my first “real” job
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“I used to be a technical writer at an information security auditing firm…
Which was about as fun as it sounds.”
That’s how I describe my first “real” job to people. But there’s one thing that description doesn’t account for:
The people.
They were great. And I respected the hell out of the founder/CEO.
His name was Joseph, and I learned a business lesson from him that I still reference often.
We had plans to launch a new product/service offering, but we were behind schedule. When Joseph found out about this, he said:
“Okay. We’re going to launch it anyway.”
Now, this is the part where I’d love to tell you we launched it and it was a huge success and we made a zillion dollars…
But honestly?
I don’t remember what happened.
I’m going to blame it on all the pot I smoked in high school. But regardless of what ended up happening, here was my takeaway:
Successful people don’t wait until everything is “perfect” to get moving.
They don’t wait until they are “absolutely, positively ready.”
They get close. And then they get moving.
Robert
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