what about the floating washcloth magic trick ? <| sep |> It ' s a long post , sorry right away , but it needs the whole story to explain it well . Since I ' m very young everyone around me told me I was naturally gifted to convince people to believe or do things they didn ' t want to believe or do . When I had to drop out I decided to give sales a shot being the # 1 legal job where you can still make a 6 number digit salary without needing diplomas . I ' ve decided to start my salesman career by selling coupon books from door to door . Usually started my day work around 10 in the morning till 89 in the afternoon . That ' s where I ' ve really learned how to master various customer base sales technique . I ' ve worked hard and actually enjoyed it . After doing that for 2 years I ' ve actually knocked on the door of the owner of the company I work for now , he nearly closed it right away on my face but for some reason I was able to convince him to listen to me . At that moment he was looking for a business development agent in his company basically B to B salesman . I had no experience nor knowledge in this type of sales but I impressed him so hard during my pitch that after buying one of my coupon book offered me an interview for his company . Went there the other day and got the job . Now coming in a workplace where I knew nothing failed math twice in highschool , not an engineer at all I knew I had to work really hard and put a lot of effort if I wanted to keep my job . When everyone of my coworkers were doing their 8 hour shift and then heading home , I was always the first one to arrive and the last to leave working around 1011 hours a day I was used too it anyway with the door to door sales . After the first year I was ranking right in the middle for the most quotation and contract broughtsigned . After my second year I ' ve reached the top and bested all my coworkers by far signing by myself in term of value half of our last year revenue We are 15 salesman That impressed my boss V . P of business dev at the time a lot and on my third year when the department manager retired instead of hiring from outside my Boss V . P offered me the job if I was ready to do more hours for them without pay Basically it meant going to a shit ton of formation to understand what my new role was gonna be I did it , my work day went from averaging 10 hours to averaging 12 hours a day of work . It wasn ' t easy , but knowing that I had 2 daughters to financial take care of alone was enough to motivate me . Skip 2 years in the future and I ' m still in position , the department is striving , the company revenue are growing each year and I am still the top salesman even with my surplus of work due to my newly acquired work load after the promotion . The company owner decides to fire the V . P My boss because he was starting to miss a lot of days in the office for no valid reason . The owner of the company which I ' ve tried to never let down knew that I was a hard worker and quick learner and out of the bloom offered me the job . That ' s how I became , at 24 years old , the V . P of the business development of my company while leading a team of 40 years old men in average . From my perspective , the owner saw an opportunity in me of a kid with raw talent in sale that he could mold and shape the way he wanted to become exactly what he wanted and that ' s what happened . I still think the biggest factor weren ' t my knowledge or the diplomas I never had but the fact that I have never work less then 10 hours a day at his office without ever asking more money for the bonus hours and ranking # 1 in terms of the money I bring in for the 4 th year in a row now . Some will say luck , I ' ll say hardwork does it . When I was younger my dad always told me Do what nobody else will to get what nobody else will and that ' s exactly what I did .