Every single major advance I’ve had came about precisely as you described. Show up, work hard, opportunities present themselves and the guys in charge would rather promote somebody who is a known quantity.
Along the way I’ve had to learn bookkeeping, accounting, finance, negotiating, basic legal concepts, project coordination, concrete repair, commercial plumbing and electric. Wouldn’t trade my OJT for a Harvard degree, because the best part has been the friends I’ve made along the way.
that’s a great story and that’s a lot of nonsense about the government needing to train people and educate people. They don’t want to do that. They want to hire cheap labor from India. That’s all they want to do.