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This is Alan! You know what\u2019s cooler than having a ton of money? Knowing how to make even more. And Alan knows how! You probably straight away think that he must be full of himself, so let him tell you his story. He\u2019s 17 now, but this all happened when he was 12.<\/p>\n
So, Alan\u2019s family is not very well off. They\u2019re so poor that he wore the same shoes for an entire year, no matter whether it was raining or snowing. But those were good shoes; like, very durable ones. Like, they were the Iron Man of shoes \u2013 nothing could destroy them. They were much better than his brother\u2019s, which made his feet hurt sometimes. But still, Alan\u2019s shoes were veeery ugly, and he really wanted new ones. He dreamed of getting these sneakers that he\u2019d seen once in a store.<\/p>\n
You may think that this was shallow \u2013 but remember that he was only 12 at the time. And in any case there was no way he could act on his wish to buy those shoes. He didn\u2019t have any money! So you might think that he eventually gave up on the idea\u2026but nope, not really. He started thinking that if he could just find a way of somehow making money, he could buy those shoes. And they weren\u2019t cheap\u2026<\/p>\n
His dad was always saying that he should study harder than he himself had, so that he could have a better life, and both Alan and his younger brother really took that advice to heart. He was a really diligent student and spent so much time studying.<\/p>\n
He got good grades but had no money, whereas plenty of his classmates got bad grades but had a lot of money. So Alan made them an offer \u2013 he would do their homework in exchange for money. Not a lot of money, but enough to save up and buy those sneakers after a couple of months.<\/p>\n
It was a pretty easy task for him, because basically, all he had to do was copy out his homework for them, changing it just a little so that nobody would know. He even had different prices for As, Bs, and other grades. And he also helped the older kids a little with some of their subjects \u2013 not like, math, but literature and history.<\/p>\n
Alan\u2019s scheme went great at first, but then almost everybody stopped paying. He wondered why, and it turned out that they had made one guy pay and then copied his homework. He had to find a way to fix this, so he told them that if they were going do that, he would have to raise the price. They didn\u2019t like that, but they also didn\u2019t want to do their own homework, so they agreed and everything went back to normal. But then one of the guys wasn\u2019t happy about it, and he actually revealed everything to the teacher. <\/p>\n
The teacher was very angry with Alan, and warned him that he had to stop doing it or else he and the other guys would have a lot of problems. So, he had to stop\u2026but he still hadn\u2019t saved up enough to buy the sneakers he wanted. So of course, he came up with a new plan. Because many of the older kids now knew who he was, and their teachers didn\u2019t know about his tricks, he asked them to give him cool stuff in exchange for their homework. You know \u2013 like toys, action figures, simple gadgets.<\/p>\n
He would then start playing with them in class, making it look like he was having a lot of fun. To be honest, it WAS fun. And, if someone asked him if they could play with something, he would say no, which made them want it more and more. Then at some point he would rent it to them or even sell it. Soon, he was buying stuff from the older kids and selling it for more money, instead of doing their homework. But of course, sooner or later their parents started to notice, and the teacher got angry with him again, saying that he was abusing the other children and it wasn\u2019t okay. He disagreed, because they were very happy with all of it and henever like, forced them to buy anything.<\/p>\n
Eventually, he finally had enough money to buy the sneakers he had dreamed of for so long. So Alan bought them and went home. Finally, all his hard work had paid off, and even if he had found himself in a lot of trouble, he still ended up with what he wanted. Then he saw his brother\u2019s shoes \u2013 they were in a way worse state than his, and he remembered how many times his brother had told him how much his feet hurt, and he was constantly sick because his shoes had a lot of holes in them and got wet every time he stepped in a puddle. So he gave the sneakers to his brother, and he was so happy and surprised. Honestly, it was much better to see his brother happy than to keep them for himself.His parents were angry at him at first, because they thought he had stolen them, but he then explained how he got them. And then they were proud of him because they thought he had done it all for his brother. He didn\u2019t tell them that it had originally all been for himself, though.<\/p>\n
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