Get Rich While Helping People

I was watching 60 Minutes one night. They were re-running a story on Jimmy Buffett. Not so much a story about his music. Rather a story about him as a business success. (If you didn't know, he is very wealthy.)

A whole lot of musicians make music without making money. A whole lot of nurses help patients without making money. A whole lot of teachers help kids without making money. "A whole lot of loan officers help people without making money!"

I saw a piece on some TV show one morning, about a doctor who does all kinds of reconstructions of body parts in latex for survivors of cancer, etc.

One lady has had to wear sunglasses everywhere she goes since she was a little kid, when she had to get radiation treatment for retinal cancer. It left quite an ugly cavity in, and around, her right eye.

They asked the doc how much these things cost. Some of which take 6 months or a year to construct.

He said, "Oh, only about $2,000.00 to $12,000.00. I'm not in this for the money."

I found this ridiculous.

Sure, some of your patients can't even pay you $500.00. But some can pay $100,000.00!

If you're gonna be a hippie about all this, why not charge the rich guy who needs a normal looking nose $100,000.00 for that.and then the little 5 year-old girl who needs an ear, and her mom and dad are broke.just give her hers for free?

You would be.oh about $85,000.00 to $100,000.00 better off over those 2 "deals." And you could get rich while helping people. And providing in both cases more value than you received in compensation.

I'm doing this tomorrow with this month's "charity deal." Saving a lady's house for only $3,000, because that's all there is to be made on it. I do one of these every month, just to help someone. Without me, she'd lose the house.

And if you are still uncomfortable with money, you can give most of it to charity. Having done yet more good for the world.

"But if you never get the dough, you can't give anything to charity!"

I just paid my monthly bills, and stroked a check to charity whose amount would surprise many people. But I couldn't do this if I didn't first get the money.

And this doctor on TV was about 50-60 years old. Hey doc, how about you make some money before you retire, so you don't have to live on Social Security, eat cat food, and take your medication every other day?

He'll be the same guy b!tch!ing in retirement that he's broke, and that the taxpayer should bail him out. A Kerry-Edwards sticker on his Volkswagen Beetle. .when he worked "for free" all those years! "And he could have been very wealthy, and done a ton of good for charity.all at the same time!"

Did you know that the "eeeeeevil" Bill Gates gave $3.3 billion to charity in 2004? See what I mean? If they're gonna call you a d!ck anyway, you may as well have some dough, and do some good. F@ck 'em if they wanna talk $#!t about you! "The higher you climb up the pole, the more your @$$ sticks out!"