You Need to Be Self-Managing and Responsible

Several years ago our company was operating in downtown Los Angeles. At less than a year old, the company was very small at the time; however, the people I was working with were nothing short of extraordinary:

• I had one computer programmer who had gone to Columbia Law School and had come to work with me after deciding that he did not want to practice law.
• I had a girl who had graduated at the top of her class at Boston University Law School and decided that she did not want to practice law.
• I had another guy who had gotten a perfect score on his LSATs and a perfect grade point average. He was working for me a few years before deciding which law school to attend. They all ended up offering him scholarships.
• I had a guy who was extremely intelligent and hardworking, who had gone to law school with his wife, and ultimately decided against working in a law firm. He had followed his wife out to Los Angeles while she took a job practicing law.

One guy might come in at 5:00 am and work until 4:00 pm and then work from home later in the evening. Another guy might come [Read more]