JackFromWisconsin

You don't always get it right the first time round. Maybe you are lacking in education, or perspective, or you have some extenuating circumstance preventing you from overall success. I introduced my experience with starting over in a previous essay and I would like to expand on my experience specifically with leaving my first job and finding something new.  There was one weekend that told me I needed change. It was me and one other manager this Saturday, unfortunately the manager that didn't see eye-to-eye with me. Everyone else was out on vacation. Of course, being the restaurant industry, you can get a rush out of the blue. And there I was, desserts station backed up 15+ minutes and I have to step in and help out. Being there was the last place I wanted to be at the moment. I just didn't feel it anymore. But, I got the job done and when it was all said and done, I went home at the end of my shift. I knew I had to try the last thing I hadn't tried yet - quit. ...

I don't know anyone who hasn't started over at some point in their life, whether they moved to a new area, or got a new job, or decided to study something different in school. Starting over is a core human experience, and one that you should know how to navigate. I have "achieved my goals", then quit and moved to a new job. I moved out of my hometown and learned how to live with roommates. In my last essay, Winning Is a Habit , I introduced the lessons from Vince Lombardi and the influence my dad had on my life. Those lessons underpin it all and give me the framework for trying new things. I want to talk about my first job. I got hired at a local fast-food chain when I was 15, and I stuck with it for nearly four and a half years. My dad worked for the same company back in the day, and when I indicated I was thinking about getting a job, he helped me apply. My duties at first were very simple - bring food out to customers and keep the dining room clean. I would eventua...

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.  —Vince Lombardi Vince Lombardi was a football coach and Green Bay Packers general manager during the 1960s. He is remembered today for taking a struggling football team in 1959 and leading them to winning five championship titles across seven seasons. As head coach he had a very distinctive leadership style. He focused on the fundamentals, first and foremost. It didn't matter to him if you were a rookie, or played for the team that won last year's NFL Championship game. Each season he started by holding a football and saying to the team "Gentlemen, this is a football." My dad growing up was a huge Packers fan. Football wasn't just something he enjoyed watching, rather he learned teamwork, leadership, and how to achieve goals from the game. It was thes...