INTRODUCTION
No person works in a paid employment forever. Life is a funny mix of tales that sometimes leads to pity or mockery as a result of series of regrets and had-I-knowns. This is the fact of life and has been from ages past.
It is so much a truth that even the Holy book emphasizes adversity after eras of boom in several of its sections. What would have become of Egypt, Israel and indeed the whole world then if Joseph was not sent to them before those 7 years of grievous famine?
This book is a call to action for everyone in paid employment because the reality is that sooner or later, you will not be in paid employment or any sort of employment whatsoever. Those years will be akin to the 7 years of grave scarcity that the earth faced in that era and what happens if preparations are not made now ahead of those times?
There couldn’t have been a better time to read this. If you are fresh in your first job and think you are not ripe for this, please think again and be guided that you need it even more, to avoid the mistakes that have been made in the past by majority of us. If you had never imagined alternative revenue streams despite approaching the twilight of that employment, don’t despair; just respond by taking well calculated action starting from your next pay check. If you get it right, you will certainly be spared the possibilities of financial miseries in the future. In the contrary, not taking any action leaves you with a total exposure to this ugly possibility after you leave your paid job.
The nature of man is to procrastinate until the evil days come and the boisterous nature of daily living today especially in the cities makes this kind of procrastination even more prevalent. The knotty thing is that these years of scarcity fall much faster upon people of this generation than those of old. The clear message this sends is that the cliché: make hay while the sun shines
has become even more relevant in the 21st
