On Getting Fired
I have a theory that the closer you are to being an entrepreneur, the more close you’ll get to being fired. It will be tough to hold a regular job because in some way you’ll always be fighting it. And employers pick up on that sort of thing.
I don’t recall ever being fired, but it’s gotten close a few times. Sometimes I felt like I was kicking the boss over and over and then got mad when they kicked back. In other words, I wanted more flexibility and things to work in certain ways and was frustrated when that wouldn’t work for a company. I still can work for other people, but doing it full-time has lost its appeal. I so far can’t bring myself to do it. And thankfully I haven’t had to since November.
Some people reach a line of no return though. Shoemoney blogged about how many times he’s been fired. I guess when you make the kind of cash he does, you can be as brazen as you want.
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Here’s Shoemoney’s list of how many times he was fired:
Happy Joes Pizza – fired
Eagles Grocery Store – fired
Target – walked out after 2 days
Best Buy – car audio – fired
Montgomery wards – Left for Sears
Sears – Washers & dryers – Left for Internet Express
Internet Express – Quit to goto college
Internet Revealed – fired
Neo Computers – fired
First National Bank – fired
Wells Fargo Financial – fired
Commercial Federal Bank – fired
Did my own company full time.
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Working for yourself means never getting fired. What does your list look like?
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6 Responses to “On Getting Fired”
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June 11th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
After reading that I was just glad to see that you haven’t been fired
June 11th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
After reading that I was just glad to see that you haven’t been fired
June 11th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
No I haven’t. I haven’t even gotten close until I got the entrepreneurship bug. I think it’s just because I’m more passionate and driven. I don’t thrive when online marketing isn’t important to the company. Sometimes your whole job is convincing the company that online marketing is real and important. Or, the boss knows a little and thinks it’s no big deal.
Janet
June 12th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I’m glad Chris said that TWICE !!
Hope you got my last email Janet !
June 18th, 2007 at 8:32 am
[...] Newspapergrl struck a chord with a post about getting fired. It got me thinking about how many jobs I’ve had since I was 13, so I decided to follow the trail of how I came to work in public relations, or how I got a job in PR. It’s a lengthy post. [...]
November 5th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
I haven’t been fired, but I kind of knew that the things weren’t right for me, you know?