I get it, and I am by no means making light of your experience. Work experience is obviously important, because it builds a solid work ethic. Your learned work ethic is invaluable. What I was referring to is actual relevant work experience, although you did have "work experience", it wasn't really relevant to leveraging said experience into more money, e.g., I'd hire a guy with 2 years of relevant experience for more money than a guy with 10 years of "work experience".I worked my way from golf club cleaner and golf-ball-picker-upper and dishwasher to be a lead/shift server/bartender at a 4 diamond resort. I worked full time in high school and then double full time (2-3 jobs) over the summer breaks, including everything from cleaning grease traps to construction. I would get my **** done appropriately, and learned quickly, I didn't cause a lot of drama, I was reliable in attendance and performance. I was tasked with helping out some very high level people and did a solid job, which certainly lead to other things. I made some money, renovated homes, and banged a pretty significant number of waitresses (and a few restaurant patrons) along the way.
That work ethic and experience helped me get where I am today. I'm one of the few I know that worked 40+ hours a week on top of college (pre-med) and med school, graduated everything on time or early, worked 4-6 jobs as needed to get the ball rolling, and set myself up pretty good from the effort.
Now I'm actually rewarded for what I know instead of swinging a hammer, which is good cause I'm not 24 anymore. I think one of the issues is people want to live like I do at 40 without doing the work from 15-40 to get there. There's no job I won't ask a subordinate to do anything I'm not willing to do myself, and on the tough days I'm still the first in, last out, and usually bring donuts for the crew.
That’s important if you are hiring for a maid
