Here's How I Did It!

My partner, Phil Basten and I, have a wonderful and successful online Advertising business.
We started our business 14 years ago and built it from a tiny, unknown company to one that has taken in multiple 7 figures over the years. We were able to do this because I never had a job.
Yes. It’s true. I never really had a job and that made all the difference.
The Bloomingdales Factor...
I hate working for someone else. I decided, at the tender age of 17, to never work for anyone else again.
I came to that conclusion after a terrible week of work at a well-known New York City store called Bloomingdales.
The work turned out to be the stuff of fools and I quickly decided that there had to be a better way to earn money than to "suffer fools gladly."
Bloomingdales is an upscale department store in New York City and a job there was considered classy.
I got my job at Bloomingdales the good old-fashioned way through nepotism. A family member owned the store.
I needed a summer job and so the owner of the store pulled some strings for me.
There I was bright eyed and bushy tailed- ready to give my all to Bloomingdales and become the best summer employee the store had ever known.
My first day, they put me on the main floor in watches. I learned everything there was to know about watches and by the end of day 1, I knew my citizen brands from my Anne Klein’s. I found out what the best sellers were for men and women and I showed those best sellers to anybody walking by who would listen.
I became an instant expert on watches of all kinds and by noon I had actually sold quite a few. I rocked up the next morning ready to outsell everyone on the first floor of Bloomingdales, and then... some dour looking lady with a pinched mouth and a perpetual scowl took me by the arm and said: "We are sending you to Men's jackets on floor 7 today."
"But I don’t know anything about Men's jackets", I proclaimed perhaps a bit more loudly than I should.
"You will learn", said the dour looking lady from personnel and off I went.