The thing about it, and it's kinda a catch 22, if i KNOW i am a great fit for your company and youa re so silly to "throw away my resume without looking at it" if i don't have a college education, than that's not a company i want to work for in the firstp lace.
squirrels i assure you this is not how real business men think. businessmen get ahead by relining on talented people, and the competition is to find the most talented people you can find. a business or business meant hat is that stupid, has killed himself already.'
the thing is, most people are not real assets to their company. college educated or not.
as i had stated before and everyone here knows i have owned two businesses. doesn't take a college education to do that. something that i don't think have ever shared with anyone here and just goes to prove my point, is about a few months after i sold my first business,while taking a heitis from the business world, i got approached by a recruiter via email for this financial company. while i wasn't looking for a job, at all, the person basically talked me into going to a group interview. i said **** it. why not. i liked bolier room, i might get some entertainment out of it.
well this was a little unformed company that was being backed by American express called ameriprise (at the time, ameriprise did not exist yet). I'm looking around, i'm easily the yongest person in the room, mind you at the time i was just 21 years old. 21.
let that sink in. 21 years old. lol, AND i'm black (and was the only black guy there) i was barley old enough to drink and here i am at a group interview to be a financial planner.
the recruiter told me that they did prefer people with college educations she told met hat i had already shown that i obviously had talent by my resume an d that she felt i could be an asset to their company
so they gave everyone this comptency financial test, i passed with flying colors.
so then they had me do this individual interivew with the guy that was running the division like a week later. i gotta admit, i was pretty sure i wasn't going to take the job even if offered, i just wanted to see if i could get it. i was intrigued by all this. I was doing this for kicks. had an hour long conversation with the guy, was very candid with him he was very candid with me, told me what he would expct from me and i told him frankely my situtation, that i came in not expecting to take the job, i don' need the money, he woudl have to blow me away to make me get out of my break to come work for him.. i had spent almost 3 years with my old company, 15 hour days, 6 days a week sometimes 7, i needed a break.
i left the room with a job offer, making 2k less a year than what i was paying myself to start out (without the perks, for instance my old company paid my rent, my ulititles, even my dry cleaning. the only thing i had to pay for was food, and that was only if i wasn't at work. i cleared 1300 a week a and of that i probably spent 200 a week) and had i stayed with the company from then into now i would be well, well, well into 6 figures. well into. I didn't take the job, 1. numbers is not something that just gets my juices going. I have to love my job that's how i justify working as hard as i do. that is not something I love and 2. if i were to take a job, a regular one, it would have had to be onet hat i can get off work at 5. i had told myself that more than anything i needed to start to have a resemblance of a social life, even though at the time iw as doign great financially, i had no life. at some point you have to try to balance things out. the guy was telling me that they expected me to work my ass off, and i had shown i had no problem doing that, and i didn't, his long hours (7-8pm sometimes) were laughable to me there would be days i would work to that, go get something to eat and come back and put in 5 more hours of work, but at the time, that is just not what i was looking for.
no college education.
smart companies recognize talent when they see it. Talented people, driven people never have a problem getting work. If you have a problem getting work it's generally, because you 1. aren't that talented or 2. aren't that driven.
I can walk into any car dealership and even if you gave me a sales job within a half year i would bet you my salary that i would be be in F and I somewhere if not there a sister store. you cannot hold a talented driven person down.
I have a gift that can never be thought in any college in america or the world for that matter. I have a vivid imagination and the ability to successfully bring my dreams to a reality in a logical manner. I have the ability to want something, then set down a definitive plan of action to make that something become a reality. rather it be a computer business, a web business, being able to play the piano, to own horses, to be able to make at least a decent living handicapping, or to be able to take my shirt off at the pool and have women do double takes.
I always had an imagination which is what drew my first business partner to me, and i always had a hunger to learn, but what i lacked, and what he brought, was discipline. he made me a very discipline person and as the quote goes, Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. We learned how to take large goals and break them down into tiny, micro achievable goals.
I am going to take a break and I am going to start on my third and what will be my biggest entrepreneurial venture of all, and there is no doubt in my mind, it will be successful, because i have a definitive plan, that is even in the works as we speak, to make it a success.
