Volunteer yourself

If you want to be successful in your life/career, learn to start volunteering or doing things for free. Its often ironic how people will be willing to spend thousands of dollars on an education at university but when it comes to getting educated for free they won't do it.

Everytime you volunteer for a position - for instance setting up a charity or running a student or employee committee you will gain invaluable experience or contacts. Some of my best learnings about leadership and life has been through volunteering for these little clubs that people inevitably don't volunteer for. You get to be in a small organisation making decisions on behalf of everyone and you will usually end up working with the most passionate people in the organisation. These are the ones that 'care' enough to volunteer their time. The payback from these sorts of activities comes well into the future - you will make contacts and grow other parts of your wealth.

If you would like to get into marketing volunteer to work for someone for free. Learn and build up your resume. If you do a good enough job they will either start paying you or at least provide you a testimonial to take to the next customer. Once you have done enough 'freebies' you will eventually start making decent money. Remember that society usually expects you to pay for an education and then you start making money. Getting an education from giving away your time is cheaper than having to pay for this education. You will meet better people, learn more and have more fun than watching TV and doing nothing with your time.