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OftenBen  ·  3300 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mathew 6:24 and sales

Interesting choice of inspiration there.

Kind of related, what do you think of the idea that, in an ideal scenario, students should also have a job of some kind in addition to their studies? Talking about high school students, college undergrads specifically.





thenewgreen  ·  3300 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Interesting choice of inspiration there.
is it? Seems to have been inspiring people for a pretty long time.

As for students, I think it depends on how much they are working and how much they need to be studying. However, I think it's important for young people to learn to balance work and life. They don't have much of "life "outside of schooling at that age so, yeah. Get a job hippy.

For many people there will come a time when they have a family to balance, a job to balance, friendships to nurture and hobbies to pursuit. So having those two things in college or in high school it's a good primer for what is to come.

I worked too much in college, but I had to support myself almost entirely. That said, it set me up for some success in life. I'm grateful that I wasn't given everything and had to work. -I didn't see it that way at the time though, but it was a good thing for me.

OftenBen  ·  3300 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Religion and sales do kinda go hand in hand I guess. I've had Zig Ziglar quotes thrown at me by every sales trainer I've ever worked with.

thenewgreen  ·  3300 days ago  ·  link  ·  

____ and sales go hand in hand. -Just about anything can be placed in that blank.