Nick Hutchison's mentor told him to choose sales over hourly work, using grocery bagging as an example: you can't earn more by bagging faster. The difference between poverty math and wealthy math comes down to picking a system where your effort compounds instead of capping out at a raise.
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When I was graduating college, I was analyzing different career opportunities. I was still in the mindset that I needed to work for somebody else. I wasn't really an aspiring entrepreneur yet, but thankfully somebody tapped me on the shoulder basically and said, if you were bagging groceries, right, there's 2 registers going, you're bagging twice as fast as the person next to you, you're still getting paid the same because you're getting paid hourly. So they recommended that I go into sales. We talked about the importance of selling earlier because If you sell twice as much as the person next to you, you're rewarded twice as much.
That's very much a reflection of poverty math versus wealthy math, is leveraging your effort and brilliant effort instead of getting just a measly raise. You're, you're like, oh my God, I can pay off my mother's mortgage. I can do this. I can do that. It's the system you are putting yourself— what box are you putting yourself into with this particular job, career, or business?