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Are we in a recession? Are we in a depression? For the business owner, does it really matter? No matter what the financial analysts call it, you have to be acutely aware of all aspects of the business in order to do more than survive. I’ve always been the Do-It-Yourself type. Even when I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, I’d try it anyway. In the early days, it was because I couldn’t afford to pay anyone to fix things when they broke. Survival skills aren’t just limited to natural and economic calamities; it includes the city life as well. No matter what you have seen or heard, a recession is no match for Law of Attraction. Corporate downsizing, job losses, home foreclosures, and bankruptcies have been occurring at a rate that most of us haven’t seen in our lifetime.
In the past, most people expected that once they had been hired they had no need to be afraid of job loss and would stay in the same job for as long as they were happy there.
Here are her suggestions, along with her added emphasis to “start now”. Remember the following pointers the next time you feel uncertain about your financial potential:
Start An Emergency Fund
A Money Market account will do, it’s FDIC insured, and it will gain a little more interest than a regular Savings account. Just put in as much as you can afford every payday… You’ll surprise yourself in no time.
Get food staples
Keep bulk staples on hand. Potatoes were her family’s favorite staple. They had large bags of potatoes and made many food dishes out of them. Potatoes were inexpensive and convenient for her family to buy.
Become a Freelancer
If you have been working in the job market for some years, you will have some skills that are needed by someone in the world. Many business startups are looking for freelancers to help them in their projects, including computer programming, website design, virtual assistant, data entry and more.
Look at the local situation. Can you get an idea of which jobs are going to go and which are going to stay? Or will the whole company go down?
Avoid speculation and debt.
There’s an old saying in the stock market that goes something like this:
“The best way to make money in the stock market is not to lose any money in it.”
The next step evolved after the transformation of the wealth in to something as safe investment is to do some research and gain knowledge about the present situation and learn to survive the crisis situation, with a well qualified economic collapse survival guide.
The biggest thing to get over is the fear of the unknown. Like I said earlier in this article, if you can tie your shoes, you can do just about any do-it-yourself project.