by Lazz Laszlo
“No you can’t.” Has anyone ever said that to you?
I have been told “No you can’t” dozens, if not, hundreds of times in my life. I used to listen, but luckily, I became defiant at an early age.
The “authorities on life” who surround you, aren’t really that perceptive as to what you can do. They just pretend they are and mostly because they aren’t able to attempt what you said that you were going to do.
“No you can’t” should make you upset, but upset in a good way. Be upset in the “Oh yeah, just watch me” kind of way.
I was taught by one of my mentors, that
believing
that you can is 99.9% of achieving whatever it is that you set out to do.
How many people apply for a job at a company just once? Be persistent and keep going back if you really want it. Maybe the person they hired instead of you didn’t work out and left or was fired.
You never know when a company is testing your sincerity about being interested in a position by telling you that you are not qualified.
I’ll share this abbreviated story with you.
I wanted to get into the investment business, so I took a week to investigate the firms in Los Angeles, where their branch offices were located, and who the managers were. I researched and wrote a simple, but complete, resume’ highlighting my experience and skills.
On a Monday morning I walked in to Paine Webber, Jackson, and Curtis and asked to see the manager Bob Perkins. Long story short, he made me come back three times before he agreed to let me test for their training program.
After I was hired, he told me that the reason that he kept asking me to comeback at different times on different days, was to see if I was truly committed to becoming an investment executive.
Being dismissed from the first interview without asking, arguing, or fighting for a second chance is worse than not going on a career interview at all.
If you’re a wage slave and stuck in a cubicle with the hope of escaping the confines of your 9 to 5 job, you shouldn’t be waiting for the phone to ring with a magic offer or miracle income cure.
You have to make it happen.
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