Thinking About Success

1. Skill

2. Opportunity

3. Luck

4. Hard Work

 

         Normally, I would rank this list in a completely different order. It would probably go in the order of hard work, skill, opportunity, and then luck. Well, today I'm here to throw out that happy go lucky, rose colored glasses gal, and tell the blunt, unfortunate truth that is our society.

         I ranked the first one skill, because if you don't have at least a basic skill set, then you have nothing. When people are looking to hire you, it doesn't matter if you swear on your mothers grave that you will work harder than anyone else on the whole entire planet, because people can't make money on your promises and swears. I mean, don't get me wrong, hard work is awesome, and very important, but people will always go for the more qualified person. And I guarantee there are thousands of people that will work just as hard as the next guy, but working hard doesn't mean jack squat when you don't even have the proper skill set to even do your job.

The second one in this list is opportunity. I had some trouble deciding whether to put opportunity or luck in second, but in the end it really fell to opportunity. It's very hard to get started in the 'business world' if you don't have any opportunities. In America, we make it seem like it's very easy to climb the social ladder from low class to middle class to high class. The reality is that it is not. The wonder that is America is that if you were born into a low class family, it is likely that you will die in it too. If you lack opportunities, you will never grow. If you don't know the right people you are doomed to be stuck forever.

didn't have time to finish this. perhaps later. I got kinda into it.