Codie Sanchez recalls her manager at Goldman Sachs telling her to arrive early and stay late. She followed that one instruction for a year and got promoted faster with higher pay.
My favorite frameworks from Goldman is they have a couple different levels of humans, but when you're an analyst, you're doing everything. No is not in your vocabulary at that level. And I had a boss who was very intense, former military, and he came in one day and gave me a few minutes, and he doesn't usually give anybody a few minutes. That's very rare. Said, I'm new, I don't have a crazy background. I didn't go to Cambridge or whatever. You're sort of similar. You seem like you really pulled up yourself by your bootstraps. Two or three things that you think I could do in the first 30 days to differentiate myself, anything. And he was like, no, it's one thing. Be here earlier, stay later, that's it. And I was like, like, really? Okay. So I just did that for a year. I was just in before anybody else, and I stayed later than anybody else, and I got promoted faster than anybody else, and I made more money faster than anybody else. And so what I liked about Goldman is they told you. And it was just like, how much pain can you tolerate? And that tolerating pain for a period up front led to a lifetime of, now I don't have to tolerate much pain at all. I have a full staff. I get to hang out a lot. It's unbelievable that we make money doing this. And that was because I took a lot of pain early.
He wouldn't give you the dream if he didn't believe you had what it takes. You have what it takes.
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