Overcoming Career Challenges

Below are three stories I really enjoy sharing because, to me, they demonstrate the ultimate examples in overcoming challenges to reach career and job search success: 

Know What You Can Do And Persist
The motion picture screen test report on him read simply: “Can’t act.  Slightly bald.  Also dances.”  Fred Astaire eventually ended up at RKO Studios, where he and Ginger Rogers made the top musicals of that era.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire)

You’re Never Too Old
At age 52, Ray Kroc was the exclusive distributor for a company that produced “multi-mixer” milkshake machines. Impressed by a small chain of hamburger restaurants based in San Bernardino, California that used the multi-mixers, Ray acquired franchising rights from the owners, the McDonald brothers. He then founded McDonald’s Corporation in 1955. In 1961, he bought out the McDonald brothers for $2.7 million and borrowed at interest rates that eventually made the cost $14 million.   It turned out to be a bargain, as McDonald’s grew into the world’s largest quick-service restaurant organization. (http://www.answers.com/topic/ray-kroc)

If At First You Don’t Succeed…
He started a small company called Laugh-O-Grams, which eventually fell bankrupt. With his suitcase and twenty dollars, Walt Disney headed to Hollywood to start anew. (http://www.justdisney.com/walt_disney/biography/w_bio_short.html)