You Own Your Career

Motivational Power Quote

You Own Your Career

“Job Security is gone. The driving force of a career must come

from the individual. Remember; jobs are owner by the company.

You own your career .”

Earl Nightingale 1921 - 1973, American Motivational Speaker

and Author

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

You own your career

When you’re employed it’s easy to look at your role in the company as a job . . . . Fact is if you look at your role in the company as just a job, your mindset will become a self-fulfilling prophecy of limited grow and opportunity.

When you look at your role in your company as a career . . . . There’s a change in the mindset and one of unlimited growth and potential.

A young high school student Billy was about to turn sixteen needed a job to save enough money to be able to buy his first car and found a job in a sporting goods store.

Billy was passionate about having the opportunity and put a 100% effort in working at the store and learning about the business.

During the school year Billy worked part time, in the summers and on days off from school he worked full days.  As Billy worked in the sporting goods be watches a number of people come and go during that time.

He was seen as being a hard worker by Mr. Carson, the owner of the business. Mr. Carson gave Billy give him more responsibility as time when by.

As Billy approached graduating from high school Mr. Carson offered him a full time job and Billy accepts his new role with enthusiasm.  

Billy impresses the business owner with his dedication and eventual worked his way up to sales, to department manager. One day when they were speaking Mr. Carson told Billy that he not only worked hard in the business . . . . but he worked liked he owned the business.

Billy grew into middle age as the owner of the business was growing older as well.

One day Mr. Carson approached Billy and said that he would like to talk to him. Mr. Carson said that he has been thinking about retiring for some time and that he had decided to retire and to sell the business.  

Billy was shocked and couldn’t speak. The air was tense and was filled with silence for next several moments. 

Finally Mr. Carson broke the silence and told Billy that he was selling the business to him.

Billy said that he didn’t have the money to by the business . . . . Mr. Carson smiled replied that it wasn’t an issue . . . . that he through about this moment for a long time, and that he was going to finance the business for Billy.

Mr. Carson when on to tell Billy that the business would be in good hands with him. . . . and that Billy had operated the business for years like it was his own.

Billy what from a part time role in the business into a manager and into the ownership of a very successful business . . . . and in all those years Billy never had a job . . . . Billy had a career.

Your own your career . . . . and are 100% responsibility for the direction that it takes.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant,

Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author