{"id":11755,"date":"2010-04-12T11:36:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11755"},"modified":"2010-04-12T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:42:13","slug":"on-work-busywork-hard-work-and-how-to-tell-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11755\/on-work-busywork-hard-work-and-how-to-tell-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"On work, busywork, hard work, and how to tell the difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

A revelation: At this moment in time, my business is exactly where I want it to be. Is that weird? I don’t think so, as I’m getting exactly the business I’ve earned. That’s not to say it’s the business that would make you happy, and it’s not to say it’s the business I want in six months or six years, even six weeks from now, but today, when I stopped to think about it, my business is in direct proportion to the amount of work I’ve put into it.<\/p>\n

I’ve been busy over the past few years, but I haven’t always been busy on work. Some of that is my own fault, I’ll own that, I always have owned that, but the fact remains that the business I’m getting is exactly proportional to whatever I put into it, and that’s the good news for the day, because I know that whatever I put in, I’m going to get out.<\/p>\n

I haven’t talked about my dad in a long while<\/a>, but everything I know about work, I learned from him. I think you’d like my dad- he’s a Bloodhound. He grew up in a hardscrabble part of town, in a Catholic orphanage where the nuns let him be as much as they could. He is a kinesthetic learner. He’s one of the smartest people I’ve ever known, but not in a bookish way. He can teach himself any sort of thing, but only if he does it and the nuns allowed him to follow the plumbers, the maintenance people, the doers, around. He’d ask them questions about what they were doing and hand them tools when they asked. Other kids were off playing pick up games or getting into neighborhood fights, Dad was learning, always learning stuff.<\/p>\n

When he had a family to support, Dad became a salesman which allowed him to get out and talk to people. A desk job? No thanks. My dad needed to live unchained, so he headed out- an independent sales rep for tool manufacturers. It wasn’t an easy life for him, but he was used to that. He loved Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At this moment in time, my business is exactly where I want it to be. Is that weird? I don’t think so, as I’m getting exactly the business I’ve earned. That’s not to say it’s the business that would make you happy, and it’s not to say it’s the business I want in six months or six years, even six weeks from now, but when I stopped to think about it, my business is in direct proportion to the amount of work I’ve put into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9510,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9510\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-friends-in-loan-places%e2%80%a6\/","url_meta":{"origin":11755,"position":0},"title":"I\u2019ve got friends in Loan Places\u2026","author":"Jessica Horton","date":"August 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Announcer: Don\u2019t touch that dial! 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