eBooks - Health & Self Improvement - Inspiration - HARVEY MACKAY - We Got Fired!
We Got Fired! eBooks
by HARVEY MACKAY
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We Got Fired! Summary
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Out of the Closet ?How do you define a secret? When one person knows it.? Right now, I know something you don?t. I got fired, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me! I?Harvey Mackay, who has been sharkproofing the world against job loss with over 10 million books sold since 1988?was fired. I?m now out of the closet. It wasn?t that I tried to hide a black spot on my career. It was that I didn?t think the whole deal was all that important. Last year I thought about it further. And then I realized it was important. Not maybe the firing itself, but the lessons I learned as a result of it. It literally changed my life. But it was embarrassing. So I had dodged giving it any significance for more than half a century. Here?s the straight story. My father, Jack Mackay, was the Associated Press correspondent in St. Paul, Minnesota. He virtually had only one job his entire life . . . and yes, he stayed around for thirty-five years to collect his gold watch. He was the best of the best. He took a backseat to no one, especially when it came to delivering scoops . . . the lifeline of a reporter. Growing up as a kid, I came from modest beginnings, and my father was insistent there was no substitute for working odd jobs during summer vacations and Christmas holidays. I had a myriad of short stints from setting pins at a bowling alley to delivering newspapers to working at a driving range. It was summer vacation my junior year in high school and I had just landed a neat job at a downtown St. Paul men?s clothing store . . . and, of course, my father with his connections got me the job. Now, peddling pants, socks, underwear, ties, hankies, and occasionally a shirt or two may not sound like the most glamorous position in the world . . . but in retrospect, it was a great gig. At a young age, I had an opportunity to learn about business . . . having a boss to report to . . . showing up for work on time . . . handling money and cred... |
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