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What I Learned From Spending A Decade With The Ultra Rich
Why you don’t need to work hard, go to school & get a degree to be successful.
When I was a kid I hated school.
I couldn’t imagine graduating from high school only to get a job and pay to do more of what I hated by going to college.
People used to always tell me ‘you’ve got to work hard, go to school and get a degree if you want to be successful’.
That formula was hammered into my head and for a long time I believed it.
After a few painful quarters of the local Community College, I decided it wasn’t worth it and resigned myself to never being successful.
A Stroke Of Luck
While I was still in high school, one of my friends asked me if I wanted to get a job washing dishes with him at the local Country Club where all the rich and wealthy people hung out.
I didn’t want to be a dishwasher and the only other job I qualified for was to be clearing tables as a bus boy, a small step up the ladder.
The thing I didn’t realize is that one job would change the course of my life in a way I never could have imagined.
It put me front-facing with the members and over the next decade I worked my way up from busboy to waiter to…
