An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft
as a janitor. The manager there arranges for an aptitude test. After
the test, the manager says: "You will be hired at a salary of $30
per day. Let me have your E-mail address, so that I can send you a form
to complete and tell you where to report for work each day."
Taken aback, the unemployed man states that he is neither
in possession of a computer nor of an E-mail address.
To this the MS manager replies: "Well, then, that
means that you virtually don't exist and therefore cannot expect to
be employed."
Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and
only having about$10 left, he decides to buy a 10 lb box of tomatoes
at the supermarket. In less than 2 hours, he sells the tomatoes singly
at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he
ends up with almost $100. And thus it dawns on the man that he could
quite easily
make a living selling tomatoes. Eventually he multiplieshis profits
many-fold in quite a short time.
Not long thereafter, he acquires a cart to transport
several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again shortly
afterwards on a pick-up truck. By the end of the
second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages
a staff of a hundred former unemployed people,all selling tomatoes.
Considering the future of his family, he decides to buy some life insurance.
Calling an insurance agent, he picks an insurance policy
to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation,
the agent asks for his E-mail address in
order that he might forward the documentation.
When the man replies that he has no E-mail, the agent
is stunned, "What, you don't even have E-mail? How on earth have
you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, E-mail and e-commerce?
Just imagine where you would have been by now, if you had been connected
from the very start!"
After a moment's silence, the millionaire replied: "I
would
have been a janitor at Microsoft!"
Morals of the story:
1: The Internet, E-mail and e-commerce do not need to
rule your life.
2: If you don't have E-mail, but work hard ... you can
still become a millionaire.
3: Seeing that you got this story via E-mail, you're
probably closer to becoming a
janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.
