Do Low Level Jobs Or Retail Jobs Make You Beta
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Jackreacher
Woodpecker
Perception is everything. Work a low level job long enough and you will become low level, most others will perceive you that way also. You have to do things that mimic the best view of yourself. When you work those jobs do you feel free? Are you taking advantage of life? Is your life enviable? The smartest people around do not work, they have hobbies, passions, that's all they do. Many of them are also wealthy and if not then at least they're quite comfortable. I'd prefer someone lie to me then tell they've been working at McDonald's for 2+ years. Smart people learn really quickly what 7 dollars an hour flipping burgers feels like. And the ones that don't leave, well...
I'm in my 30's and worked a series of shit jobs when I was much younger and here is what I learned..
Don't fuck around even at a shit job and don't take a quitter's mentality. Even if it's flipping burgers be the best burger flipper you can.
The reason why I say that is because being a slacker or quitter sort of gets engrained into your personality and becomes habitual. Even when you eventually get to that place you want to be there's a lot of people who have zero work ethic or personal responsibility. Don't be that person.
Before I started my own business I was managing a business for years. There are a shitload of millenials and Gen X'ers who have zero work ethic or personal responsibilty these days. I did not hesitate at all when it came to showing people like this the door. The people with work ethic and responsibility were also visibly more successful in other areas of their life as well.
Don't fuck around even at a shit job and don't take a quitter's mentality. Even if it's flipping burgers be the best burger flipper you can.
The reason why I say that is because being a slacker or quitter sort of gets engrained into your personality and becomes habitual. Even when you eventually get to that place you want to be there's a lot of people who have zero work ethic or personal responsibility. Don't be that person.
Before I started my own business I was managing a business for years. There are a shitload of millenials and Gen X'ers who have zero work ethic or personal responsibilty these days. I did not hesitate at all when it came to showing people like this the door. The people with work ethic and responsibility were also visibly more successful in other areas of their life as well.
Grit
Kingfisher
We have a socially agreed upon 8 hour work day. Yet employers will not be satisfied with coming in and kicking ass for 8 hours. Instead, its a weaseling extraction of pedantry and conformity, making sure you are 'diverse' 'equal' and 'team player.'
I have yet to find a modern company that promises such a quid pro quo: "Come in, kick ass, and we will make you wealthy." Instead, they reject having the onus to provide you with wealth. You get some airhead managerial newspeak about "we are not here to make you wealthy, that's dependent on your own drive and hustle wink wink"
The measure of an ultimate society is one of men motivated to make each other wealthy, instead of self-enrichment at the cost of all others.
I have yet to find a modern company that promises such a quid pro quo: "Come in, kick ass, and we will make you wealthy." Instead, they reject having the onus to provide you with wealth. You get some airhead managerial newspeak about "we are not here to make you wealthy, that's dependent on your own drive and hustle wink wink"
The measure of an ultimate society is one of men motivated to make each other wealthy, instead of self-enrichment at the cost of all others.
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