The Next Big Adventure: A job change

Gone are the days of taking the job I'm qualified for. Now is the day where I put on my balls and I say "I can do that job. I don't know how to yet, but I'll learn it real quick, and do it better than anyone else on your list there." Gone are the days of limiting my options to the jobs I'm familiar with, that I've been explicitly trained for by my classes. Gone are the days of including high school accomplishments on my resume. The phrases "I can't" and "I'm not ready" will be struck from my vocabulary.

I'm out to seek power. Being a good person, a contributor, is all well and good, but you have to be powerful if you want to really affect change in any way. I don't think I'm going to be the next Bill Gates or Bill Clinton but I will become a name, someone that people think they're not good enough to speak to or meet. But the first step to becoming one of those people, is to approach those people as if you are one of them. Don't be intimidated. Never think of yourself as less. Because I'm not. I am smart, I am talented, and I can be clever though I am not yet refined nor polished. But that's just a matter of practice.

I will approach people at the top of the ladder as if I have a right to be there. I will ask what I can do for them. These are people who are very used to being able to do things for other people; their curiousity will be piqued by someone who has something to offer them. First you had my interest, now you have my attention. If I act like I have something to offer, they will give me the opportunity to offer it.

I shouldn't have cut my own hair. Too late now. I should wait for my face to heal before I go see anyone important. But I will make the impression, I will get the job. They just don't know it yet.