Making Money

I'm running out of money-making ideas. It's not that I am changing or going senile, it's just that I have been overtaken by technology. Things are moving so quickly that whatever new money-making scheme I dream up is either already being marketed aggressively or is in some start-up being financed by millions of dollars while I am still to set-up a shoe-string budget based on single dollars and cents. Is it possible that the days of the good old-fashioned entrepreneur who starts out on the workbench in his garage are over?

I still have some great ideas which I think are viable and feasible and would like to implement, but everything nowadays is highly competitive and involves the dreaded subject of IP, intellectual property. This means lawyers, engineers, patent offices and protection against every imaginable type of human blood-sucking species. It's gotten so that you just have to think up a good idea and the neighbors seem to pick up the positive vibes coming from your property. 

A dynamic young nephew came to visit from America. After 2 days in the local heat he said, ?This is such a hot climate. No one has tinted windows in their cars. This has to be a winner of a business.? I started looking at it, writing a business plan, checking out the marketing and sales possibilities. Next thing I see are stickers on the telephone poles all over town advertising tinted glass for car windows. Mental telepathy or what? 

That good old fall-back money-making system, the stock exchange? Yeah right! Are you watching what's going on? Better to invest in a bit of online gambling or betting on the horses ? at least some of them will run the race and finish. Lotto and soccer pools are trite and the odds too long. It's starting to look as though I am going to have to work! I hope there's a special parking place for my wheelchair!