What a bunch of dribble.  

I will be turning 30 soon, and one step closer to wise.  And 
its funny that "wisdom" is a concept I've just recently 
understood.  10 years ago, it wasn't much more then a word 
to me.


This is not to say I've only contempt for that younger version 
of me.  I mean, I was full of ideas, hungry to learn, willing 
to try and fail and try again.  All great stuff right?  But I 
learned it didn't do me any good to whine about "why don't 
old-timers let me do it my way!?".  My only real choice was to 
prove the old-timers wrong...again, and again and again.  You 
have to understand, that in this world, there is such a thing 
as reputation.  And you have zero of it has a young person.  
Doesn't matter if you're talented.  That fact is only known 
by you.  If you really believe you are talented, then you must 
put forth the effort to make your ideas a reality in the face 
of opposition, in the face of nay-sayers and doubters.  And you 
must do this again and again, because people will just assume 
the first success was a fluke.

Sound hard?  Yeah I know, young people bitch about this all 
the time.  Its just because they're stupid and haven't figured 
out how the world works yet.

You know this reminds me of a great Soviet Union propoganda 
poster.  Wish I kept the link.  The poster was divided in half.  
On one side was a young russian girl playing the violin before 
a packed crowd, and she's all happy as can be.  And the other 
side a down-trodden young American boy, walking through the 
streets of New York alone with his violin in tow.  All depressed 
because no one would hire him.  And the words on the poster read 
something like "Under socialism, young people realize their 
dreams".  LOL, what a sales pitch.  Hey comrades?

So to re-cap boys and girls.  Reputation is a hard thing to 
earn.  In fact, it might be the hardest thing in all of the 
world to create and keep.  According to the NYSE its valuable.  
And to expect that other people should give you the benefit of 
the doubt, to trust you when you're completely unproven, to 
just hand over that token of faith without having earned it, 
well...there's really no nice of way putting this...your just 
a fool.