What is working hard? Putting long hours in at your dead-end job may be hard work, but is not working hard.
Working hard is doing things outside of work in order to create opportunities. School, networking, learning. Working hard is sacrificing by saving your money, not blowing it. Making good choices. Hanging around positive people.
Working hard is also being honest and not making excuses. I have a young child and use that as an excuse for not going back to college. Plenty of people finish their degree and have more kids at home than I do. I just don’t prioritize it as much. So I don’t have a right to complain when I get rejected from a job for not having a degree. I have had twenty years to get one, instead I chose to do other things.
Working hard is doing things outside of work in order to create opportunities. School, networking, learning. Working hard is sacrificing by saving your money, not blowing it. Making good choices. Hanging around positive people.
Working hard is also being honest and not making excuses. I have a young child and use that as an excuse for not going back to college. Plenty of people finish their degree and have more kids at home than I do. I just don’t prioritize it as much. So I don’t have a right to complain when I get rejected from a job for not having a degree. I have had twenty years to get one, instead I chose to do other things.