How I discovered the consulting business
At the age of nineteen I was working at a telemarketing company, managing three hundred telephone sales reps, one trainer and three conversation monitors. As it turned out, my boss, who owned the company, liked a girl who liked me. Let’s just say my employment didn’t last long.
I then found a job with a recruiting agency. My new boss was a family friend, and as they say, familiarity doesn’t always work well in the work force. Because my new boss and I were very close, he didn’t feel compelled to teach me a whole lot. So my training involved him tossing a book at me and saying, “Here is a book of companies that all use an AS/400 as there computer system.” He then tossed a resume at me and said, “Here is a resume of a good AS/400 guy. Call the companies in that book and sell them this guy.”
