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[Tks]

I got a job last week... but is it worth my time?

Hi fastlaners,
I got a a summer job at a semi-truck dealership last week, the reason is to improve my sales skill. One week into the job and I don't know if I made the right decision or not. I had this image of customers coming in the showroom to chat with the salesman but reality proved me wrong. In one week I counted 2 potential customers walking through the door and that's for the whole dealership with 7 salesmen. That number makes sense because the commission for 1 truck can cover 2 months of expense. But what I am after is practice not money. Sure, I can do marketing on social media and generate my own customer but that's not sales.

I am considering 3 options

• Contitnue the job and probably talk to <15 customers before I have to go back to university
• Find a job selling something else cheaper and have more customers. With this option I will have to go through job seeking and product training again.
• 2 tenants are going to move out of my dad's 4-plex, I can use this opportunity to do a little bit of sales. This sounds enticing because I get to be at home but there are only 2 rooms

I don't really know what is the best option right now, maybe I am asking too much from a summer job?

 

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[Goodfella999]

Im 33 years old and been having trouble tying my Jiu Jitsu Gi pants and Belt. I realized that I still only know how to tie Bunny ears and not loop swoop. I must be the only idiot that still does this...

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Haven't been on IG in months. Just tried scrolling through the feed, it is insufferable.

33% of the feed is advertising. 2 posts, 1 ad, 2 posts, 1 ad ....

 

[rjdgreat]

Good girls don't twerk

 

[Nazca]

Haven't been on IG in months. Just tried scrolling through the feed, it is insufferable.

33% of the feed is advertising. 2 posts, 1 ad, 2 posts, 1 ad ....

Your posts are all scheduled? How long are your posts scheduled for?

I use an app blocker application not to go on IG & YT during my work sessions (basically from 7 AM to 5 PM). I deactivate the blocker only if I need to catch someone through the DMs. This is pretty useful. A feedblocker is also great on PCs.

Love your posts, when I step on IG scrolling, I almost only have helpful posts like yours, or other pages. Reading them like 5 to 10 minutes a day at most not more, so it doesn't put me in fake action.

 

[UK_Mike]

Hi fastlaners,
I got a a summer job at a semi-truck dealership last week, the reason is to improve my sales skill. One week into the job and I don't know if I made the right decision or not. I had this image of customers coming in the showroom to chat with the salesman but reality proved me wrong. In one week I counted 2 potential customers walking through the door and that's for the whole dealership with 7 salesmen. That number makes sense because the commission for 1 truck can cover 2 months of expense. But what I am after is practice not money. Sure, I can do marketing on social media and generate my own customer but that's not sales.

What does the dealership expect you to do with your time, if there aren't enough walk-in customers for the existing salespeople to deal with? I wonder why they'd take someone on, on that basis. Do they put you with one of the other sales staff to learn from them, or are you just sitting around doing / learning nothing?

 

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[Get Right]

I had this image of customers coming in the showroom

What if you modified this image to "I reached out to XYZ trucking company because I saw several of their existing trucks in the shop over at ABC repairs. I have a perfect truck on the lot right now that would get them back on the road and making money".

 

[monnffffiiiiiii]

I've made almost $20k off writing online in a year and a half from Medium alone.

It's too much money to quit, but not enough to keep on doing just that.

So I need to decide how to diversify.

1. E-commerce
2. YouTube

Don't really know what to do. Thoughts?

 

[BizyDad]

Forget YT, and forget ecom.

You’re going outside of your zone of genius with both of those.

Your talent is to write and attract an audience. Not to speak on videos, run ads, etc.

So the natural path imo is to become a guru. Instead of promote other people’s products, start promoting your own.

Teach people how to become successful writers like you.

Teach people how to get traffic and attention.

Sign me up @monnffffiiiiiii

I'd be interested in that medium "shortcut" you got.

The shortcut being you've already done it and I don't even have an account.

 

[monnffffiiiiiii]

Sign me up @monnffffiiiiiii

I'd be interested in that medium "shortcut" you got.

The shortcut being you've already done it and I don't even have an account.

Ok. Ready?

Write what people want to read.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Teach people how to become successful writers like you.

Teach people how to get traffic and attention

Would you believe me if I told you I actually have *no idea* of what I am doing?

 

[monnffffiiiiiii]

Well, you clearly have much more of an idea of what you’re doing than the guy who has $0 to his name from online writing. There are many corporate drones out there who dream of making an income online via things like blogging or writing. You can teach them how you do it, they’ll find it very valuable.

So the basic idea, write what people want to read, is good. But… how do you figure out what people want to read?

Honestly this is so stupid I don't think I'd be able to sleep "selling" that. I'll write a free post on the platform as I haven't yet really delivered much value here.

 

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[BizyDad]

Honestly this is so stupid I don't think I'd be able to sleep "selling" that. I'll write a free post on the platform as I haven't yet really delivered much value here.

If you don't value what you have to offer, how do you expect anyone else to?

Would you believe me if I told you I actually have *no idea* of what I am doing?

Just a natural? Or haven't truly learned the lessons?

 

[monnffffiiiiiii]

If something comes easy to you, don’t think it comes easy to others. You’re a pro at this which is why you feel it’s so easy and stupid.

If you don't value what you have to offer, how do you expect anyone else to?



Just a natural? Or haven't truly learned the lessons?

Yeah tbh it's really easy.

I walk into a supermarket and I feel ashamed to earn more money than the people working there with 10 times less effort.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Yeah tbh it's really easy.

I walk into a supermarket and I feel ashamed to earn more money than the people working there with 10 times less effort.

BD (both of them) are right. There is a logical fallacy called the fallacy of knowledge that says once you know about something or how to do something, you undervalue it. You assume that everyone knows it! That's not true.

I have never earned any money writing online. I (might be able to) benefit from whatever you have to say about it. That is an example.

 

[BizyDad]

Yeah tbh it's really easy.

I walk into a supermarket and I feel ashamed to earn more money than the people working there with 10 times less effort.

Oh boy...

Imagine the athlete ashamed of his God given ability to jump higher or run faster, honed by years of hard work, all because everyone around him never trained...

For context, how many articles did it take to build to $20k?

 

[Kak]

“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”

Jim Collins, Good To Great

 

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[monnffffiiiiiii]

Oh boy...

Imagine the athlete ashamed of his God given ability to jump higher or run faster, honed by years of hard work, all because everyone around him never trained...

For context, how many articles did it take to build to $20k?

247

 

[Private Witt]

Ok. Ready?

Write what people want to read.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.



Would you believe me if I told you I actually have *no idea* of what I am doing?

I was gonna ask to sign up too but you saved me the $99.99 and possible recurring subscriptions right there with your one sentence tip.

Thanks, more TED Talks down road please!

 

[Antifragile]

a little real estate humor for you

 

[StrikingViper69]

Honestly this is so stupid I don't think I'd be able to sleep "selling" that. I'll write a free post on the platform as I haven't yet really delivered much value here.

Don't package it as the scammy "Work for 5 minutes a day on a laptop on the beach" thing that marketers love to make, just package it as an explanation of what you've done. You don't need to make scammy promises to get people to buy.

"Here's my results, here's how I got them, it' $50, thank you".

You can tell people:

• Your results over time
• Average article length
• How you find ideas for articles
• How you structure them

You're not promising anything, you're making a documentation of what you've done. Let others decide if it's valuable or not with their wallets. Have it as a $7 PDF, and a $17/mo "community" where you'll help people / answer questions.

 

[StrikingViper69]

Shopify has a neat business model, with several streams of income.

The obvious one is the monthly subscription. This monetises all their clients equally (yes a few upgrades are offered).

Then there is shopify payments, used to process credit cards. Now they're monetising every sale you make. The fees are inline with Stripe, but still... how much money does Shopify process? They must make a fortune from this.

Once your store reaches a certain level, they offer you loans, that can be repaid via your sales.

They're really an online payments and loans company, using the platform as customer acquisition and lock in.

Pretty neat, in a similar way to how McDonalds is in the real estate business.

And an awesome platform.

 

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[GuestUser4aMPs1]

Are programmers utterly incapable of solving *real-world* problems, or is it just me?

Nearly every professional programmer I've met has zero clue about how to use their skills to make the world better.

Instead they f*ck around making widgets that help exactly nobody.

 

[Andy Black]

I walk into a supermarket and I feel ashamed to earn more money than the people working there with 10 times less effort.

I think you should fix that or you'll forever sabotage yourself.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Balls of Steel...

Lights up a smoke during the robbery, refuses to give up his phone...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1668341390026342401

View: https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1668341390026342401?s=20

 

[MitchC]

Balls of Steel...

Lights up a smoke during the robbery, refuses to give up his phone...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1668341390026342401

View: https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1668341390026342401?s=20

Crazy, balls of steel for sure, but man if you want a good example of asymmetric downside risk, it’s this

 

[rjdgreat]

"Action before answer" - MJ DeMarco Unscripted page 310

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

To what extent do other people sabotage and control you, and block/prevent you from achieving your goals? I see this theme a lot on the forum: getting away from people who block you from achieving the fastlane and reaching your dreams.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Crazy, balls of steel for sure, but man if you want a good example of asymmetric downside risk, it’s this

You bet, huge. Prime example on how luck plays a role in life. He got lucky with what I'd call, a bad decision.

 

[GuestUser4aMPs1]

Balls of Steel...

Lights up a smoke during the robbery, refuses to give up his phone...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1668341390026342401

View: https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1668341390026342401?s=20

"If I don't move, maybe they'll think I'm not here."

 

[CosmicMind]

To what extent do other people sabotage and control you, and block/prevent you from achieving your goals?

People have Demons.

They gaslight you by projecting their emotions, beliefs and expectations that don't reflect your true potential.

We've all experienced this from teachers, parents and friends.

Life does this to people. It's as if no-one wants you to be a success. That's why they want you to be "educated" but not "smart".

On another level, the system doesn't want you to have this valuable ontological status. They don't want you know the terms of the psychological mechanisms being weaponized for more power and profit. There's a reason why its not part of the common vernacular.