You Inc. Your Dot Com Start Up

Could you stop building everyone else’s empire and start your own?

The  American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you  there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to  have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea,  hard work and determination. — — Bill Rancic

My first real full time job was my forth one. I was no stranger to working  having already had three part time gigs. Just out of High School, a  friend and I went to apply for positions in this little strip mall deli.  To our surprise, we both got hired on as cooks.

My  life was about to get impacted, I learned much there. I’ll never forget  that experience, the menu had 8 items and one of the specialty  sandwiches was a Grilled Peanut Butter and Jelly. It was a humble and  simple beginning and all I could see from there. No mentors around to guide me, I had had it with school, cook was it, for now.

The  owners were a young couple really not much older than I was at the  time. It would not be long before I was offered the role of Assistant  Manager. On I went, cooking PB&J’s, ham sandwiches, prepping and  making steak soup. We also kept knocking down walls, expanding the  restaurant.

I  gave that couple 5 of my best years only to have a slight dispute with a  waitress over a short till somehow end in my firing. Then, my boss  decided it would be appropriate to fight the unemployment claim saying  that I quit. He won and my education in the sometimes harsh realities of  employment began.

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