It took 10 applications, 4 months and nearly a 100 calls to get a job interview after I was fresh out of school.
After the exercise and a formality handshake, I was given the job. Because of my inexperience, I was told a doctor will join me, oversee what I did and help reduce my learning curve.
I spent the first evening in a small consulting room expecting the said doctor to arrive as I kept thinking about the many cases that may come and I'd run out of steam on how to treat.
Tonsillitis came....no senior doctor
Seizure disorder came...no senior doctor.
I sprinted to my boss.
"I thought you said there'll be a doctor"
"Are you afraid to be alone?" he asked prosaically.
My salary was too small for me to have any ego. I always felt they were doing me a favor by employing me. But I hated the figure nonetheless. I cannot even tell you. It's that bad.
So I learnt hard on the job. Watched videos on how to do vital procedures and practiced hard on dolls and mattresses.
I improved my skills till we began to get referrals from other hospitals.
As soon as I saw my skills become shiny, I knew it was time for a raise.
I stopped my boss on his way home one evening and threw him the big question.
We went back and forth for about a minute and yes, I got a raise!
Young people generally don't do what I did.
They get irritated about work and rather than learn the ropes, they quickly want to earn the respect, the money, the freedom.
They get a corporate job and rather than stay(for a while), get some career capital, grow some top-level contact, make some money and more of it as they get proficient, they bolt out the door because looking at a computer for 16 hours/day is uninteresting.
Then they start a ramshackle business on the bill of gusto and enthusiasm; suffering and stumbling until they fold the enterprise up.
Before you are offered a raise, a freedom to do your thing or control over how you spend your time, your skills or your productivity, you have to pay your dues. Learn skills that people find it difficult to turn you down.
Don't be madly driven by the prospects of being called a CEO of a company that you want to be a cheap one because "you can't work under someone"
Learn. Then leave.
Not the other way around.
Hmmm, true, learning skills is needed, but working under someone is nkt a necessity .
In this crypto world, I have seen those who never had a cooperate job do exploits, not because they were lucky to get some crypto, but because they had the zeal and will.
You make it seem as though without working under someone, a person cant be a boss of his own.
We are often shackled by the idea that we must go to school, we must work for a salary, we must follow the norm.
The rules of the world sre meant to keep one down, to keep one chained, to keep one working 9-5, earning a pay.
I have freedom without working for anyone , I grew myself, my skills, I paid for it, some I got for free, I learnt by any mean except work for someone , cause the people i wanted to work for, wanted to use me instead.
Today i direct musicians , i teach, i am the boss so to speak......learning never stops , and thats the idea i run with, not working under someone.
I do get the rest of your point, im jist picking that particular one.
Definitely you need to connect, grow, learn.
I agree with this
This truly isn't a post that advocates a compulsory "learn under someone" mantra.
No.
It is simply "learn".
Anyone who made it big and has sustained the value they give in exchange for money has learned the ropes before the riches.
They didnt just bolt out and started a business on the wings of enthusiasm. They learned, took little bets and had a mosaic of success and failures until incremental achievements became monumental.
Thanks for your lovely contribution sir.
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Preach, ma'am. Preach!🔥👏👏
Smiles...thanks boss