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I think you are missing the point here.

I am talking about an opportunity to turn crap work into at least challenging work.

I have worked some pretty crappy jobs myself from packaging crab cakes to cleaning at 3 in the morning to sorting packages. There is always things to focus on that will make it worthwhile.

When I was 22 I was head of sales for a small telemarketing business. The people working there where young and the job pretty freaking boring but hard as hell. The average number of individual orders that people would accomplish in a day ranged from 5 to 40. Which meant that I had some frequency to play with. So I invented a bunch of games that had bonuses attached to them.

Sales went up 200% and that is for the people on canvas.

You might not choose your own job, but you do choose how you approach it.




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