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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If we are not intentional, it is so easy for our dream to become a job that we hate, |
| 0:11.4 | and a task that we loathe, a chore that we can endure no more. |
| 0:17.3 | I remember when I first had the dream of starting DJ Connection.com. |
| 0:22.6 | Out of my college dorm room at Oral Roberts University. |
| 0:25.6 | I was so excited to start my own company to work for myself. |
| 0:30.6 | In fact, I was willing to work at three different companies simultaneously to start that company. |
| 0:35.6 | Target, Applebee, and DirecTV. My wife worked at Office Depot in Earl Roberts University. |
| 0:41.3 | We lived without air conditioning. We shared one car. We lived in a small apartment. We did whatever it took to build that business. |
| 0:50.3 | But at a certain point, I realized, oh man, I'm DJing nearly 200 shows per year, and this is a job that I don't want. |
| 0:59.0 | But yet, I worked for myself. |
| 1:01.0 | How did this happen? |
| 1:02.0 | I'm booked out for the next year and a half. |
| 1:04.0 | How did this happen? |
| 1:06.0 | My life is filled with obligations. |
| 1:08.0 | How did this happen? |
| 1:10.0 | I don't even like the people who work in my office. |
| 1:12.6 | I can't stand any of these people. |
| 1:14.6 | How did it happen? |
| 1:16.6 | How did I create a culture that I didn't like? |
| 1:19.6 | What weeds did I not pull? |
| 1:21.6 | What people did I not fire? |
| 1:23.6 | How can I have allowed myself to create a company that I no longer like? |
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