Hand Me That Take This

By: Dode Sescri

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

I once asked a college professor, ''how come you don’t own a single company or small business when you have been the professor of Business and economics for so many years?'' I just got a blank stare in return and knew it was better not to ask any more questions. The reality of life is that people who teach business are not in the actual business while the people who create fortune 500 companies have never set foot in a business class or college. What a strange world we live in that the people who know so much about something don’t have an ounce of that thing in their possession. If the business teachers had applied all the knowledge they had into practice they would definitely be the richest people in the whole world.
It's sad to see that very educated professors of business and economics are struggling with their finances, just like everyone else. I don’t mean to judge, this is just another thing that has come to my attention. the people who are known experts in metallurgy especially precious metals are in the same rabbit hole. Experts in precious metals e.g. gold and silver don’t have a single bullion of gold in their homes.

With the way things are going on in our society, there could be a great disparity between what is being taught in class and what is actually happening on the ground. You may graduate from college with a business degree thinking you know everything about starting and running a business only to be shocked when you start an actual one. The realization that things aren't the way they are always taught will hit you so hard that it will take you a while to recover and regain your footing.

Running a successful business is all about landing on the job, you get to start a business as a novice and learn your way through its growth, only those that hang in there long enough acquire the skills to maneuver the enterprise smoothly, you can always add the knowledge you need later on once you get the hang of it. Going through academics first may not be appropriate because you may waste too much time learning things you might never need.

There is some form of barter trade that goes on behind our backs on a daily basis without us knowing it and is still effective as it was many centuries ago. All modern-day transactions and commerce systems have some features of barter trade deeply engraved into them, only those who know what they are doing get the best share of the market, while those who hope to be lucky and strike it rich fast end up picking bread crumbs and leftovers from other people's ventures. would you give away a bag of cereals for a spoonful of salt? Son of merchandise look carefully and learn from it. however awkward and old-fashioned it may have seemed to us, our ancestors' primitive trade might have been advanced and complex as our modern-day commerce.