You will not get where you want to be as quickly as you want but in the meantime don’t sleep on those skills you are getting along the way.
Some of the skills are
Keeping Time
When you are looking for a job especially with zero work experience, the options are very limited. The first job you may get maybe a cashier, a receptionist, security guard or a server. And you will be shocked at how demanding it can be. However, as you need the money to buy food, clothes or maybe pay rent. You will stick it.
If you stick it, you will find that other things begin to stick too like getting up on time, being at your work place on time and being present for the duration of the job.
Time management is a skill that you will cultivate and it will serve you well in the future.
Communicating
In many jobs that require being around people, communication is vital. Good communication skills and understanding that the customer is always right, even when they’re wrong is a great skill to have. And when you are young, it can be extremely hard to be polite to people that expect you to be at their beck and call and are rude about it.
Do not make the mistake of answering back and getting into a verbal battle. After a while and with some intervention form your boss or supervisor, you will become better at avoiding confrontations. And, you will learn to give an appropriate and acceptable response.
Eventually, you will not have customers yelling at you because you communicate better and your customer service is better. This very critical skills that you will get to cultivate on the job can and will help in other other work places later on in life.
You will not stay where you are, you will move form one setting to another in your own business or the corporate world.
Listening
Apart from the difficult customer you may end up with a difficult supervisor, boss or co-worker. Not everybody can be nice all the time, but some people are just very difficult.
Some, nothing will please them or everything you do will have some fault. Chin up and dig in and do not take it personally. Just listen. It is much more important for you to listen so that you a better job.
At the end of the day, if you just listen through the avalanche of criticism you will come away with the important bit and that is what not to do.
It makes no sense to let their words get to you, especially because that will probably lead to more mistakes. Just be open to good advice, and leave the rest.
And remember, in any job, you have to be ready to adjust to changes because they will come some good some bad, but, these things will push you towards developing skills that are genuinely useful no matter where you’re heading in life.
