Bill Perkins
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And my roommate at the time was a waiter.
And he was making like $77,000 a year.
And I was thinking, I can always wait tables.
But I wasn't in it for the $16,000, right?
I was in it for a career path to really make a bunch of money.
And so that's a kind of weird thing.
And I was just kind of like, if I lose my ego, which I had no ego back then.
I was driving a limo at night.
I was like, if I lose my ego, I can always get a job.
I can always get a job.
I'm not going to be completely busted, right?
I might be poor and I've been broke before and I'm okay with that.
And I've had great times, right?
Like, you know, I'm good friends.
We go off, do whatever.
But it gave me kind of this freedom.
Like there's this safety net of like, I will be able to find something.
Right?
I remember one of the FCMs, I worked for this guy named Mark, and he was like, I used to be a garbage driver.
If they shut this place down, I can always drive a garbage truck.