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Originally Posted by Robbie
Yeah I would. And if you think my confidence in my abilities to outwork anybody else are "delusions" then so be it. You don't know me. I'm just a guy on a message board. Believe what you will.
But you CAN believe this. There are people out there who do exactly what I said...they are driven to succeed. And then there are the 99.99% of the people who are NOT driven to succeed.
My "delusions" have made me rich over the years as I walked into situations and went from nothing. Learning every piece of the puzzle from the ground up.
McDonalds? Give me a fucking break. I know you don't know me...but at least you know yourself right? Do you seriously think you wouldn't be able to walk into any McDonalds and within the first week become the most valuable employee they have? And then rise up fast? And within a very short amount of time be managing? And then move on to owning your own franchise?
If you don't believe that...then you must not be very confident in yourself.
And by the way...I've never worked for anyone else because I sacrificed and didn't have the luxury of a guaranteed paycheck. I'm glad you find that amusing.
I find that to be an admirable quality in people. You must see things a lot differently than I do, which would explain a lot of things.
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What always amazes me is when people don't like the position they are in at a company or they don't like how much they make yet they do nothing about it. Like you say, most people will simply just not put out the effort.
One tech company I worked for published a newsletter every Friday that listed all of the job openings within the company. I was looking at that thing from day one while many people who bitched about wanting more money never looked at it to see what they might be qualified for. Within a month of starting to work there and knowing nothing about the job I was promoted to be a trainer and was training new people. Four months later I was made technician and helped troubleshoot problems with the machines and software we used. After a year of being there I applied for a job in the prototype lab and got it. There were people who had been in my department 5 years and were still doing the entry level job and were pissed that I moved up and out within a year.
One of them pulled me aside after I started in the new department and asked me how I did it and told him: learn everything and then ask for promotion. Tell them you want more responsibility. They can't read minds. If they see you do good work and you make it clear that you want to move ahead they will think of you when those openings happen. It was almost like I had given him some kind of secret code. To me it was simple logic, but he thought if he just sat there and worked away one day they would magically come along and move him on up the ladder. Those that ask for he sale get the sale.