MULTIPLE SOURCES OF INCOME. YOU HAVE TO GET GANGSTER!
Yes, you read that correctly. You have to get gangster! No, I’m not talking about the narcotics dealing “man
child” wearing saggy pants and a crooked hat. Actually, dealing narcotics was a no-no among the real gangsters
and they would whack you for it. Drug dealing brought too much heat from the cops. I’m talking about the person
in the five thousand dollar sharkskin suit with multiple streams of income.
After watching The Godfather 2, I became intrigued about how an immigrant standing on Ellis Island with nothing
but a suitcase ended up with a multi-million dollar empire. So, I decided to investigate. I devoured hundreds of
books about real life Godfathers and gangsters. The common thread in everything that I read was that they became
rich and powerful by establishing multiple streams of income. Things like alcohol bootlegging,
gambling parlors, brothels, the garment industry, cement companies, loan sharking, construction businesses,
racketeering, and much more. Men AND women gangsters! The women could be just as scary and deadly. And most of
those men and women never even made it past the eighth grade!
Now, I’m not condoning any of these dealings, so don’t worry about having to put Rocco in cement shoes due to
non payment. Pursuing a career in businesses like that is risky and could land you in prison for a very long
time.
What I am emphasizing here is the multiple streams of income. The hustle! That’s the thing that these
gangsters had, hustle. They didn’t whine about “the man” holding them down. They didn’t lay around playing
games or watching other people’s dreams come true on television. They went out into the world and threw
down! So, that’s what you have to do if you want to build wealth. Get out there and work
it! Everybody wants to be gangster until it’s time to do some gangster s#!t!
I’m always prowling around like a lion looking for opportunities to start another drip, another income
stream. Back when I was working in student housing as a maintenance technician, rich kids would
just move out of their apartment and leave all their stuff! I would go in and gather up everything: TVs,
PlayStations, bicycles, furniture…and I would store it all in my tiny apartment. This was before you could
sell stuff easily on the internet so I had to put ads in the newspaper to sell the stuff. I made thousands
of dollars. My co-workers thought that I was dealing drugs because my phone never stopped ringing. They
would see me off in a corner on my lunch break with my trunk open and the buyers trunk
open.
So, I had my day job maintenance tech income, my guitar playing/live music income, my selling stuff income, my
money market account interest, and mutual fund investment income. That’s 5 things bringing in cash. That’s how I
was able to go from $0 in 2006 to $30,000 in 2010. I also cut my expenses down to the bare bones. I only spent
money on needs, not wants. I didn’t buy new clothes for years. The only clothes that I needed were work clothes.
After I made $500 during a weekend of selling PlayStations and mini fridges, I didn’t run out and buy a gold
watch. I put it right into my money market account. That’s the key. You have to sacrifice a few years for
decades of freedom.
After you read this, head over to the How To Save Money
link on this website to see what you can do right now to start building
your empire.
Okay! I hope you’re fired up and ready to get gangster! Below are some ideas on what you can do for multiple
streams of income.
- Blow leaves off of peoples roofs. (Be safe about it though!)
$40 a roof. 40 x 5 roofs, that’s $200! I’d
spend $40.00 to not have a leak due to excessive leaves on my
roof. - Deliver pizzas.
- Drive for UBER. You can set your own hours with UBER. Work whenever is good for
you. - If you have a 24 hour emergency on call service at your day job, take someone else’s week too. I
made piles of cash taking on call for my co-workers. While they were out partying, I was stacking
money. - Start a YouTube channel and monetize it. Do you have a special talent that you can teach? Film
yourself doing it and put it on YouTube! YouTube places ads on your videos and that’s how you get paid.
My YouTube show The Dirty Maintenance
Show is a great side hustle. - If you work or live in a pet friendly apartment complex, advertise that you can walk their
dog or feed their pets while they’re out. - Pick up all the pennies, nickles, dimes, and quarters that all of the broke people are too proud
to pick up. My change bucket nets me an extra $250 a year! That’s $250 for just bending over and picking
it up. If you’re a maintenance tech and there’s a public car vacuum on your property, look inside the
waste bag before you empty it. I find $2.00 to $3.00 in there every week. - Do side jobs. Do you know how to fix things? Put on Facebook that you do side jobs and if anyone
needs something fixed, they can call you. - Sell stuff. Either around your house or if you’re a maintenance tech, sell stuff that people leave
around the property that you work at. I recently made $165 off a bed set someone left behind. With the
internet now days, selling is so easy. - Go to the Dollar Store and buy stuff for $1.00 and then sell it on eBay or Amazon for $3.00 to
$5.00.
Alright, that list of side hustles is just to get your juices flowing. I’m sure that if you grabbed a sheet of
paper and thought about it, you could come up with many more.
Oh boy…I can already hear some of you. “Oh my gosh he’s recommending that people become murdering mobsters!”
No, no, no, and hell no. I’m only recommending that you should adopt a little gangster
hustle into your life and go after multiple streams of income. No more whining about being broke in America.
Instead of whining, you find what people want or need and start a side hustle by fulfilling that want or need.
Like the Irish, Jewish, and Italian immigrants that came here with nothing and built million dollar empires did.
Although the wants that the old gangsters fulfilled for people tended to people’s dark side, it was still a want
and they fulfilled it. Regular working people wanted to drink, gamble, borrow money, and “look” at beautiful
women. So, they started businesses and side hustles that gave people what they wanted. If no one was buying,
there would’ve been no business.
You can do this! Especially with the internet now days, a side hustle is not hard to find. Don’t just get one
going. Get as many as you’re able to do! “Yea but Lex, I have a wife and kids so I can’t find the time.” Oh
really? Me too! And I made $15,000 of side hustle money last year. I put some of that $15,000 right into my
money market account and some into my mutual fund. Once you turn off the idiot box (a.k.a. television) and start
focusing on you, I promise things will change. I put my kids to bed and do my side hustle
between 9:00pm and 12:00pm. Then I wake up at 5:30am and continue until 6:15am.
Now get out there and hustle! And remember, everybody wants to be gangster until it’s time to do some gangster
s#!t. Walk away from the 90 percent.
My All Time Favorite Gangster Books:
One of the best books about a rogue gangster
named Jon Roberts who made his way to Miami after running into some trouble in New York. His uncle was Carlo
Gambino’s consigliere. Fantastic and action packed book! Click on the book or this Amazon link to take you
there.
The Ice Man is one of the scariest dudes you’ll ever read about. The Ice Man Confessions of A Mafia Contract Killer book
link.
Hear what a real godfather talks about inside his
house. Paul Castellano was one of the last of the old school gangsters hanging on to his empire before drug
dealing brought the mob down.The Boss of Bosses
book link.
My favorite book of all time. Vito Corleone was a quiet, brilliant family man that had to do what
he had to do for his family. Before drugs ruined everything that he stood for. The Godfather book
link.
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