How Working In A Factory Has Helped Develop My Business

It’s almost Thanks­giv­ing here, so I thought it would be a good time to think about what I’m thank­ful for. Things that have helped me develop and learn the skills I need to make a liv­ing online. I find that you learn a lot from the most unex­pected sources. One of those sources, for me, has been from work­ing in a factory.

It doesn’t seem like work­ing in a fac­tory can give you lessons for life and work­ing online. And while what I have done work­ing a fac­tory doesn’t directly relate to run­ning and online busi­ness and mar­ket­ing, I have taken a few things from that do relate.

Orga­ni­za­tion — At this fac­tory there are all kinds of dif­fer­ent jobs with dif­fer­ent parts and dif­fer­ent ways of doing things. The point is to run the machine and keep up with each cycle. The machine makes the parts, you do what you need to do to each part, then put them in a con­tainer for their next destination.

This would be done over and over till the day was done. Some jobs are harder then oth­ers, and that is where I learned how to stay orga­nized. There were dif­fer­ent tools to use and labels to put on the con­tain­ers. Paper­work to keep track of your progress through­out the day. All this while mak­ing sure you catch the next cycle of the machine.

If you weren’t orga­nized, it wouldn’t be dif­fi­cult to fall behind. I learned a lot of lit­tle tricks and short­cuts that made the job much eas­ier. Both on my own and from other peo­ple. I brought this skill over to my work online and have a ten­dency to keep things orga­nized so that it runs smoothly.

Rou­tines — Work­ing every day at a fac­tory and doing the same thing all day long helped me learn how to deal with rou­tines. You had to get used to doing the same thing over and over all day long (some­times over sev­eral days at a time). While it was very monot­o­nous and bor­ing at times I devel­oped a lot more patience and perseverance.

Mak­ing money online, just like run­ning a reg­u­lar busi­ness, takes time to develop and grow. It takes a lot of work­ing on the same thing for awhile to get things mov­ing. There are cer­tain tasks that must be done every day. Work­ing in a fac­tory and doing the same thing all day long, taught me a lot of patience in that respect. I know it will pay off even­tu­ally so I keep at it.

Moti­va­tion — If work­ing in a fac­tory, doing the same thing all day, sounds bor­ing, it is. After awhile you can pretty much do things in your sleep if you wanted to. Sim­ply from the fact that your so used to doing it, you don’t even have to think about it.

But in a round­about way, I’m thank­ful for that too. Per­son­ally I can’t stand the idea of doing that every­day for the rest of my life. Espe­cially with a cap on my pay that, quite frankly, is too low for my grow­ing fam­ily. I also knew that I wanted to make some­thing of myself. And that was never going to hap­pen in a factory.

So, in a way, it was and still is a moti­va­tor for me to make a liv­ing by other means. To make some­thing great of myself. Not work­ing in a fac­tory all my life.

These are the big things I’ve learned and devel­oped from work­ing in a fac­tory. And I must say, some peo­ple like man­ual labor, but I don’t per­son­ally. It’s just not my thing. I’m a dreamer and wish for big things in my life.

With all due respect to peo­ple that stick with a typ­i­cal job, it’s just some­thing I don’t want to do myself. Not my whole life. I’m just amazed that some of the peo­ple work­ing there have been at that place all their lives prac­ti­cally. That’s just crazy to me.

So in cel­e­bra­tion of Thanks­giv­ing, I want to thank my time work­ing in a fac­tory. Although it’s not very sim­i­lar to work­ing online and mar­ket­ing, I’ve learned some things that I can use for my online ven­tures and achiev­ing my dreams.

~Chris

You would be sur­prised what you can learn from things that don’t seem to relate to work­ing online. What have you learned from things that seem to have noth­ing to do with marketing?

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