Here is a learning experience for anyone to use even starting a job being completely deaf dumb and blind with absolutely no experience.. many decades ago , I started a labor job on a golf course . I didn’t even know how to load the string in a weed eater . The Superintendent kept telling me ai am over qualified for the job at the interview.. I told him ai want the job ! I never mentioned I needed a job hahaha ! He hired me and starting pay was 6.25 per hour . In Oder for me to push for advancement as fast as I could I collected the information needed to advance by finding out the timings and records of everything I could to learn the ropes of the operation of golf course maintenance. I collected colanders , application records that they tossed in the trash ,, made what became known as the magic book of chemical applications and any other thing imaginable to maintain a golf course while learning to operate every piece of equipment .. well low and behold within 6 months I became the Forman and approximately a year and a half a Assistant Superintendent of a high dollar private golf course . Then they Board decided to not renew the Superintendent’s contract and some real crap happened . They offered me the position . I refused as I didn’t think I was ready for that position at the time .. Well they ended up hiring in a slob from another golf course thar came in bringing most of his staff and laborers and cleaned house . I was one of the last to go because I was the one that knew all about the course and they tried to get me to tell them all the secrets hahaha , which I new was happening and I gave them NOTHING as Sergeant Schultz would apsara hahaha ! Well I went in to get my paycheck on a Friday and was informed my pay was being cut big and I was going to be demoted to labor. i told him that’s not happening . He eve tried to not pay my back vacation pay ( which I did get , 3 years worth ) and I was terminated the same day . I immediately made a phone call with a connection and told him it just happened and ai was higherd as a foremen immediately.. a slight down grade in position but the same pay . He told me he needed to approved with the top regional boss man of half the country private and resort sector for at the time was the largest Golf course management company I the world . I was approved in a few months and became the Assistant superintendent for one of the top private courses of the entire Easter sector . With in a few months I became the traveling at no notice trouble shooting Superintendent and transferred to other course that had turned into big problems and they terminated the superintendents.
One of the big things about assistant and superintendent is that both require a college degree in a related field ,, Agronomy.. min.2 years for assistant and 4 years for Superintendent.. yet ai started at the below bottom , learned very fast , advanced very fast and was accepted and higherd against the requirements .. I proved myself to top dogs and became upper management..
All in all my point is if you want something go after it hard and fast even if you don’t know the first thing about doing something. It’s all about a strong work ethic, learning mind set and wanted to enjoy success at everything you try and do … failures happen , poor decisions happen , That’s the school of hard knocks .. Just knock back harder and like the A-Team the plan sooner or later comes together !
GO FOR IT but be SMART AND HAVE A PLAN !