Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

Proving my Dad wrong was my biggest motivation.

Name: Proving my Dad wrong was my biggest motivation.
Uploaded: 2024-11-13T17:00:59+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this personal vlog, the speaker recounts a journey that began with a lazy attitude toward school and a dead‑end sales job. His father constantly…

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In this personal vlog, the speaker recounts a journey that began with a lazy attitude toward school and a dead‑end sales job. His father constantly warned him that he would never succeed without change. Motivated not by money or status but by a desire to prove his dad wrong, the speaker switched to a recruitment role after seeing headlines about the field. Despite his father's skepticism that he wouldn't last six months, he persisted, earned a substantial commission, and placed the check on his father's desk, earning a tentative acknowledgment. Over the next decade, he built a successful recruiting career, culminating in his father planning a visit to Austin and expressing genuine pride. The narrative highlights themes of personal motivation, parental influence, career pivot, and the emotional payoff of validation.

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Throughout my whole schooling career, I was pretty lazy, uh, and I kind of took that into the workplace. I ended up in a dead-end sales job. My dad throughout the whole time was basically moaning about how I would never be a success if I didn't change my life. Um, and so the following day I looked online and saw the big headlines of recruitment, and so I said, right, Dad, I'm gonna apply for a recruitment job. And he said, you won't last 6 months. That was my why. It wasn't money, it wasn't success, it wasn't status, it was proving my dad wrong. But when I got my first big commission check, I put it on his desk and he said, okay, yeah, you're getting there. And then 10 years later, finally, he's coming to Austin in a couple of weeks. And, and he said he's very proud of me. So I kind of ticked that off. Nice. Yeah. And that feels good. Feels good.