Posted on 09/13/2014 4:36:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Well put, John Hawkins.
Hollywood needs to get with American jobs.
Jobs.
The other side of this coin, the far bigger side of the coin, if you will, is that you can be one of the uncountable people who "worked their behinds off, day-in and day-out" and never hit it big. This is true not only of sports teams and movie casts, but Silicon Valley start-up employee rosters and Fortune 500 upper management ranks.
This is the mentality that makes people think that the “rich” and “successful” must either be lucky or alternately, they must have done something wrong by default.
Half true, half motivational speaker "you can be anything you want to be" happy-talk to keep you on the treadmill all your life. Again, you can be as good of a software engineer as a guy who's already got a million dollars worth of google stock, but maybe you didn't live here when they were interviewing for that position. Or any of a million other differences that have nothing to do with your skill.
Asserting that luck can never have anything to do with the success of Person A vs Person B is simply foul propaganda to explain away the simple fact that we cannot all be millionaires, so many of the rest of us are working our behinds off, day-in and day-out, simply to enrich those higher up in the economic food chain.
God helps them that helps themselves.
“It’s not about doing the right thing, it’s about doing the right thing every day, over and over for decades.”
Yep. No other way around it.
IOW: ‘Success is Preparation, meeting Opportunity.’
But Preparation meeting Opportunity does not necessarily lead to success, that’s my point.
Hollywood and lying are interchangeable words.
Amen!
Completely agreed.
But America, needs to support American jobs. Especially the GOP.
Stop sending jobs elsewhere. For crying out loud.
My only complaint is that he misunderstands Bilbo’s role in The Hobbit.
It’s not very difficult to be one of the BEST in your industry.
I am the absolute BEST in the trucking field. ALWAYS on time, NEVER had an accident, impeccable customer service skills, etc and my company has acknowledge my brilliance with pay bonuses along with recognition.
However this industry is NOT going to make you rich and quite frankly, I’m rather bored with it as trucking is just a job.
I know my limitations but most people STILL do not.
Dreams are nice but in reality, 90% of us will work in jobs we don’t particular care for in order to pay for homes and feed our children.
It’s called LIFE and humans have been doing it for a couple thousand years.
I see so many of my friends raising their children to believe that they have marvelous futures ahead of them because they are just so WONDERFUL and SPECIAL that they will surely be rewarded just for showing up.
My folks taught us that we had a reasonable future ahead of us if we found out what we were good at and worked like dogs to make it happen.
Once I was goofing around with my Dad and I said, “Maybe I’ll just marry a rich man!” He replied, “Where are you going to meet him? At the bus stop?”
So yes, to make it, you have to show up...but you have to show up with SOMETHING.
Some kids have so much Hollyweird influence today as if that is their education and source of reference. Kids should be taught and modeled how to work for success and then how to handle and balance finances. The non_hard work and entitlement mentality plus everyone is a star to be found mentality of Hollyweird is a poor source of reference for a successful future save for a few. Besides most Hollyweird stars are scrooged up in the head.
“Dreams are nice but in reality, 90% of us will work in jobs we don’t particular care for in order to pay for homes and feed our children. It’s called LIFE and humans have been doing it for a couple thousand years.”
That’s true, too. I feel blessed to be able to do what I love for a living...and someone is willing to pay me for it, too! :)
But, I have worked soul-sucking jobs as well.
bttt
totally agree. You can work your behind off every hour of every day, do the right thing over and over and still be just getting by.
Agree and disagree with the premise of this article. Agree that hard work is the key to success. Disagree that hard work alone is always what leads to success. Creativity, IHMO, can’t be ‘muscled’, and creativity is a huge driving engine of innovation and progression of humanity. There are other things like that. I don’t know much about sales, but I would venture a guess that even if you work for 14-16 hours a day as a salesman, if you don’t have good social skills, the man or woman who does have them may do substantially better than you - working less hours. Yes, arguably you can become ‘better’ socially by working hard at it, but some people by the nature of their genetics and upbringing just have better social skills - without having to work so hard at it.
It’s the nature vs. nurture issue in a slightly different way. Both are important.
The other issue that can’t be ignored, if one is honest about the world, is that deceitful, selfish, manipulative behavior is also, unfortunately, sometimes the fuel to success. A substantial number of ‘success’ stories involve stealing other peoples ideas, intellectual property, and contributions - often after many years of hard work by the people who wind up the victims. Some Nobel prizes have been won that way. In many circles, working hard just gets you tired, if you aren’t capable of watching your back.
I don’t know.
We have shipped entirely too many jobs to China.
Bring back jobs to America. We currently buy (last year) 440 billion dollars of goods imported from China.
We only sold last year, 122 billion dollars to China.
We are sending our jobs away. Bring them back to America.
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