Mike Phillips
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- Dec 5, 2022
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Do you want to have a career in the car industry?
I was posting a reply to this article and as I often do, I took a portion of what I wrote and turned it into it's own article with the goal of hoping to help and encourage others, and maybe even inspire others.
I have a dream job in that I'm always amazed and thankful to have because often it can be so difficult to find work that is also related to your passion or hobby. Over the years I've often had fellow car enthusiasts say something like,
"I wish I had your job"
And I relate to these sentiments because I've had a lot of jobs in my life and I haven't always loved or even liked some of these other jobs. So here's some friendly advice for anyone that would like to work in the car industry in any of it's segments, and for that matter, any industry...
Follow your passion...
For anyone reading this that would like to work in the car industry, there's nothing stopping you... find a niche area that excites you and you feel passionate about and start working at it.
Study and become an expert at one thing
Become and expert on the subject by studying it and doing it. Just like the Nike slogan... Just do it! Start writing articles and publishing them and posting them to the Internet. Start a blog or your own website where you can post and control your content.
Keep it professional
Remember that your posting history will always reflect on your professionalism, so make sure you present yourself in your writing, (which is your online personality), in a professional manner, it's really pretty easy to do, find a way to help others, stay positive, never go negative, and then the basics, good grammar, spelling, formatting, etc.
Learn how to work with pictures
Learn how to take good pictures and then learn how to crop out the fluff, resize to 800 pixels wide and upload to a "permanent" address on the Internet and then insert them in a way that your audience can easily see them.
Never give up...
If you want something bad enough, you can find a way to make it your reality but you have to work at it and that usually means you have to pay your dues...
It's all to easy to see a brand new band come out with a hit song and think they're an overnight success and while they might be an overnight success what you don't see is the years of practicing in a garage and playing at diver bars and venues that no one outside of small, sleepy town knows about.
So never give up and don't become discouraged if you makes mistakes. We all make mistakes, the goal is to learn from your mistakes and then do your best to avoid repeating a mistake. Also, try to learn from from other's mistakes. There's an old saying that I'm very fond of and it's also very true, it's a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt,
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself"
I know what's its like to have a job you don't like and I know what it's like to have a job you love and it's a lot more fun to get out of bed each morning when you love your work.
I was posting a reply to this article and as I often do, I took a portion of what I wrote and turned it into it's own article with the goal of hoping to help and encourage others, and maybe even inspire others.
I have a dream job in that I'm always amazed and thankful to have because often it can be so difficult to find work that is also related to your passion or hobby. Over the years I've often had fellow car enthusiasts say something like,
"I wish I had your job"
And I relate to these sentiments because I've had a lot of jobs in my life and I haven't always loved or even liked some of these other jobs. So here's some friendly advice for anyone that would like to work in the car industry in any of it's segments, and for that matter, any industry...
Follow your passion...
For anyone reading this that would like to work in the car industry, there's nothing stopping you... find a niche area that excites you and you feel passionate about and start working at it.
Study and become an expert at one thing
Become and expert on the subject by studying it and doing it. Just like the Nike slogan... Just do it! Start writing articles and publishing them and posting them to the Internet. Start a blog or your own website where you can post and control your content.
Keep it professional
Remember that your posting history will always reflect on your professionalism, so make sure you present yourself in your writing, (which is your online personality), in a professional manner, it's really pretty easy to do, find a way to help others, stay positive, never go negative, and then the basics, good grammar, spelling, formatting, etc.
Learn how to work with pictures
Learn how to take good pictures and then learn how to crop out the fluff, resize to 800 pixels wide and upload to a "permanent" address on the Internet and then insert them in a way that your audience can easily see them.
Never give up...
If you want something bad enough, you can find a way to make it your reality but you have to work at it and that usually means you have to pay your dues...
It's all to easy to see a brand new band come out with a hit song and think they're an overnight success and while they might be an overnight success what you don't see is the years of practicing in a garage and playing at diver bars and venues that no one outside of small, sleepy town knows about.
So never give up and don't become discouraged if you makes mistakes. We all make mistakes, the goal is to learn from your mistakes and then do your best to avoid repeating a mistake. Also, try to learn from from other's mistakes. There's an old saying that I'm very fond of and it's also very true, it's a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt,
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself"
I know what's its like to have a job you don't like and I know what it's like to have a job you love and it's a lot more fun to get out of bed each morning when you love your work.
