Ben Carlson

So yeah, you're right.

Even if you can't like plan out your career advice to a T, like I'm going to go down this path and I'm going to get this job and this, you know, yeah, I think being indispensable and just being a person that can be relied on.

And I think just solving people's problems.

We hired a guy in the last year or so at our firm who came to us and said, I can make the best charts for you.

I sent us a chart book.

He said, here, check out this chart book.

And we were just in the process of overhauling our presentations, kind of saying, we need to make this look better.

He says, here, let me do it for you.

And we didn't even look for it.

He became indispensable to us because he was doing something that we couldn't do better.

And he could do it better than we could.

And now he's part of the firm.

We hired him on as like a temp at first.

And he became so good that we couldn't let him go.

So I think that's the kind of thing that matters is just solving people's problems and making their life easier.

Because people aren't going to necessarily go out of their way to be a mentor to you.

Sometimes you have to make your own way and figure it out.

And I think that's the point as a young person.

Thanks for having me.