Good Time To Get Started online
February 21, 2010 by paulsmerry
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If you were born in the fifties or early sixties, if you went to school in the sixties and seventies then you belong to a forgotten people. We were brought up to believe that loyalty to a company was a virtue that would be rewarded. We paid our taxes willingly believing that the government would take care of us in our old age. We trusted the government. Today we know we have been fooled. The government uses us as tax cows to finance one social experiment after another. The companies we gave our lives to cast us aside with no respect for what we have done for them. We are in effect on our own. The values we were brought up to believe in are our main handicap to success.
The government relies on us for taxes, they tax our wages, our pensions and our savings, yet they give us nothing back and listen to nothing we say, our views are ignored and the only people who can look forward to a comfortable retirement are taxpayer funded MPs, civil servants and the super rich. For the rest of us it’s a retirement of struggling to make ends meet, our small company pensions will be held against us when it comes to trying to claim any support, the autumn of our lives will be spent in rising poverty while the people who put us there live in luxury.
There is however a new phenomenon occurring. The rise of the middleaged entrepreneur. People who have spent their lives working for companies that have then cast them off, are refusing to lay down and die. Refusing to hold their heads in their hands and whinge. No a growing number of middleaged people are starting their own businesses to secure for themselves a comfortable retirement. I’m glad to say that I’m one of that growing band.
At fifty I’ve decided to take positive action to prevent myself from walking into a retirement of poverty. We can’t trust the government. We have to look after ourselves. So welcome to my blog. This is a blog that will follow me as I set up a new business and work with total commitment to make it work. I refuse to fail. I have fifty years of experience on this planet and I intend to use that experience to ensure the success of mu business.
My business is an arts and crafts supply business. I have chosen this because I have an interest in art being a novice painter and enjoy reading about and using art products. My fifty years on the planet has furnished me with many social skills which I will use to offer a total quality customer service. Every customer will be welcomed as a friend and provided with the best possible service.
I started my business on the first of January2008. I will sell on EBay and via my own website. The objective is to make enough money to retire at sixty something that can’t possibly be done working for someone else. I’m not a member of parliament so I don’t have the luxury of claiming expenses to the tune of £100,000 per year. I will, as I have always done, earn every penny I make. I’ll post progress reports at least once a week possibly twice a week. I Hope to build a community of like minded people, a community of 50 pluses in business where we can come to offer advice and support to each other. So let’s go.
