Thanks for the great reply. Back in high school I used to work at a real nice hotel doing Bell and Valet service. I remember being quite similar to your experience as a bartender. I wasn't dancing but the job had its own charm in running a mile for cars or seeing how well I could pack the bags in a car and all of the other small things like those that make up a job like that. I also attribute learning how to be more social to this job like you do with your bartender job. Being forced to talk to strangers all day definitely builds up some networking suaveness.
The thing that I really liked about the guest services gig was that the harder I worked the bigger my take. I made a lot of money doing the job and I definitely felt better about it because I knew that if I hadn't put in my best effort I wouldn't have made quite as much. So, I guess what I am trying to assert is that perhaps there is a sort of link me and presumably you, sophacles, who enjoyed working a service job, moreover one that most people hate, because of the nature or getting more value for more work and our interest in entrepreneurship?
Maybe there is that link you assert. I'm not sure tho, what you are saying... I do enjoy the nature of getting more value for work, and I have a passing interest in entrepreneurship, in that it usually involves an interesting challenge. I am however, very unmotivated by money (and value as measured by it) as an end.
To me money is merely a means. The real goals are:
* Interesting problems
* Interesting people interactions
* adventures
* access to cool toys/equipment (and the actual need for it)
* changing environment
Money just pays the bills and puts food on the table. I personally have a long history of maximizing the points above (the money has been good enough to not be a problem too :)). Sure, I could work real hard, and get the money to enable the rest, but the net money and benefits would probably be the same, but for more work. Instead I build a way to get my goals into my environment.
Yea that definitely does. I am trying to live my life after I graduate from school the same way. My biggest fear is sitting at a desk doing nothing of importance for the next 40 years. Being from a small town and living a pretty boring life for my first quarter I want to have adventure and not just horde piles of junk.
The thing that I really liked about the guest services gig was that the harder I worked the bigger my take. I made a lot of money doing the job and I definitely felt better about it because I knew that if I hadn't put in my best effort I wouldn't have made quite as much. So, I guess what I am trying to assert is that perhaps there is a sort of link me and presumably you, sophacles, who enjoyed working a service job, moreover one that most people hate, because of the nature or getting more value for more work and our interest in entrepreneurship?