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I AM AN OLD NOBODY AND I LOVE WHAT I DO
I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.
I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.
Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.
I'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do.
True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.
There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.
He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.
All my life I have been a nomad.
There is no higher calling than the service of your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few.
It is a rare person who is naturally inclined to sit still for sixteen years in school, and then indefinitely at work, yet with the dismantling of high school shop programs
Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
I'm the new age miner,
going to work at the company's
gold mines, where they charge me
for the pick axe
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
[A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]
A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins.
I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.
I'm a job creator.
I'm a complete and utter busker.
If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.
We're all drifters here, embarked on an aimless journey
I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.
The more experienced you are, the better off you are.
We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.
SALES SPECIALIST. CAN EAT BITTERNESS AND ENDURE HARDSHIP.
I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence
I'm just another guy starting out.
I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained.
Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?"
"Crazy?
I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work.
I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.
I've worked in so many areas
I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.
A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.
Being a "promising beginner" is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying.
No matter what you have, no matter your experience level, sometimes you just need a hand.
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.
Beginners are many; finishers are few.
No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.
If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.
I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.
Well, what is my job now?".
My entire career, I've been a worker.
I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.
I have had no professional training.
I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.
The store customer, who comes home with a package under his arm has learned nothing, except that a ten dollar bill is a source of power in the market place. The man or woman who has converted material into needed products via tools and skills has matured in the process.
First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.
We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.
Why had I entered this profession? I could have gone in for something easier and gentler - like coalmining or lumberjacking.
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?
The world is changing at such a rapid rate that it's turning us all into amateurs. Even for professionals, the best way to flourish is to retain an amateur's spirit and embrace uncertainty and the unknown.
I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.
My journey is technical complexity.
I'm a trackstar running through life, chasing my dream50 Cent
I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.
It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.
Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.
Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
I'm still learning my craft.
One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
Today, the lines between mentoring and networking are blurring. Welcome to the world of mentworking.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Nah. I'm a consultant, of course. Everyone's favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations ... I have built my own factory on my own ground.
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
Cashier." Turnover
You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.
One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.
I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.
One becomes a beginner after one thousand days of training and an expert after ten thousand days of practice.
A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise.
You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.