I tried to convince myself to like it because I really believed back then that it was my only way out of poverty toward a respectable career and status and money and feeling good about myself when I woke up in the morning and all that stuff Galloway names But God, it didn't work
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I got myself out of that job the instant I had the opportunity to stop doing it All of the weird ADHD shit that made me good at it was very bad for me as a person -- this sense of looming pressure, this animal instinct to always be hunting the next lead, never feeling safe
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I try not to describe that period in my life like it makes me badass or cool I don't think it was, and I don't even think I was good at the job because I was a likable, personable person Thinking back on it always reminds me of Bill selling the protein bars in King of the Hill
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God and see *I know what he means* by "your competence will itself become your passion" Fuck, I knew the pitch inside and out, better than my boss did I spent my spare time doing research and rehearsing in my head so I always had something to say to "overcome objections"
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I was, like, filled with facts about the product, about our competitors, about random shit the potential customer might want to chit-chat about I had *strong opinions* about selling in our market, about which territories were ripe pickings and which ones were duds
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And all of this fucking hurts to think back on I spent so much more energy during that time period thinking about this shit, getting better at something that *didn't matter* It was *so stupid* I haven't looked up the company once since I stopped working there
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God imagine if I'd spent that time able to fully focus on shit like taking improv or acting classes (which I was trying to juggle on top of my job at the time) Would I be a great stand-up comedian in New York today? Probably not, but I'd have enjoyed life a lot more
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Imagine if I'd had all that time to spend working on myself, or my relationships Or thinking about the world and trying to just be wiser, more insightful, more empathetic Maybe it wouldn't have worked but it'd at least have been more worth the effort
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Galloway is, I think, attacking a strawman, or at least painting with too broad a brush, when he diagnoses quitters with just being unable to handle adversity "The moment it gets hard and it isn't immediately pleasurable anymore, you give up and you decide it's not your passion"
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I don’t know anything about that guy, and don’t really care to dig any deeper than that clip and his Twitter profile. But I’m guessing that he doesn’t have a history of working wage based labor jobs, or at least not for any real length of time.
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I'm a big fan of the game Cart Life, which has been read by a lot of people as political -- it's about working a pretty shitty job (operating an independent pushcart vendor, selling newspapers and concessions etc on a city street) and trying desperately to make ends meet
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But the creator said that wasn't the primary intention I mean, the theme is there, as an inevitable result of what doing a job like that while trying to pay rent in New York is like But the player character doesn't spend all day thinking about that any more than real people do
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He said the game was about this weird sense of flow you get, once you get good enough at a job like that to be competent at it There are *so many things* you have to know to operate a pushcart stand, that don't have anything to do with each other
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