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The Grind: Working for Experience Over Immediate Pay

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How You Can Get Into The Racing Industry: My Story of Getting College Credits to Race

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The speaker shares his own early experience with Jeff Lutz, a well-known drag racer and fabricator. He showed up at Lutz's shop early one morning, asking if there was anything he could do. Lutz immediately put him to work grinding off tabs from a chassis. The speaker continued to show up day after day, performing any task asked of him. He stresses that too many people avoid such opportunities because they want immediate, high pay, which he considers 'the stupidest thing.'

Goal: Understand the value of working for experience and proving oneself before expecting high compensation.

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  • Grinder — Cutting and grinding metal on a chassis

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. The car is moving. I'm on a walk now. I do this every night. And the same thing happened to me with Jeff Lutz. Just kept showing up after I got to know him a little and understood what they were doing. I ask, "Okay, what are you doing tomorrow?" And, you know, he told me. I'm like, "Okay, cool." And I just show up. And one day I arrived there around 8 am . I walk in, there was an older guy, and he says, "Oh , hi, what are you, what are you doing here so early?" Because he knew I usually don't wake up before ten or something like that. And I'm like, "I don't have anything anyway. That's why I'm here. Do you have any work for me?" And he's like, "Oh, yeah. Can you use a grinder?" And I'm like, "Yeah ." He says, "Okay, cut all of this." And he made me spend almost all day cutting off the rest of this chassis. I just sat there cutting all day . Cutting and sanding. Cutting and sanding. And then he says, "What are you doing tomorrow?" I said, "I 'll come here if you have a job for me ." He said, " Okay, tomorrow we'll do scarves or something." That's how it works. Too many people want to get paid right away or a lot of money at once . So they do n't do it, and it holds them back from being successful . And that's the stupidest thing you can do. Because if you come in and work for free and do a good job, eventually they'll get paid. And if they don't, someone else will, because you know what you're doing and you care. And that's hard to find these days. Well, that's

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