Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

WHAT MY FIRST JOB TAUGHT ME ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY AND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

10 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold's first job at Idlewild Golf Club in Sudbury started with washing clubs and collecting range balls at age 13. He watched wealthy members socialize and noticed they were approachable, then took on extra work in the pro shop until he was running it, learning that successful people network and reward initiative.

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On my first student job, I was. I think I was 13 or 14 years old, and I was working at the Idlewild Golf Club up in Sudbury, Canada. And I was working in the back shop, washing golf clubs, bringing golf clubs out to members, going out to the driving range and picking up range balls. I learned that very successful people hang out with very successful people. So all of these members of the private golf club were some of the most successful people in our city. And they all knew each other because they were in a group. I also realized that they were just humans as well, that I could just walk up to these successful people and say hi, and they were talking to me and taking me seriously as I was taking them seriously. I also looked for opportunities to grow in my job. You know, I was always taking on more responsibility. I kept going up into the pro shop to help members because the manager wasn't around. Then I would be selling golf clubs and selling shirts, even though it wasn't my job. And sooner or later, I was all of a sudden running the pro shop as well, because I had taken on that responsibility and shown that initiative.