God helps those who help themselves.
-Benjamin Franklin
If I didn't already have a job, I would go do this. (Emphasis mine)
We've decided to start a recruiting program to bring in computer science folks out of school (or still in school and looking to drop out) so they can learn from these old Jedi....
We're not looking for specific skills sets, but rather personality types: positive, hard working, considered, and who believe in doing not trying.
Not because I'm a huge fan of Mahalo (which I think is some type of index for hawaiian pineapple farming) and not because I'm a huge Jason Calacanis fan (I do read his blog). I'd go work there because they're onto the Right Thing. It's not about how much you know or how smart you are. It's not even about what skills you have, skills can be taught. The only thing that matters is how hard you're willing to work, everything else is just noise.
All day I'm surrounded by smart people. Smart lazy people. Smart lazy people who do what they need to do to get by and not much else. They go to class, get the grades, work part time jobs but that's all they're doing. They are the next generation of the fattened middle. They're the ones with the degrees who don't remember much of what they were taught. They're your boss when you're an intern with cookie cutter lives in cookie cutter houses and cookie cutter children and well, I think you can see where I'm going with this. They're the ones who like to talk about what "could have been" if they'd only "gotten a break."
That job posting above, that's a break. That's a chance. Maybe the job sucks, maybe their team sucks, maybe you're there a week and you quit or get fired. You never know until you try. Most people never try.
Posted by Ben Corman at 5:24 PM