You're back from college, and you haven't landed on the job you really wanted. Not yet. You are in debt, and your grace period for the loan is about to end. Should you start applying for a job anywhere? If you take the first sentence that comes to your mind?
Here is what I will do. Just like when you applied for college, you had better options and backup options, you should do the same with tasks, choose places to work like your best bets and others that follow.
Here are my best places to work (of no particular order of importance) if I can't land my desired job right off the bat:
1) Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, or Apple Store.
2) A coffee shop in a rich area or near the financial district
3) Bar in a country club or in a high-class restaurant
4) Dealership / showroom BMW, Mercedes or Tesla.
5) Designer (tailor) high-end (tailor), shoes or store wallets
What do all these places have in common? They include sales, customer service and, most importantly, the ability to communicate with players of money and social placement.
Places like Fry & Electronics and Best Buy are often visited by engineers, nerds, technology managers and ordinary people who want to work a lot on TV, laptop, etc. You may also have employees who have free technology business. In general, you will not only get a salary working for Fry, but also create your first network of contacts both from your own home and from quality visitors to the store. However, if you simply continue your day, following the rules, following the sales scenarios, not winding as much information as you can about your customer to see if they can make good contact, your first job will be wasted.
Your first job is to break out of your shell. The photo was funny, and you had a party with friends, but you should not look at it, it does not look like the real world. In the real world, relationships are most important. You cannot build relationships that improve your social capital without conversational skills. Showing interest, being friendly, asking questions (not pushing) questions, gaining trust are skills you didn't learn in college, but what the world of money actually does.
If you are already working on your first job and want to learn how to improve your status, I have a great recommendation for you:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-your-first-job-is-the-most-important-205057956.html
I'm also going to start something new, but only for my blog subscribers. I am going to write a newsletter twice a month, where I will share the secret with my success: to be brave and knowing how to stand out in America. We live in a highly competitive society, and getting what you want becomes more and more difficult when social networks take it all. Let me help you become a talkative genius!
