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Watched a coworker go from $16/hr to salary in 10 weeks after one small shift
My buddy Rick was stuck at $16/hr doing oil changes at a shop outside Nashville. He started asking the service writers if he could sit in on their calls during his lunch break, just to learn how they priced jobs. Within 10 weeks he was writing his own tickets and the owner moved him to salary plus spiffs. The only thing that changed was he stopped waiting for someone to train him and just started learning next to them. If you're in a dead-end role, what's one thing you could start learning on your lunch break?
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xena_allen18d ago
Read a thing a while back about a guy who learned to code just by watching YouTube on his lunch break every day for like a year. No bootcamp, no fancy degree, just ate his sandwich and watched videos and typed along. He ended up getting a junior dev job at some small company. Point is, people act like you need permission or a whole plan to start learning something. Rick just sat near the service writers and listened. That is it. You do not need a class, you need to stop scrolling your phone for 30 minutes and pay attention to the people doing the job you want.
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