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Cheaters Always Prosper


Introduction

This book was written with the encouragement of some of
my friends who have always turned to me when they
needed advice on getting out of something, into something,
making easy money, and other such miracles. I wrote this
book for all the people out there who play by the rules and
wonder why other people get ahead. In short, rules were
made to be broken. One needs to stand back and look at the
system once in a while and see how it really works. That
is, look at the under-the-table arrangements, the payoffs,
the you-scratch-my-back-and-I'll-scratch-yours deals and
the blatant ripoffs that are part and parcel of our society.

I figured out how the world works when I was fifteen and
working at a very prestigious country club in California. I
got the job because I was being a nice guy to the new kid at
my high school. His name was Aaron, and his locker was
next to mine. Having been to ten or so schools myself by
that time, I knew the awkward and scared feelings of being
the new kid, so I introduced myself to him. We ate lunch
together and hung out that weekend. It turned out that his
father had just moved their family to my area because he
had been hired as the new tennis pro at a select
membership country club about ten minutes away from
where I lived. My parents were breathing down my neck to
get a job because I was old enough to start learning the
value of money... get a job ... blah, blah, blah, and
something about money and trees.

I was pissed and complaining to Aaron about what a drag
it was, and he suggested that I get a job as a caddie at the
country club where his father worked. Aaron had just
started working there, and I was impressed with the tips he
was making and the people he was meeting. If the names of
the people he caddied for were not in the opening credits
of every major movie I saw, they were on the front page of
the Los Angeles Times business section on a daily basis.
The job sounded a lot more appealing than Food
Preparation Technician (McDonald's employee) or
Petroleum Transfer Engineer (Chevron full-serve boy),
positions that other kids had taken. I decided to apply.

Hurdle No. 1: I had to be eighteen to work there. Solution:
Aaron told me to lie about my age. I did. It worked.

Hurdle No. 2: They wanted documentation of my age (for