Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Boss?
Do you break out into a cold sweat every time your boss calls you into the office? With current unemployment rates at a 25 year high of 8.5% and the U.S. Department of Labor saying that a total of 5.1 million jobs have been lost since the recession started in December 2007, people are nervous for a good reason.
Over 5 million people have been the unwilling victims of reduction in force, restructuring, cost cutting, or whatever water down phrase that is used. They all mean the same thing- you are out of work.
Let’s say you are one of the lucky ones that have held on to their jobs. You still have to go to work every day with the fear in the back of your mind that it may be the last. Unfortunately with you and all of your co-workers forced into this survival mode it can, and often does bring out the worst in people. A pleasant place to work with progressive products and people can quickly turn into a hostile environment where everyone is out for themselves and success for some only means the failure of others.
A lot of people in these types of conditions dream of being masters of their own destiny. They imagine owning a business where they call the shots. Where their job security depends on their own hard work and initiative not by the “suits” behind closed doors. Unfortunately when times get tough most people just dig in and work harder. If they are a great worker they keep their job. But all they accomplished was to help someone else’s business get through a rough spot. When they could have put their experience and their effort in to building their own business and reaping the rewards themselves.
A lot of people operate under the misconception that it takes a lot of money and time to start a business. And, that going out on your own is too risky in uncertain times. What if there was an opportunity that helped everyday people achieve their dream of owning a business, and controlling their employment fate. What if the opportunity was affordable for almost anyone and could even be started in your spare time so that you could keep you full time job while still building your business.
The answer: vending. Take a look around you. Vending has an established presence in every city in the country. You may have thought well how much money can those machines really make? It’s only a few coins at a time right? Most people do not know that the change put into vending machines adds up to over 46 billion dollars in the US every year. If you are thinking of becoming the master of your own destiny it would usually suit most people to align their fate with a piece of a 40 billion dollar pie.
U-Turn Vending has been in helping entrepreneurs break free from the fear of being another number on the unemployment statistic for nearly 25 years. That means we’ve been around long enough that we've lived through the last recession too. And guess what? We are still here. Still providing people with a realistic way to achieve the freedom they deserve.