就业困难 自主创业卖热狗

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当事业看上去走投无路的时候，今天文章的主人公选择了卖热狗为生。 每周只工作五天，照样可以轻松赚取生活费，不再为衣食住行所困扰。

360行，行行出状元。看似不起眼的卖热狗，却也可以成就一个人。

After Adrian Mocerian's real estate business went bust and his friend Mark Jordan got laid off, they travelled all the way from Tennessee to Chicago to an empty parking lot, outside of this Vienna Beef factory, to learn how to sell hot dogs.

go bust 破产

"Just like my thumb, so I'm not pressing the top."

Enrollment has doubled, tuition for winner work 101 will run you 400 dollars. but year-round vender has the potential to be pretty lucrative. Business is up 25%.Whenever the economy has turned south to the recession or whatever, there's always been an increasing mobile vending hot dog carts.

Jack Belle works in one of the largest vendor cart companies in the country. Business is heating up, especially now. between Memorial day and Labor day, just a three-month span, Americans eat about 7 billion hot dogs.

Food like hot dogs I would consider as comfort food. And I would expect that's one of the reasons it's popular also in the terms of down economy people can eat more comfort foods. He calls  this the most basic form of capitalism, and it has its advantages, you can be your own boss, set your own hours, and it's an all cash busniess with very little overhead.

The average hot dog costs 25 cents. most vendors sell a hot dog for a dollar fifty. If you sold 100 hot dogs a day , working five days a week, you'd clear 32,500 dollars a year. Two hundred and fifty hot dogs a day, more than 80,000 dollars a year. Sounds like a gig some could really relish.