My story — How did I become a waiter in Cracow?
How did I become a waiter in Cracow and how did my transformation look like? I will tell you here my story, which I hope will show you that, despite many odds, you can change your life. If you’re looking for some motivation, this article for you.
The year 2012, which was a hard time, and my move to Cracow
My adventure began in 2012 and 2013, when I decided to go from my family city of Oświecim to a city located nearby, Cracow. At that time, I was in poor mental and life condition in general. I had a lot of failures in my life. I closed my company, which involved recording occasional events. I could not keep my place in any of the roles I have chosen afterwards. I tried my hand as a truck driver and as an intern at a larger corporation. None of these options was for me, and these adventures ended up with nothing more than me feeling resigned and sad.
By the end of 2012, I was already in quite a bit of trouble in life. At that time I lost the rest of my strength and will to live. My ex-fiancée decided to go abroad (I don’t blame her at all), and many people around me didn’t particularly know what to do with me. I also went to a psychologist with hope for help, but there was very fast conclusion that there was no money to continue my treatment.
As I was then after my eyes surgery (eye correction), my eyes were “out of service” for several weeks. Back then, I listened to an excellent audiobook, which was about a lost boyfriend and about a rich garden who advised him. The book was a collection of cool motivational and business tips that was presented with a simple history. I was very much encouraged by this book (in the audio version) to act and write down my goals. Disregarding the hopeless situation and lack of faith on my part, I decided to write down these goals. My goal was to go to Cracow, find a job and play in a band (I was a musician and played a bass guitar).
Over time, I’ve changed these goals a little and set music aside, because I didn’t see my future in this. But after renting a small apartment and having no savings, I decided to set more ambitious targets. Below you can see a list of my goals from the beginning of 2013:
2019 Update — not all goals were achieved on time, but in 2019 I achieved my goals excluding the goal number two (first things first). However, the goal number four was no longer my goal as soon as I gave up playing music. I do not know if what I have achieved is a great job for you, but please remember that I had the largest black dog, I had no job or prospects. I have created a solid business and passive income, I built my financial cushion higher than I intended, and the goal number one was achieved faultlessly. As you can see, writing down your goals makes sense.
Year 2013 and the beginning of changes
The beginning of 2013 has not brought about great changes, but the goals I have set seem to have worked for me, because I kept doing something to achieve them. I was looking for a job in Cracow and my foothold. At some point, I got a job and worked in a warehouse in a clothing sorting company. ‘Now or never’, I thought. I rented a flat and moved to Cracow. Unfortunately, after a few days it turned out that I was not needed there any more. I was left with a rented flat and without work. After a few days of searching for another job, I decided to go to this company again and I was accepted back. I had worked there company until spring, for a few months, until I was fired reportedly because I was not a good fit there.
Looking for another job, I found an ad where they were looking for a person to deliver food by a moped at a restaurant in the center of Cracow. I went through the interview wearing short and with no CV. I was accepted and a few days later I was driving a moped getting to know Cracow and handing around Florianska Street and my restaurant. I have met a lot of interesting people with whom I have a very good contact to until today.
2014 and how did I become a waiter?
After a very pleasant summer season and knowing the Cracow topography, I was offered the opportunity to work as a waiter in the same restaurant. I was a little bit frightened by this fact, because it involved learning loads of new things and extending my comfort zone significantly. The beginnings were challenging and stressful. Serving people from all over the world in the restaurant in the center of Cracow was a challenge for me. I had to learn how to carry a tray, polish my English, learn the customs of people from all over the world, and face the quintessence of life, which is undoubtedly working in the food industry.
I made a lot of mistakes from the very beginning. I spilled drinks on people, I dropped food, I made mistakes with regard to payments and bills. Overall, it was hard and interesting at the same time, and I learned a lot of new things every day. To be honest, nothing better could have happened to me at the time than such a kick-in-the-ass forcing me to survive. Living alone in a foreign city did not allow me to give up easily, because I needed money to pays bills and make a living. On top of that, there was a fight with my chef, who wanted to get rid of me and kept telling me that I was all thumbs. I decided not to give up and not to let it go. I had let it go too many times and I had lost too much with this approach.
After a few months, I started to feel more confident and, over time, it was more and more pleasurable to work as a waiter. Winter slowly ended, and I started to pick up the crop of not giving up. I met many interesting people at work. Outside the work, I went to parties and met with different people. I spent a lot of time with Marcin, whom I met in the restaurant. We worked a lot together in the restaurant, and we met often outside of work. Summer soon arrived and we went on extraordinary vacation to Mielno and the Woodstock Festival 2014. It was a great time, and at the festival I met my then girlfriend and other people.
I did not know anyone in Krakow a few months earlier and I did not even have any work. However, being forced to act and to go out has completely changed my life. This was the beginning of great change and future successes.
Working as a waiter in Cracow — what was the result?
I have worked as a waiter for three years and this was a very interesting period in my life. At first I couldn’t do anything and many people tried to bring me down, but I didn’t give up. The brave chef left my restaurant over time, and I learned new things every day, grew as a person, read a lot of books and became interested in online business. After three years, I became the manager of this restaurant and thanks to my work the restaurant improved very much.
A few years back, when I started as a moped driver, I wouldn’t even think I could be a waiter and a manager. As it turned out later, I was not only able to do it, but I could do it very well. If you’re reading this article and think you’re unable to do something and you might be afraid of something, remember you can do it. Nothing happens immediately and easily. You often have to fight for yourself and not give up. There will always be people who want to break you. Things that today seem difficult and impossible to do in a few years can be a reality. Remember, you have to set goals, motivate yourself and break through your comfort zone every day.
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Hi!
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It’s Tomek.
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From Waiter To Millionaire.
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Hello to you from beautiful Cracow,
all smoggy and wintry,
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and not necessarily the prettiest.
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Maybe as a youtuber I should record
from some beautiful country,
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expensive car or apartment, or
at least, from a studio.
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Unfortunately, the reality is that
I am recording for you from wintry Cracow.
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I’m standing a little bit in the mud,
but that’s life.
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Sometimes you have to
get dirty and work hard to succeed.
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In today’s film, I will tell
you how I became a waiter.
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You will learn cool stories about me.
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Very motivating.
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Stay and listen
to the end.
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You won’t regret it.
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I will show you here
the surroundings of the Krakus Mound.
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With a view of Cracow.
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How I became a waiter in Cracow.
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Because here I moved.
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Now, I am 32 years old.
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My adventure began
at the turn of 2012 and 2013.
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Then, I was about 27 years old.
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Yes, I was 27 years old,
and I felt terribly down.
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I was in a great life hole.
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I graduated from the university, I worked for several years, I had a business,
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I was filming weddings. And I was
in a big life hole.
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I didn’t know what to do.
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I was not very successful
and many people left me.
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Many people wrote me off, including
the closest ones,
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but it was my fault.
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I didn’t know what to do with myself.
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I was in total depression.
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It was 2012, I was sitting
at home, I was not working.
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It was very bad with me for a long time.
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I met a specialist.
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Even there soon
I wasn’t welcome. They had no funds.
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They threw me out, and it was bad.
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My then finance had enough too
after many years and she went abroad.
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I’m not surprised at all.
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I also had enough of myself.
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Although, then it was terrible.
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I was alone, I didn’t know
what to do, it was winter, and it was bad.
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But being alone, I started thinking a lot.
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I listened to the first book
about, say, personal development.
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I don’t remember exactly,
but it was a book about
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a boy, about a person who did not
know what to do in his life.
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He met a millionaire
who loved roses.
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He was taking care of roses in the garden.
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He was very wealthy and advised this
person what to do in life
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to run a business and gave
various motivational tips.
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It was a fictional book,
but it motivated me very well.
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I was after an eye surgery.
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For a few weeks, I couldn’t even
read, but it was an audiobook.
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I was listening and got very motivated.
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Then, I wrote my first goals
to move to Cracow.
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It was in Oświęcim, where I lived then,
and I decided to Move to Cracow.
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I had quite specific goals
because I wanted to become a musician.
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I was in the hole,
so I decided
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to leave to Cracow and become a musician.
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A few months later
the new year, 2013 began,
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And I tried to get a job
in Cracow to move there,
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to get out of my house, because
I was in such a hole
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I didn’t know what was happening to me.
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And I found a job in Cracow.
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It was work in a warehouse,
stocking second-hand clothes.
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Hard physical work,
poorly paid, but I thought
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I will move out and just see what will happen.
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I could not take it anymore.
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I moved.
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I rented an apartment.
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Its cost was virtually
the same as my salary.
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But whatever.
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I decided to
move and see what’s next.
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This is how I got the job as a warehouse worker
in a little shabby company near Cracow.
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I rented a shitty apartment
above the warehouse.
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With a hole in the door.
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But I knew it was only for a start.
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It wasn’t easy.
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After few days
in the first job they fired me.
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I was left without a job, with
a rented apartment in an unfamiliar city.
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I did not know a single person.
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And it was terrible.
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I remember lying down.
I felt very bad again.
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But I decided not to give up.
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Once again, I tried to come back there.
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They accepted me.
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I worked for a few months.
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It was very hard for me,
my hands were destroyed.
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But I did not give up.
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Then came spring 2013.
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The owner of the factory called me.
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He said I’m not good for anything.
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I suck.
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You are working until
the weekend and cope with it.
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I was really sorry.
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Once again, alone in Cracow
with a rented apartment.
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I didn’t know anyone again.
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But at least it was spring.
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After looking for a job,
trying to work here and there,
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where I couldn’t fit in at all,
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I saw an ad for a moped in a restaurant.
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This job was below any
qualification of anyone,
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but I thought to give it a try,
to make an attempt to work anywhere.
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I wanted to see what will happen.
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It was bad, so nothing to lose.
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I decided I had
nothing to lose in my life.
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And I will just work somewhere where
I can, and my life will take off.
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I got a job in a restaurant in the center of
Cracow looking for a moped driver.
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I remember until today when I entered
this restaurant wearing shorts.
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Without a CV, without anything.
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I said I don’t have a CV.
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But I asked for the manager.
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After a short conversation, he told me
I was concrete and I got that job.
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I started a few days later.
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The new scooter was waiting.
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And this was how I revived
for the whole summer of 2013.
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I got a job in a nice
restaurant with great people.
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I met great people
NI really like to this day.
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And it was a great summer.
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For the first time in many
years I felt alive.
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I got to knew entire Cracow,
riding a moped.
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I did not drive much.
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More I sat in the
restaurant and on Floriańska Street.
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It was great.
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I didn’t earn much,
but I felt free.
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I finally met people.
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I met a girl.
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It was really cool.
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In the meantime,
I even played in the band.
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It was my plan and
it was also a success for me.
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Nothing came out of it later.
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But, I met my goal.
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I moved to Krakow.
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I played in a music band.
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And I worked as a moped driver.
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However, the autumn came.
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You know mopeds aren’t useful in winter.
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No one drives them.
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Me neither.
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And I was offered a job
in the same restaurant as a waiter.
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I was damn terrified because
before moving out to Cracow,
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I had thought about
finding a job as a waiter.
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But my comfort zone, my
self-confidence was so low that the idea
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I could work as a waiter
in Cracow was unimaginable.
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And I was just damn afraid of it.
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The very thought to work in
Cracow as a waiter
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was unthinkable to me.
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Therefore, when they offered me
this job I was terribly afraid.
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But I started working as a waiter.
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Autumn came and I started
my first life lessons, actually next ones.
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And the beginnings were very difficult.
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From a person who was good for nothing
in life, the transition to a waiter
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in a pretty cool Cracow restaurant,
and I had contact with people from there,
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it was damn difficult for me.
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I had a lot of skirmishes
and fights with the kitchen ahead of me.
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I remember until today
the cooks in this restaurant said
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I was good for nothing, I sucked,
I should have get out of there.
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And I had to fight for my life with myself.
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I decided that I would not let go,
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as I always had in such situations.
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When someone was breaking my balls,
I always let go.
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I decided that
I would fight and I would not give up.
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I fought.
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They were saying: “either we or you.”
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But I coped with it.
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And months passed one after another.
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I was working as a waiter.
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I acquired my first skills,
because it was damn hard work.
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This is a damn hard
job, you have to admit it.
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And the beginnings were very difficult.
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Work, serving people from all over the world.
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A thousand details.
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Linguistic skills.
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Learning habits,
how to serve people
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from all over the world.
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A restaurant in the center,
with guests from all over the world.
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A difficult experience for me.
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Half a year earlier or a year earlier,
I was at home with total depression.
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So it was an amazing experience for me,
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and a damn good experience,
because either I would die there
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or I had to make it and survive.
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And I survived.
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The first few months passed.
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There were incidents.
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Food was falling.
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Many times I had enough.
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I had dreams about work.
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Dreams that I sleep in the
restaurant I work in.
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I had nightmares.
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It really took me a good few months,
half a year to get used to it.
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More or less.
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The real adoption
came after two years,
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I would say, or after a year.
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It takes a long time to
learn something.
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It is not that after
a month you know everything.
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This also applies to all spheres of life.
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I met great people there.
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Then summer came,
after winter, more leisure.
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I met great people in this job I know until today.
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Greetings Marcin, I hope you’re watching this.
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And the next summer I also spent on work,
on a very pleasant work
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with wonderful people,
there was even was a getaway
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to the Polish sea, with people I met
at work, a trip to Woodstock.
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Then I met my then girlfriend,
with whom we spent cool moments,
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working, of course, all the time.
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And I really did revived then.
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I lived an interesting life.
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It was be a big challenge for me.
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I had the opportunity to travel,
to see things, to have fun.
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And in this way, as a waiter,
I had been working,
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I don’t want to lie to you, three years, until 2016.
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To October, I started in 2013.
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It’s about three years.
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Perhaps exactly 3 years.
I started from October.
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These years really
taught me a lot, to be with people.
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How to deal with life.
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Just like that.
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How to get out of this mess
in the restaurant, with 15 or 10 tables,
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With people coming and going,
mixed-up food.
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Out-of-service equipment.
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The computer was on the blink,
the AC out of order.
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I was confronted there
with everything I could,
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and it taught me life.
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I often cursed, but
I am damn grateful.
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If you’re young and can work as a waiter,
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work for a year, two, three and
you will meet wonderful people.
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Certainly, there are cool places where
you can work in the food industry.
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And I am damn glad I had this
time that I experienced then.
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I am grateful that then, as
I moved from Oświęcim to Cracow,
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when I was very afraid, that I endured
this fear, that I went forward.
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Thank you to all those
who gave me up.
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Thank you to those who
fired me and said I sucked.
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Thank you.
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Thank you to even the cooks who
claimed that I am good for nothing.
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And said: “either we or you”. It was me.
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That’s how it ended.
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I really thank them for all these difficult
moments, because they have strengthened me so much.
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And also being a waiter, I became interested in
making money on the Internet.
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My collegues also were digging in this topic.
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And recommended me some channels on youtube, etc.
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In the meantime, as I started
my own adventure with Cracow,
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I did nothing,
I worked as a waiter, I read many great books.
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The first one was Schwarzenneger’s biography,
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which changed my thinking a bit.
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I didn’t start to do something right away,
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but slowly my thinking changed.
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I noticed that if I was able
to get my life out of this mess
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I have the power to slowly move forward.
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Not so fast maybe, one step at a time.
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So it was a great time.
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After 3 years, I became
the manager of the restaurant,
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where I was a driver 3 years earlier.
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Where I entered
without a CV, in shorts.
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Where they said I was good for nothing,
I should get lost.
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I became the manager.
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And then I actually saved
this restaurant, and helped it a lot.
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I think so.
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Its bottom line was finally in the positive territory.
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I was very happy.
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So if they tell you you can’t do anything,
you won’t make it,
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do not worry.
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If they throw you away, give up on you,
it means this is not a place for you.
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And thank those people,
who say this to you.
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Follow your way, do not worry,
try endlessly,
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show others what you’ve got.
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And perhaps you will not attain it
in a month or a year.
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Sometimes it will take years before
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you show others
and yourselves your real worth.
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The same took me many years.
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Now, it is 5 years since
I moved to Cracow.
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All messed up with fear inside.
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A few years later,
I was the manager of this diner.
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So don’t be afraid of it,
go forward.
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I am now facing
another challenge.
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I’m creating a blog,
I work on Amazon.
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And again, I feel like I can’t do anything.
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But I will learn and I will make it.
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If you liked this video,
you want to know
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how my work in the
food industry looked like, contact me.
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I will reply.
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Or I will record
a video you want.
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I will really be very grateful for
any questions, interactions.
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I will be happy to help everyone.
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If you like it, please
give me a thumb up, share,
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like and subscribe to my
channel if you want to know more
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about working over the Internet, on Amazon.
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I will talk about gastronomy a little bit,
as well if you want.
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Let me know, subscribe and
thank you, see you soon.
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Bye.