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By Gwen Parkes, Posted Nov 2nd 2010 @ 8:13AM

We all have friends like Mike Humes: that ambitious guy who bucks the system a little and is never content to just be. He marches to the beat of a different drummer, not because he is defiant in any way, but because he is hungry and never wants to settle for something average — he is an entrepreneur in every sense of the word.

Well, different is not always bad, and when it comes to the constantly changing face of the economy, different can be lucrative. Just ask Mike Humes, a mailman that became a millionaire selling legal services for Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. because he chose to break the job mold.

Mike had a secure, stable job with the U.S Postal Service as a mailman and was able to purchase his first house by the age of 21. He could also predict his salary (raises and all) for the rest of his life — and that is exactly why Humes choose to buck the system and think outside the box. Continue reading →