Will work for [insert motivation here]
September 19, 2008
So, I sent the following message via MySpace to my 17-year-old niece:
So I was thinking … you should think about doing an internship next summer. You could stay with us and work in the city…
She replies:
naw i don’t want 2 do anything i’m not gettin paid for and a intership for what??? like on what???? but tha coming down there and stayin of course!!!(LOL) but newayzwhat colleges are up there???
This from a chick who claims to want to study pediatrics, but doesn’t want to wear latex gloves because “they’re not cute.” She also says she wants to be married with a child by age 24—where she picked THAT jewel up, I don’t know.
Robert Kiyosaki said that if you want to be successful, especially at your own business, you have to be willing to work for free. Money and success don’t just materialize out of thin air (no matter what hip-hop tells us), and sometimes I think that my nieces and nephews don’t realize what the generation before them (particularly their parents, aunts and uncles) went through to get what little they have today. I wonder where I’d be now if I hadn’t taken the leap of faith and went to college, knowing damn well I didn’t have the money to pay for it, or worked an UNPAID internship on Capitol Hill, or worked for an ABC affiliate for just pennies a day. If this generation doesn’t work hard and pay its dues now, will they miss out on their potential in the future?
