Think about family connections.
You may have worked after school and summers for your uncle who owns a dry cleaner. Being smart, you learned a lot about the dry cleaning business. Do not regret this time. You are fortunate. You have a leg up over your peers. Do not casually dismiss this advantage. Cleaning clothes isn’t glamorous but it is steady, gainful employment. It will pay the bills and could lead to much more.
As a Master of Success, you may have a 10-year plan to buy six dry cleaners along with the commercial real estate that house them.
Along the way, you build the business with exemplary customer service. You look for opportunities to sell the individual store sites or the entire chain for top dollar. Your plan is to sell the dry cleaner businesses but keep the real estate. Collect the rent and then play golf every day. Better yet, play golf at Augusta, Pebble Beach and Saint Andrews.
You may have been the teenager who was laughed at for smelling like dry cleaning fluid.
Now you are in your fifties, retired, and no one is laughing.
