world, and it will give a tremendous amount of energy to do something that you like to do. Most importantly, though, when you are finished you will have a pretty good idea of some exclusive product or service...

-that people need.
-that you can provide and no one else can (at least as well as you).
-and most importantly, that you would LIKE and LOOK FORWARD to providing.

This is the sacred formula of a good business idea.

From that idea, you can turn to the free and cheap services of the Internet to get it out there and get it marketed and implemented. (There are a lot of books out there that talk about that in much greater detail than I can provide here.)

Does this seem like a lot of work for little tangible benefit? Yeah, it does, which is why most people DON'T do it and choose to remain slaving away at their shit jobs. But once you start the process, the ideas and opportunities will come. Believe me, it works.