Everyone I’ve ever known (I don’t know too many very, very rich people) has, at some point or time, wanted or needed, extra money. Take, for example, Sarah.
She was the oldest woman I ever met.
Sarah, a patient of mine at a nursing home I worked with, was ninety-eight. She was a very small African-American woman with a beautiful braid that went down past her waist.
She told me an amazing story. She never married yet she bought her own house for cash. And she sent her nieces and nephews to college.
How?
She had a little side job, she said.
She worked in a flour factory during the day. As soon as she clocked out from that job she went to the steel mills. For another eight hours she hauled steel scrap, in a wheelbarrow, from one end of the factory to the other. Back and forth. Back and forth. While most folks were at home resting before the fire.
“Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sometimes on Sundays if I could get it.”
She retired at age eighty-two (she had many jobs after the steel mill, she said, but she “always kept busy. I liked it thata way.”)
There are perhaps three important lessons with Sarah’s story as pertains to this series on how to make extra money:
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