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Get A Proper Job
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CJay Distribution
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13 July 2012
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I was out in the sunshine yesterday delivering leaflets for a local business when a group of - let's call them not quite upstanding citizens - wearing muscle vests and pants half way down their backsides started having a laugh together in that 13-yr-old-making-a-joke-about-you-and-thinking-you-don't-realise-it's-about-you way. When they had walked past me and got about 100 yards away from me again, one of them turned round and shouted "Get a proper job!".Now, being a civilised kind of person, I didn't fancy having a conversation regarding my "job" over such a distance so just let it go. But it got me thinking about first impressions and how it can lead us away from the truth and also about what is perceived as a proper job.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
We often believe that first impressions are a very good indicator about a person. So what do you think when you see a leaflet distributor in your area? Someone who can't be bothered getting a "proper" job? Someone who is doing whatever they can to put food on a table? Someone you hate because they put all that crap through your door?
When you see me delivering, think how I've built up a business on the trust I have earned from various clients and re-inventing pre-existing notions about leaflet distributors. Think how leafletting is only 10% of my workload now that I've moved my core business into mail delivery rather than leaflets. Think how wrong first impressions can be!
PROPER JOBS
What is classified as a proper job? Is there really any difference between a company manager and a manual labourer? They are both using skills they possess to operate on a daily basis. The difference is, the director has to be on the top of his game every day to make the business operate to it's full potential. The labourer fulfils their requirements to keep things running.
But going back to my original point, you can't tell the potential of a person based upon a first impression of what you see them doing. The labourer could be capable of so much more than their position suggests. Those young adults who told me to get a proper job had no idea that I am a business owner, leafletter, postman, taxi driver, father of three, receptionist, accountant and finance officer. Never mind all the things I haven't thought of yet.
Moral of the story: don't rely on first impressions because they can fool us - often
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