"Opportunities Look A lot Like Work"

[kpete]

First, opportunity:

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work . I never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a stepping-stone to my next job. And I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

Number two, being sexy:

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else … is crap, I promise you. It’s just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don’t buy it. Be smart, be thoughtful, and be generous.

The third thing… is something that I just re-learned when I was making this movie about Steve Jobs:

Steve Jobs said, when you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way that it is, and that your life is to live your life inside the world and try not to get in too much trouble, and maybe get an education, and get a job, and make some money and have a family. But life can be a lot broader than that when you realize one simple thing: and that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you. And you can build your own things, you can build your own life that other people can live in.

So build a life; don’t live one, build one. Find your opportunities and always be sexy.


(not an (Chris) Ashton Kutcher fan, but this is smart):
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/16/is-ashton-kutchers-speech-really-all-that-inspiring-turns-out-it-is-video/#ixzz2c9EotBaV

[Safetykitten]

1. So sayeth person that never really "worked" a day in his life.

[kpete]

3. you are thinking of Ashton Kutcher

NOT Chris Kutcher
watch to the video
or NO jumping to conclusions...


peace, kp

[Fumesucker]

4. It says "Ashton Kutcher" at the top of the video

[Safetykitten]

5. What was that?

[KamaAina]

14. You're both right.

His full name is Christopher Ashton Kutcher.

[mainer]

7. I've been on film sets. Yes, it's work.

And it comes with long hours, whether you're in front of the camera or behind it.

[Safetykitten]

8. Oh, got it. Hard work making movies.

[Igel]

11. Such dismissiveness.

How about sweeping floors for General Mills? Is that "real work" because it's physical labor?

I've also been on film sets. I had to help somebody acquire a Russian accent. I'd get there at 8 am to find that the actress I was coaching had been in make up and on the set by 6 am. I stayed until 5, when they announced that they'd be working until 10 pm. Again. The set was the sub-basement of 60-year-old hotel that was going to be imploded in a few weeks. Damp, dirty, poorly lit, and perfect for that episode.

When she wasn't on the set she was still working. Memorizing lines. Working on accent. Standing in front of a mirror trying to get things right for herself. Outside working with a trainer because while she was lithe she wasn't a karate expert except in front of the camera.

Or arguing with the script editor about things like "Two episodes ago I had a husband, and now, a month later, I've never been married." She gets her new lines an hour later and has to have them memorized, with affect, 45 minutes later.

She was exhausted after having put in 4 16 hour days. And resentful that as she left the set they'd hand her the rewritten script for the next day--and she'd have to have part of it learned by 6 a.m., 8 hours later. 45 minutes home, 45 minutes back, she'd get maybe 6 hours sleep. And she really missed her daughter and was having trouble keeping her. Her ex-husband, a state governor, was fighting back.

(In the end the show lasted only a couple of seasons, she kept custody of her daughter, her ex-husband was either voted out of office or indicted; she dyed her hair, had a boob job and became a major character in a very popular show. Resistance can be futile if you work hard at overcoming and are exposed to chances you can leverage into opportunities. But preparation also takes a lot of hard work.)

I also knew a "non-worker" manager. He put in long hours setting up a chain of franchises. He'd drag himself to church every Saturday, having hit the sack at sundown and waking up at noon to make up for the sleep he'd missed during the week. He looked like hell. He was 25.

Not all hard work is labor intensive. It can still be "real work."

[Safetykitten]

13. I know. I will never be convinced that "acting" is labor. Sorry.

[Xyzse]

10. For some reason all of a sudden I thought of Jason Stackhouse when you said this

Jason Stackhouse: Why ain't you never liked me, Andy? Was it because of how much pussy I get?
Detective Andy Bellefleur: No.
Jason Stackhouse: 'Cause I ain't never taken any pussy away from you. There is more than enough pussy to go around.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: It ain't about pussy! I just think you've had everything to easy.
Jason Stackhouse: What have I ever had that was easy?
Detective Andy Bellefleur: You were all-state quarter back.
Jason Stackhouse: You think that was easy? I'm startin' to have knee issues and I ain't even thirty yet. What else?
Detective Andy Bellefleur: Well yeah, women do just throw themselves at you. You don't even have to do anything.
Jason Stackhouse: Yeah well, actually I do. I work out like a mother-fucker and I watch a lotta porn to learn stuff. What else?... My best friend killed my grandma and my girlfriend. I come from no money. My momma and daddy died when I was eleven.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: So did mine!
Jason Stackhouse: Your daddy died in Vietnam, but your momma ran off with some yankee race car driver. You may hate me, Andy Bellefleur. You may think you're better than me and maybe you are. But you and me are the ones who have received the callin' to save this town! So obviously God wants us to bury the hatchet.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: -understanding- It's all up to us, aint' it?
Jason Stackhouse: It is and we can't fuck it up.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: -certain- We won't fuck it up.
Jason Stackhouse: This town might be full of crazy rednecks and dumb-asses, but they're still Americans.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: That used to mean something.
Jason Stackhouse: It still does!

Sorry, can't help it.

Still, even if he is the messenger, Mr. Kutcher does have a point in what he has just said. So, I'll give him props for this one.

[Rex]

2. Dude you're getting a Dell!

[clarice]

6. LOL. I LOVE it when celebrities try to be DEEP. nt

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. My point of view FWIW...He is right. n/t

[GalaxyHunter]

12. He is exactly right and everyone should hear this before they decide to complain about hard work.