The Power of Twitter: How You Can Find Your Dream Job

By: Ryan, on April 22, 2009

I would not hire this guy. Not because I don’t appreciate the effort he put into this, or his entrepreneurial spirit. It’s just that the best people I’ve ever worked with are also the most humble people I’ve ever worked with. Even in advertising, where every business essentially amounts to a greedy pack of wolves, I’ve noticed a clear separation between the talkers and the doers.  I don’t really know which I am, maybe a little bit of both. However, at my first job I learned the hard way that you have to recognize your weaknesses more so than your strengths in this business. Your weak points are also your failure points, you have to be able to leverage the skills and abilities of others, and recognize their genius in order to be great at interactive.

Finally, I went to business school. It didn’t teach me anything I needed to know to be successful in business. It taught me how to think critically. Has that been worthwhile? Probably not, but at least when I’m sitting in front of a whiteboard at 3am trying to solve a difficult problem I can recall how I learned to think through them in college. So maybe those finance classes were a waste of my time, but all challenges are creative challenges on some level.

Anyway, make up your own mind. He did at least inspire me to finish my new site.

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