Suppose someone has to take a shtty first job because they've been looking for several months, still haven't found anything, and are running out of funds to pay bills. How are they suppose to overcome this and succeed, despite a shtty first job? (What do I mean by a sh*tty first job? Something like a random marketing, finance/accounting, or sales job at a random small company.)
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take shitty job and continue the hunt
It's also easier to get a job once you have one, in my experience. You can also just leave it off the resume......
Works for me every time
Take the job, spend your first few months working hard and learning, build up some goodwill within the firm and with your boss. Even if you hate the job and find it tedious and uninteresting, put your head down and work hard.This will give you a safety net once you've put in 4-6 months and decide to actively pursue a new position. If you go in with a negative attitude, you'll doom yourself from the start and might get fired/quit after 3-4 months.
Once you put in around 6 months, start reaching out to people and tell them you had to take a job to pay the bills but your long term goals are different. Reasonable people will understand and give you an opportunity if you're smart.
^^^Agree with the above. Where you start does not define where you end, despite what some people here would have you believe.
There are people who start out working at a McDonald's sweeping the floors, and 30 years later they're a franchise owner of several McDonald's making a few hundred K a year (not bad for someone with just a high school education). Don't underestimate the ability to move ahead in ANYTHING if you put in the work and learn the business.
You could do self reflections, where you don't justify your actions, every week. If you pound at your face you will be successful. If you pet yourself on the back during the first few weeks you are doing something wrong. Attitude is big in your case.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=losq4T3yONs
No homo?
The richest person I know dropped out of school when he was 14. He has started, bought, and sold successful businesses in the fields of construction, real estate, insurance. He even bought a restaurant as a hobby, and quadrupled his initial investment. He is also a prolific equities trader. Everything he touches turns to gold. I would estimate his net worth at over $10 million.
Just out of curiosity, did he reach success at a young age? Or did he struggle for awhile first?
Well, when he was 14 he had to drop out of school and work full time, to help his family pay the bills. He came from a dirt poor family. He spent a good 10 years working full time at different blue collar jobs, making enough to get by. His first business was a construction business, and he was CRAZY about it. He was the kind of guy that would work 100 hours a week, which is much more impressive than working 100 hours per week in a comfy office like many high finance people. Eventually he built the company up to a big enough business to not have to do any manual labor, and he spent 75% of his time at work in his office researching stocks, which also paid off very well. I was too young to be involved in the stock market at this time, but I really wish I followed this guy. He invested his entire portfolio, using a lot of leverage in XM Satellite Radio at 3.00 and sold at 40.00, which is about exactly when the company started its nose dive. After that he surprised me, because he is a high risk/high reward kind of guy and he said "The entire stock market is fucked. I'm putting most of my money in bonds." This was about right before the market fell apart, so it appears he made the right move. Surprisingly, when it comes to stocks he doesn't really know much about financial analysis, he is just unbelievably talented at spotting trends in products. Since the financial collapse, he has been acquiring small businesses in the local area, in a variety of different sectors. I'm pretty sure he now let's professionals now take care of his portfolio, while he devotes most of his time to managing his private businesses.
I probably shouldn't have called him an equities trader, since he didn't really make a lot of moves. He was just never wrong, and not afraid to use leverage.
Chin up dude. Busy as hell but here's my career path
Operations -> PWM -> Training Program -> Rotational Program -> Fixed Income -> Lev Fin
with the right attitude, at the right firm, anything can be done.
Just keep hammering away at it. The people that tend to make it at anything stick with it and get their brake when others start giving up. Hang in there....
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