form the manual labor the job requires. He arranges for gravel, rocks or cement blocks or whatever is being used and it is duly delivered to the job by those who deal in it. In a couple or three days a cesspool job might look like this costwise: 200 Cement Blocks @ $4.00 each $800 One Load of Gravel or Rock $150 Two laborers for total of 30 hours @ $10.00 per hour $600 Cost of administration, overhead, adver tising, on an average per job basis $200 Salary of Crackerjack, per job basis $500 Ten sections of pipe $200 Services of digging machine & dump truck to haul away surplus dirt $450 TOTAL COST OF JOB $2,900 Let's say my crackerjack bid this job in at $3900. My total cost of getting the job completed in good order was as above detailed, only $2900. I am getting $1000 for a job. I am really putting out little capital, only that required for organizational setup. Let's say I get two or three jobs like this a week. I get paid for most jobs almost immediately upon completion. If not, I will ask the customer for notes which I can promptly have discounted at my bank. I buy all my requirements either on credit or on such a basis that I really will not have to pay for it until I have collected. This is the way that most of our businessmen conduct business. Why can't you? Now there are hundreds of business opportunities open every day that really do not require any capital on your part. Look in all the classified ads of your newspapers, the classifieds of your telephone directory, better yet, the classifieds of a telephone directory of another city much larger than yours. Do these give you any ideas for starting your own business? Think! What is really required for most of these businesses except the determination to go into them? What have you to lose? Especially, if you haven't anything to start with. The main ingredients in many cases are a lot of nerve and a good imaginative approach. Here is what I mean. I have before me an issue of my local newspaper. I am looking
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