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Originally Posted by branch $$$ manager  Look I'm just keeping my head down, working hard, and moving onwards and upwards. Remember - history is made everyday. Everything you do is your history. I'll look back and remember that I took no shortcuts, that I earned everything I got.
What will you have? foggy memories of floating around the beach, drunk all the time? You don't think you'll be kicking yourself later when you could have been fully vested and in on the money?
To eahc their own. Some people are happy being given a small fish or 2 every day, some people want to build their own fleet of fishing boats.
I put my pants on one shoe at a time. I build my house one brick at a time. No easy way out. I love my team and feel like a proud parent when one of my MTs gets picked to be the BCAM or gets to be in the Best Persons program. Ok? |
What will my memories be? Well, yes they will be of floating around the beach with my friends. They will be of all the vacations I took with my wife and family, vacations to places you read about and see on tv. I actually go there. I am in on the money, I make more than I did at ERAC, in a job that I love, in a place that respects me. Sure, people come here all the time bragging about the 9-5 and the comfy office, and the no ties. I have all that. But the thing I like most is the respect I get from my co-workers, clients, and people I know and meet. Do you think that the body shop down the street respects you? or the service department at the dealership? No, you are one in a long line of people that have come and gone. ANd within two months of you leaving they won't even remember you. As for what you say about feeling like a proud parent, do you feel like a failure when they quit? Or do you say they "couldn't hack it"? I will never look back on my life and say I should have done this or I wish I did that, because I am doing it. If the highlight of your weekend is pool hopping and taking the chick down the street for ice cream then hey, good for you. But when I am standing in front of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming or rafting a river in Denali national Park Alaska I will call those highlights. I've done both of those since leaving ERAC, now that I have a job that gives me 5 weeks vacation and doen't complain when I take it. I build my house one brick at a time too, and at least when my house is built I will have people around to share it with me and I will be around to enjoy it. I hope you have the balls to post back here after you are shown the door or even when things start to go downhill because hey, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong!