Are you a successful director of one big company, or a dentist with a lot of patient queue every day? Or do you own one success textile factory? Are you a smart investor with a lot of blue chip stocks on your hand? If your answer is YES, then I expect you are thinking that your current occupation is the safest occupation in the world.

A lot of people doesn’t always aware that everything changes fast in hidden, as someone says the only one thing that never change is the changing itself. So, in this article I want to remind again four main occupations that unsafe for all of us.

Those occupations are:

1. Employee

Whether we are just an ordinary staff in small company or competent director of big company, our job is not secure for us. Someday, economic recession can hit our serviced small company and need to cut their budget or even bankrupt. If we just ordinary staff with average performance, we may get into the list of fired employees, and we will lost our job. Or maybe we are a very competent director and economy is getting well, then our company has a merge with other bigger company with other very competent and strong backup director candidate from other merged company, I guess that we must ready to quit our director position.

2. Self Employed

Let’s say about owning one small fast food outlet, with sufficient visitor every day, in the corner of busy road. Then one day, for instance, one 100 meters prohibited parking beacon is placed right in front of our outlet. People who used to visit our outlet are hard to get parked, and we lost our visitor that means lost our income. Another example is a professional doctor, some unintentionally malpractice can be happened, and for sure we lost our job and income.

3. Rich Entrepreneur

Don’t we remember Charles Schwab, Arthur Cotton, Leon Frazier, or other rich persons who got bankrupt because of a lot of reason? They have some golden period of glory, but have to die in poverty.

4. Investor

There are a lot of very smart investors in NYSE, but got stress and bankrupt during recent US stock market crisis. Nobody can expect such crisis, that’s a “Black Swan” (I use terminology popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb for unexpected big phenomenon with big effects), and none of investor is safe from this occurrence.

Wauw, in fact those four occupations have encompassed all occupation in the world! Means, there’s no really safe occupation in this world.

So why some rich people still rich after deep recession while others are bankrupt, or why one “nobody” is able to become a rich people just in several years.

The answer is simple:
1. They always prepare for the worst thing in their life, business, or career.
2. They always try to learn something new every day, make some innovation and leading.
3. They do good assets allocation.
4. They have multiple streams of income.

This receipt will make us survive in the heaviest situation, and growing pass through the continuous changing in our life.

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