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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
host touched on part of it for me. I think that by most measures, I'm a "successful businessman", although I have nothing to do with stock markets.
I am up at 5 every morning, out the door by 6 and at my desk between 6:20 and 6:30. My phone starts ringing around then, and I generally have 7 to 10 emails to deal with, along with all the stuff I left undone at the end of the day before. I generally have lots of paperwork to sign as well, and that's when I usually wade through it all. I have clients on the East and West Coasts, and I manipulate time zones for their and my benefit - for instance this morning I am finalizing a deal with an Atlanta underwriter for a Las Vegas client. I try to leave as close to 5 as I can every day so that I get to see my kids.
I think that monetarily successful people (I hope you appreciate that nod to you, host) work the hours they do because they feel pressed to accomplish goals. I certainly do. I habitually work 11 hour days every day I'm in the office. I post here in between phone calls and emails, although I've certainly been guilty of putting my phone on mute and posting here when the greater conversation ranges away from my areas of expertise.
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I'm going to tack onto this since it's basically what I was going to say including the mute on the phone.
MTV taught me some very valuable lessons. "Someone is willing to sit in the same seat for less money and put in the same effort and same hours, all to say that they work at MTV Networks," is what the Vice President of Technology told me on my third interview. He was the reality check after 2 very fun out of the box interviews which were to determine if I fit the culture. No one at that company came in before 10AM, except those that climbed the ladder. People wondered all the time, "How come they promoted so and so, and they overlooked him and her?" Well, most often it was because the person was in early and stayed late. They produced. They got shit done. That's the important part, at the end of the day, I'm trying to get more done than the guy who is willing to sit in my seat for less money.
I don't have that same spirit any longer. I'm much more complacent. But I'm still willing to when the project or company needs it, I will put in more hours. Not because I want to, but because I need to in order to get things done, and hopefully be rewarded accordingly.
My goal is to eventually wake up when I'm done sleeping, no alarm clocks, no early morning meetings.
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