Career Day

[mlmpetert]

Tomorrow I am going to speak at a middle school career day. I think I am speaking to 6 or so classes and I only have 20 minutes to talk to each class.

I want to briefly discuss what I do and possible the types of needs and themes I see in the economy. The main thing I want to focus on is work ethic (plan to make a London Fletcher / Tom Brady type analogy). Finally I want to talk about “life lesson” type quotes or stories, which is where I need your help (yes you!).

Here are a couple im thinking about using for example. My plan is to explain or back up the quote / story with references to things ive seen and dealt with in my working life.

There are 2 types of jobs in this world – sales and sales support.

I had a professor who talked about the nicest wedding he had ever been to (75k +). He told us about it because bride and groom left a hour or so early because they couldn’t get over the fact that they were paying the limo driver $150/hour to wait for them outside. So even though the fixed costs of ceremony and reception were costing them well over 10k per hour, they, like many people, had trouble getting over a relatively very small and incidental variable cost. The point being is stay focused on the big picture and don’t get let the relatively small things drive your decision making.

Don’t let a good plan be derailed by the perfect plan.

Regardless of what you may have been told you cant become anything you want, otherwise we would all be firemen, football stars, and models.

Focus on your strengths. (I recommend reading/taking Strengths Finder to fellow warpathers).



Does anyone here have any valuable life lessons, quotes, or stories they would like to share?