Get over your attitude of entitlement!

Not all young workers or recent grads have it, but far too many do.

They are not willing to start at the bottom, for the most part, and pay their dues to use the trite-but-true phrase.

More than that, many seem to think that anyone over 40 should just shove off and get out of their way. (Plenty of online blogs, etc. on this. If you’re over 50 or 60, they want them to just die. Period.)

Accept grunt work, learn and work as if everything you did mattered. Because it does.

All work has value and this is something that a lot of kids/recent grads don’t accept.

I’m tired of these interns who come in and want to run the company. In the meantime, they can’t even learn company policies and procedures, run a photocopier or fix a printer. Come on.

And while you have ideas and opinions, get that you are NOT going to get the same respect, response, etc. as someone who has successfully been contributing to a company. EARN your way into your job by doing it well.

If you look to the histories of the CEOs and others who have started and/or run companies, you will generally see a history of working their way up, through.

It’s not an overnight thing. So finally, BE PATIENT.

But by all means take this advice!!! Don’t get caught up in an American dream powered by debt. You’ll just get chained to the job you’re about to compete for. Live like you did in college, borrow no more money, work to be debt free first, live frugally, and then one you’ve mastered all that consider every financial decision like a well thought out business decision.

You don’t have to learn these lessons the hard way, like the rest of us.