278: Freestyle Friday | My Advice for 20 Year Olds

Overview

You should be creating and releasing some sort of content no matter what business you’re in. In this Freestyle Friday episode of Build Your Network, the only business networking podcast on iTunes, your host Travis Chappel talks about how

 

Episode Highlights:

  • Get a job – learn something and start earning some money.
  • Get a job with these qualifications:
  • Earn while you learn.
  • Work for someone you admire.
  • Try a lot of things – industries, jobs, professions.
  • Don’t spend money on things.
  • Spend money on learning and invest in experiences.
  • Things depreciate and then you’ve wasted your money.
  • Get better at communication.
  • Do door to door, telemarketing, or network marketing.
  • You’ll get great at reading body language.
  • Get out there, don’t be afraid to fail.

 

3 Key Points:

  1. If you can earn while you learn then you can have a leg up on everyone coming out of college with crushing debt.
  2. A job isn’t necessarily a bad thing, you just need to apply a few qualifications.
  3. Save to invest, don’t save to spend.

 

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “Don’t underestimate the value of having a job.” -Travis
  • “It’s incredible to me that we expect high schoolers to know what they want to do with their lives when most adults don’t.” -Travis
  • “Door to door, telemarketing, and network marketing will help your communication skills go through the roof.” -Travis

 

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