🗞️Paperboy 🎳Skittles sticker upper 🏪Checkout attendant 🥖Bakery assistant 📦Warehouse packer 🏭Paint factory worker 🪵Sawmill dogsbody 🍽️Waiter 🍺Bartender 🌃Night shift worker Even though I started relatively young, before my business journey (and even during the early days), I had a LOT of low-pay, hard-graft, under-appreciation jobs. Many of which I actually look back on fondly and several left me with some valuable skills (not to mention humorous stories). The other benefit was that I always knew what the "worse case scenario" looked like. I was more than willing and able to do the jobs that just need doing in order to survive. There are many paths to entrepreneurship, it doesn't have to just rely on relevant experience, easy funding or nepotism (which are certainly the easier options if you have them available 😛). Do what needs to be done, there's absolutely zero shame in it. Personally, I have even more respect for those who didn't get to jump straight to the fun stuff.
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1yI enjoyed a lot of my more menial jobs, although they could be tedious you always felt you could get somewhere with it, or work overtime for top up cash. I particularly enjoyed being a paperboy, it was nice being out on my bike in the early morning, unless it was snowing or raining!