Episode 2 - My First Gig in Tech - Building Tenacity
The year is 1998 and walked into the superintendent’s office of a small school in Maine with zero experience, zero IT education, but a lot of ambition and tenacity. I recently heard someone in sales use the acronym CAT, character, ambition, and talent. Well, in my opinion talent has to be developed. Yes, you can have RAW talent… but skills need to be learned and honed.
Theonlinerocket.com has this quote online: "To be tenacious, requires one to be exemplary, to want to better him or herself. Granted, ambition does falter, and lives become busy, but tenacious people manage to weather the gauntlet of responsibility and take the hits as they come."
And that’s what I did, weather the gauntlet. Here’s the story.