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Could you take a course of 2.2 billion euros a year salary?
This month, I would like to highlight a real success story of someone who followed exactly the same steps that I encourage my students to follow, and give $ 2.2 million a year for wages next five years.
For those not in San Diego, or who are not fans of the NFL, Chargers general manager AJ Smith has signed a contract five years worth $ 11 million. But the interesting thing about this not pay, because the professional football pays its' players, coaches and managers very well, that's how AJ ended up in the NFL, first fascinating.
AJ Smith was a health and physical education teacher in Rhode Island twenty years ago when he left to join the professional football time full with the Chargers. The first time I decided to enter the NFL, yet he had no experience in professional football. It did not matter, however.
This is what he did: he wrote letters to a number of NFL teams to ask one thing: the opportunity to work free. Most have been overlooked, but a team that said yes, and that's all I needed. Jim Trimble, the personnel director of the New York Giants end was intrigued enough to call back and see what they had to say. This is what Smith said: "What I do is come to work for nothing. I do not ask to pay, I experience so that next year, if I am no good, at least I have a letter of recommendation.
He spent a year with the Giants as a volunteer scout, then moved to New England (on the recommendation of Trimble) as a part-time film grade … $ 3 per hour. The money runs out, and it seems that cost him money to work when he had paid his car with gas, but he put his foot in the door. His wife, Sue was quoted in the San Diego Union Tribune recently as saying: "We've never been in this business for him to be a counselor delegate. I was going to enter the company into something that he loved. He would have to be a goalkeeper. I would have taken a position to get your foot in the door. "
And now he is paid millions to do something he loves.
So what is the lesson for you? First, did exactly what I encourage my students to do for years: take the initiative to contact people in the business or in an area that interests you and provides work for free, requesting only a letter of recommendation or if you do and for AJ Smith has done. Many employers who ignore or say no … but you just have to say yes. Then when you get the chance, treat as if you were paid. It was reported that Smith recorded entry and exit time as a factory worker, even when I was volunteering. If you find something that you hate after a while, is very well. Now you do not waste time to learn more about the neighborhood or career and may proceed to the next on the list.
Another addition, if you think it's something you love, you never know what the first job would be. In the case of Smith is his boss' in the first place, the guy who worked for free — Creating the second job for him, but this time it was paid. He took him to the CEO of the magazine in 2003, when Bill Butler (the GM before him) died.
So I do not want to be a rookie. Everyone must start at the bottom of the totem and the pay scale. So do not feel you are being exploited by working for free. You do not because we can win something very precious to you … experience.
Finally, as to go to work anyway for decades, might as well find something you love. It is often quoted that you should "find something you enjoy doing, and you'll never work a day in your life, well This is partly true, you should find a job benefit, but there must be some way decent pay. Who knows, maybe like AJ Smith of the Chargers, there is something who ultimately pay millions for what he does for free.
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Ron Caruthers is the nation’s leading expert on how to get into college and pay for it-as well as helping students choose their careers and command top money in their fields. Ron also has expert knowledge of how to prepare for a college interview.
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