Out of the Crutches of Poverty: Climbing up the Ladder to Success

By Peter Jones

Here is Peter Jones personal formula for becoming a success in the work force. Positive mental focus and setting goals are essential to his formula. A book that will help you to strive even a bad economy. Many of the strategies are used by the worlds most successful men and women.

Peter has a simple message for anyone who wants to get out of a rut, get off your assets and put them to work. Your mind is a terrible thing to waste, life is too short to live a life of mediocrity. If a young boy from a poverty stricken life can make dramatic changes in his life, anyone with a desire to better themselves can do it. It takes hard work and persistence but the results will be dramatic if you follow his formula he has laid out in this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514403471

Peter Jones

Peter Jones spent several years working as a consultant in credit card banking, fixing various issues in high-profile organisations. Peter’s outlook on life changed dramatically when Kate, his wife of 2 years and 3 months, passed away due to a brain haemorrhage. He left his job in finance to follow his passions. Peter lives just a few miles outside London. He doesn't own a large departmental store and probably isn't the same guy you've seen on Dragons' Den.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Summary

Biography

Chapter 1 GP Austin Elementary/High School

Chapter 2 Growing Up

Chapter 3 Robison Bells Pool Hall

Chapter 4 Timber Lake, Job Corps Center, Estacada, Oregon

Chapter 5 Hollywood, California

Chapter 6 My Formula, Education & Work History

Chapter 7 Steps 1 thru 15

Chapter 8 Fresno Pacific University

Chapter 9 Examples of Successful People

References

Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to all those folks that want to better themselves and their lives through hard work.

First of all, I want to thank my parents, the late Mr. Wallace and Mrs. Alice Jones, my sisters Susie Smith, Nellie Walker, and Callie Jones, my brother, Samuel Jones, and our dear friends, the late Mr. Willie and Mrs. Emma Johnson and family for their good example of hard work and unwavering balanced life. Also my cousins, Sadie B. Wright, Rebecca, and Ludie Daisy, James Moody, a real estate investor, Nick, Helen, Cruse, and the Moody family for helping me along the way, and Betty, Willa, and Flora for their unwavering example.

A special thanks to my wife, Yvonne, my son, Peter Jr., his wife, Keisha, my sons Donald, Gerard, Karen and John for believing in me. Thanks to my niece, Amina Madrid, who was willing to accept the assignment of senior editor without pay because I am family. The late Mrs. Ruth Brown and other teachers that helped me to see the need to always pursue my educational goals. Mr. John Little, Charles Jones, Essie Lee, Gwen Lankster, Richard McIntosh, Glenda Brown, and all the class of 1970 who insisted that I be a part of that class. They did not forget about me. And thanks to Job Corps, Webster Career College, Glendale Community College, The University of California, Los Angeles, and Fresno Pacific University for my education and training.

Summary

First Steps Out of the Crutches of Poverty is about how a young man from a small town came to one of the world’s largest cities, knowing only two people; one of whom he met in the Job Corps. Starting from scratch or nothing, he made a success story, by following a few things he learned as a young man, working on a milk dairy farm in a small town to becoming a Job Corps graduate. Then he became a junior college graduate and took steps to become a licensed career technical educator and a licensed real estate professional and teacher in the State of California. He will tell you how he survived along the way. He will explain every stop he made along the way and how he used certain standards to sustain himself along the way. He will also help you to move forward, whatever stage of life you are in at this time.

And along that journey, he made several interesting stops such as traveling throughout the United States as an employee of Amtrak; he worked in the movie industry as an extra, was an extra in five different movies. One movie, The Competition, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving, was nominated for a Grammy.

Also while supervising a cleaning crew at El Rodeo Elementary School, the school received a certificate of recognition from the California State Senate in 1997 for being a distinguished elementary school in Beverly Hills Unified School District.

Next, Mr. Jones attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and after completing the course, obtained his California Ryan designated subjects vocational teaching credential levels 1 and 2. Then he completed level 3 at Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, California.

Thereafter he became a teacher and vice principal for the state of California. Mr. Jones also attended the University of West Los Angeles—School of Law’s summer mini law program and completed with a certificate of completion in six areas in the field of law.

• 1.The Judicial Process

• 2. Criminal Law

• 3. Criminal Procedure

• 4. Torts

• 5. Contracts

• 6. Real Property

Mr. Jones is a holder of California real estate broker license and has been in the field for over twenty-five years. He is also a licensed real estate broker in the state of Georgia; he is also the holder of California real estate license to teach real estate in public schools and colleges from the State of California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. He is considered an expert on the subject of real estate in California.

He currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is working as a real estate consultant. He is still available to assist you with any of your real estate and training needs. He can be reached by appointment only. Or you can e-mail.

Biography

Demopolis: I was born in Demopolis, Alabama, the largest city in Marengo County on March 15, 1952. The town is situated between Montgomery, Alabama, and Jackson, Mississippi. The town is located at the confluence of the Tombigbee and Black Warrior rivers, used as a water highway by native people, early explorers, traders, and settlers. It is lodged within the geographic triangle of Tuscaloosa to the north, Mobile to the south, and Montgomery to the east. Demopolis sits at the dead center, which came to be known as the Black Belt of southern agriculture. As much for the darkness of the soil and as for the color of the people who took care of it.

My parents were hardworking, church-going people. They tried to instill those same values in us—to have a close personal relationship with the Almighty God because he has a plan for the human race and that he loves us. My dad worked at a dairy alongside Mr. Willie Johnson, a close friend of the family. The two of them were like two peas in a pod Mr. Johnson was an ex-military man and a very disciplined hard worker that took interest in the Jones boys. At that time, it was only three of us