How is a Job Created?

Many aspiring entrepreneurs dream of making it big. But how do you get started? The first thing you need an idea. It must be something that offers some sort of value to another person, so valueable that they'd would be willing to pay us money for it. Next, we need a vision on how we will put that idea into production. Basically, we need to see the end before we begin. Let’s use Henry Ford as an example. You know him right? His mission was to make the automobile affordable to every Americans. The idea is the automobile. The vision is a lot full of cars for every Americans to choose from. So how did he do this?

•First he needed a place to build the cars

•Then he needed the steel to make the cars

•Then he need an engine to make the car run

•Then he needed fuel to make the engine work

•Then he needed parts to make the car complete; (tires, seats, windows, etc.)

•Then he needed workers to put the car together

•Then he needed accountants to keep the records

•Then he needed finance people to project the cost of future expansion

•Then he needed legal people to make sure he was following the law

•Then he needed someone to sell the cars

•Finally, he needed someone to fix the cars when they broke down and maintain them so they didn’t

All of these activities between the idea and the vision are jobs. Most of us will fall into the in-between categories, so we need to make sure we have the necessary skills. If you have those skills, you will be in-demand and can pick any “job” you want. But at some point in our lives we may ask ourselves, no matter how much we like our “job”, is this what we want to do with the rest of our lives? We all have ideas. But make no mistake about it: the idea and vision comes first, not the workers. Anyone who says otherwise is either dishonest or has no clue how a job is created.

So, what is your big idea?