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Marketplace Gidion's (c) 2004 James J. Dierickx (A.I.T.)
Apostle In Training
THE
CALL:
If most of you are anything like me, you have
felt a call to achieve in the marketplace as business or
entrepreneurial leader. For myself since I was a young pre-teen I
knew beyond a shadow of the doubt , that I was called to be involved
in several unique business opportunities. I did not know how but I
knew that I was chosen to be wealthy someday, I have a gift that few
people have and that is on top of loving business, the lord gave me
a hyper-creative mind that loves to invent new products, and new
ways of making , marketing, and financing new adventures.
My parents had gotten divorced when I was nine
years old and I helped support our family during some very lean
times before my mother got re-married. This is when I started my
first business adventure. It was a simple snow removal business ,
where I had gone out and gotten the businesses up and down
mainstreet to use my snow removal services. I had I believe around
15-20 or so business customers that I shoveled their walks before
school. I remember sometimes not showing up at school until
9:30-10:00 and being tardy for school, and having to stay after
school for being late. This was a hassle but I knew when 4:15PM came
around I would go out and collect a check from each merchant and
$100.00 or more dollars for all my hard work. Then I would go out
and shovel some residential work to make even more money until it
was too dark to work. This was an awful lot of money for a nine year
old boy in 1979 . I went to a catholic grade school and I remember
the nuns would say that school should come first , I would always
reply well I am not making money here.
The lord allowed me to learn so many things
about basic business at a young age. Such as placing a high my value
on doing a good job for my customers and the Lord was showing me
that work and doing good with the money I earned was very important.
I used my money that I earned to feed my family and helped my mother
pay some of our monthly bills, since allot of the time we did not
receive any support from my father. I remember that winter I signed
my first business installment contract when I bought a snowblower
from the local Gambles Store, my mother had to co-sign since I was
minor, and this snowblower was the first piece of business equipment
purchased with credit and paid for by hard work. If I remember right
I made around $3,500.00 that season in Iowa. The lord blessed me
with a rather unusually severe winter that 1979 season.
I knew that I was the happiest when I
had new product idea to think about and design. I had always been an
inventor as far back as I can remember, I never remember not having
this gift, some people would say that I was always taking the easy
way out and that I was lazy. I would say that is true because I
always wanted to make my life easier , and other people thought that
through hard work alone that they were doing a better job. In
elementary through high school I was for sure an anomaly and did not
fit into the mold that they wanted me to fit into.
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