Howdy,

This week I started working at a hotel as a bellman.

If I told you what my last job was, you would think it's a step down the service industry hierarchy.

I've had a long time to find reasons not to work there, reasons to continue being unemployed. Most of them came from my ego.

"I'm better than that." "It's going to distract me from my podcast and my writing." "It's too far away from my apartment." "I'm not going to make enough money doing that."

It all boiled down to: "I don't want to put in the work again because I feel like I shouldn't have to."

And that's bullshit.

When I moved to Austin, my first job was in a food truck. Every night, around 4 in the morning, when we closed, I was the one that emptied out the waste water.

If you don't know what waste water is, go take a shit and then smell it.

I was literally emptying out buckets of shit water. But I emptied them better than everyone else in that food truck.

A couple years later I got to work at one of the top 5 food trucks in Austin. And I no longer had to empty waste water.

In the past, my ego has only gotten me in troublesome situations. It's humility that has shown me I have to put in the work if I want to see the result.

In the words of Randy Pausch...

"No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom. And when you get there, here's what you do: be really great at sorting mail."

Regards,

Nick

(8/28 Writing Prompt): Write about a time in your life that you made a decision out of humility and about a time that your ego made the decision for you. Then compare the two and write down 2 lessons you learned from doing so.