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Move From a Low Paying Job to a High Paying Career

But if you think it,Be a Salesman:
Why would you ever want to be a salesman? In order to profit more from your efforts. You could be working the 40 hour job. working barely above minimum wage. Or you could spend half that time preparing for the high paying career, and the other half creatively selling your services. Each of us has talents-we just use them differently. This isn’t meant to sound general; it will be clearer with the following steps.
You need not go door to door to sell yourself, or make hundreds of calls. What you do need is a willingness to capitalize on all your talents.

Resume Dynamics:
Writing a resume is what many fail at. It doesn’t matter what sites you submit to or the resume doctor you hire. It should be your words, your experience, and your ability to sell yourself as a quality person to hire. This becomes crucial when you meet with clients and know everything your resume highlights (because you wrote it). Some people will dash through the resume or just hire someone else to write it. The first solution is flawed, usually because of spelling errors and odd language. No one will hire you with a resume full of typos. The second solution is problematic because you can do all this yourself, and it’s a necessary tool for future careers.
Read some articles on quality resume writing (there are only a couple thousand). Ask others to read it, like friends or loved ones. Write multiple resumes to expand on each of your skills. Develop different objectives for each resume, focusing on the various companies you want to work with.

Consider the boss, Consider the Important Referral:
You are ready to quit the low paying job. You have sent out your resume and you are getting some bites. It’s now time to consider what you will do with the current job. For one, you want to leave on a good note. Nothing sounds better than a pleasant boss who says you can use him as a referral. Nothing is worse than ruining a referral and months or years of work by leaving a job on a bad note. If you curse out your boss, all you really gain is a few moments of joy. A job you worked at for a year or more is good on any resume. It proves you are willing to work. If you want to keep moving up the ladder to higher paying work, referrals are crucial.

Build a Portfolio:
This is where the work gets tricky. You will need referrals to continue moving to higher paying jobs. Say you are a freelance accountant who works from home on most days. On odd days, when work is slow, you can do more than organize your office. Consider developing an expanded resume-a portfolio you can hand to potential clients. Much of the world is working freelance. If you aren’t, a portfolio can still help others see your skills from the outset. It also reminds you of what sells, and what companies value as important. Going to a job with a well-designed resume and plenty of referrals will get you a job. Whatever you do, document it, providing examples if possible. This provides a backup to your resume-proof you did this work and can do it again.

Focus, Focus, Focus:
Try to specialize in the beginning, learning just what you need to know. There is an old rule in many fields that specializing will get your foot in the door. If you know how to fix TVs, fix every kind of model you can. Then, move beyond your niche market-fix VCRs and DVD players. This is the way to get more profit: Specialize in doing one thing, while working on expanding into other fields.

Finish Line:
The last step is to sit back and really decide if you can do all this work, if you can juggle all these things in your mind. Maybe you should go back to school instead. Maybe another year of less pressure with the current job will work out. Otherwise, the beginning will often be tough. Look to the bottom line. Only become satisfied when you have less pressure, less hours, and more pay. You can be happy or sad at any time during this. It may be stressful all by itself. What is important is to think of doing it, and then actually taking that first step-doing it.