If you're going to build something from nothing, you've got to know what really works.

I took a thousand dollar loan and built a five billion dollar business, and now I make smart investments in new businesses on Shark Tank. This is Barbara

Corcoran and you're listening to Business Unusual presented by On Deck Business

Loans. This week on Business Un unusual I'm going to be answering all of the

great questions you guys keep sending me in on business life how to move forward how to

jump over obstacles come on I'm good at it and I want to share my advice. But first

I've gotten a lot of emails at the tail end of the year for folks who are fired from

the jobs at your end.

And I can tell you that most of them are frustrated,

depressed, and looking for some advice.

So I thought I would pause right here

and give a little bit of advice

because I happen to be one of those

people that is really good at getting fired. I had 22 jobs and was fired from

three of them and I can tell you the jobs that I learned the absolute most from were the ones that fired me.

Go figure.

Let me tell you about the three jobs I was fired from and how they turned out to be probably the best lessons in my life

that pushed me forward. One job I was a clerk at a hospital. Picture this.

Third floor, no windows, eight hours a day. My job was to take the

temperatures from the bed charts of each patient in the hospital and post the temperatures that they took every three hours.

Now, it's a pretty easy job, boring as could be, but I had to transfer those numbers from

one chart to a bigger chart, not the most fulfilling job in the world.

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