(Image Credit – Yes, I LOVE Cs NOW!)

Well, I am really sick tonight and can’t go to sleep even after taking bunch of tylenols.

So, here it goes, story of my life and why getting C average in college will get you ahead.

My father, who is a well-respected international businessman (something I can’t call myself yet…), told me before I went to college, “Son, just get Cs, you don’t need to get As, just graduate!” (It’s also ironic and interesting to note that my dad graduated as a valedictorian at the top of his class in college with all As in every class he took.  Now that is an unbelievably believable advice.)

And low and behold, I partied most of my college days and passed most of my classes with a slightly above C average.  (I know very few people who got worse grades than me in college, I don’t think they even add up to one….arrrr…)

At the time, I felt worthless, other college students were getting As while I slacked off and barely passed.  One time, I failed a class because I slept too much.

Well, that’s not all of bad things, I did do pretty good on classes that I “liked”, I passed them with As, some without even reading the textbook because I knew it already.  (That such class was C programming class, something I had started learning since I was 9.)

So, what did I even learn from my dad’s advice and my failures to achieve perfection in college?

That to be a businessman, you actually don’t want to be good at anything.

Even now, I honestly admit that the only thing I am really good at is golf.

I do have skills in graphic design and designing websites but nothing compared to the best in the world.

I do have skills to hack/manage web servers but nothing compared to the best linux hackers in the world.

I do have skills to learn new programming languages on the go like PHP, MySQL, C++, or whatever but I am nothing compared to the best programmers in the world.

I do have skills to barely manage my company’s finanaces but nothing compared to a professional accountant.

In the end, yes, I really suck at everything and probably get Cs in all those skills mentioned above. (except golf…hehe)

But what I am really good at since I was young, was the ability to put things together such as puzzles, presentations, and whatnot.  I could take parts from the garbage and make it into something cool.

Well, if you add up all those sucky skills I mentioned above, you get the ability to run a blogging business very very effciently by cutting down on most of overhead costs including web design/web site management/creation oof new websites.

I don’t even know how I even ended up where I am but I know one thing, all those sucky skills can make up a whole lot more than if I did graduate college with As in all my classes.  (I bet I’d still be working like a slave if I got As in my classes because I’d be too smart and I am sure some big name company such as HP would love to hire me for 30+ years as their slave programmer/workload processor.)

Anyways, my advice to any college students out there and people with teenagers,

“Son/Daughter, just get Cs in college, you will just be fine.”

Yes, I do suck at everything I do but that is the secret to running a blogging business.  If you had a bit of skills in everything, that is always better than being good only at one thing.

Well, there’s goes me rambling again… but it’s true, being mediocre can make you a winner.

Okay, final advice, “Use your strengths and put something together”.  This doesn’t have to be just blogging business, it could be anything.  Perhaps you have some skills in customer service, logistics, and cooking.  Why don’t you try opening some kind of food franchise?

The point is, making money can be fun and easy if you adapt yourr skills to it, not the other way around.

First, enjoy life, relax, and everything will fall through. 

Good luck my friends.  Well, I am still trying, not there yet. Blogging, c average, c programming, college days, college students, designing websites, finanaces, graphic design, Great Entrepreneurs, Humor, Inspirational, international businessman, linux hackers, Make Money Online, mysql c, php mysql, professional accountant, programmers, programming class, programming languages, story of my life, textbook, valedictorian, web servers

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 5:23 am and is filed under Blogging, Great Entrepreneurs, Humor, Inspirational, Make Money Online.