O
OrangeCrest
Guest
Mike Gwas said:
Heya Mike...
Just came across your post and to me, my little niche isn't that hard of work; in fact, I am quite lucky that I don't have to work my rear off like others trying to sell sell sell just to stay a float.
The work comes to me and since I built my rep up with quality and reliability, I am really comfy in my little section of our industry.
Not sure what you do, but if you say it is hard work, I believe you, I was writing from my end of the spectrum...
I too have been working since I was eight, not because anyone had me do it, but because I always had that drive. I would cut the neighbor's grass (which was a U.S. Marine) so that he would loan me his lawn mower so I could go around the neighborhood and cut lawns for $2/yard (back/front).
I use to call the want ads looking for work and the people would get ticked thinking I was some little kid playing on the phone.
I was arrested with some friends when I was 9-years old because I saw a lawn mower sitting in a lot and took it to go cut lawns to make some side cash.
I became a paperboy after my parents having to convince the circulation manager that I wasn't to tiny to carry papers at 11, which they gave me a route of 52-papers, which I took on a second route that turned into 350-papers and had to be split 4-ways when I moved on 3-years later.
I was always out soliciting for new customers and won numerous awards and donated numerous thanksgiving dinners to families because that happened to be what they were giving away at the time....
While others went to lunch, I spent my time working in the school cafeteria serving the lunches from the 7th to 10th grades, you remember those guys that handed you your lunch at school and collected the money…
And it went on and on to bigger and better things... So I thought... until I realized what a waste it all was because I was never personally satisfied when I really wanted to be a scientist/physicist and could have my PhD by now if I wasn't so driven by the pennies that I earned compared to the personal satisfaction of achieving the status that I really dreamed of that out weighs any amount of money I could ever earn in this or any other industry.
When they say, "Money won't buy you happiness," that applies to me...
So like I said, if you say it is hard work, I believe you, I was writing from my end of the spectrum...
Glad everything is working out for you...
