Posted on 11/09/2023 8:05:13 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
In the 1970s, the coolest job you could have was flipping burgers at McDonald’s.
At least according to Paul Hendel...
Still, he felt conflicted. Hendel asked his dad for advice before accepting the offer at McDonald’s. That conversation, he says, “changed the trajectory of my career.”
“We were out to dinner, and I mentioned the offer from Hunt, and my dad’s first question — I’ll never forget it — was, ‘Do you like what you do?’” says Hendel. “And I said, ‘Yeah, I really love it.’ And he goes, ‘Do you think you’re good at it?’ And I said, ‘Well I just got promoted!’”
He continues: “Then he said, ‘Paul, if that’s what you like to do, and you’re good at it, stick with it because I’m not crazy about my job or commuting into Manhattan every day.’ I realized, then, that work isn’t just about getting a paycheck every week. I’m so glad he gave me the advice he did, because I still love what I do.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
I did some contract work for them at the Oakbrook, Illinois Headquarters, Some of the most pleasant people I have ever worked for! And they work like dogs, when the monthly reports are due, five o'clock comes and goes and no one leaves, a few work all night long!!!
I hope he at least worked his way up from fries to grill.
Fifty years later, Hendel owns and operates 31 McDonald’s locations across Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, including the flagship restaurant in Times Square.
He hasn't spent the last 50 years flipping burgers ...
All work deserves respect. I take my hat off to him.
Did he destroy the environment serving McDLT’s? Asking for a liberal friend. LOL
Lol...yeah that context slightly changes the trajectory of where I though the article was going.
$1.85 an hour… if they had enacted mandatory five dollar an hour minimum wage laws back then this dude with own zero McDonald’s today.
This Lifer became a multi-millionaire, and his story is not the only one
Sometimes people miss real opportunities, because they can't see beyond their current status within an organization. Others can see the possibilities, and reap far more than their peers who scoffed at their decisions.
Owns and operates 31 franchises is the NY metro. Yeah. I'd say he moved up from fries.
I wonder if Maurice has moved up from washing lettuce yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70RQLtdVeU
Yeah_ I would say so:
“Fifty years later, Hendel owns and operates 31 McDonald’s locations across Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, including the flagship restaurant in Times Square.”
Kind of changes the meaning of the story.
Thanks for the context.
The story is equivalent to : “Wow! Some people make a career with McDonalds corporation or as franchise owners!”
“I hope he at least worked his way up from fries to grill.”
ROTFLMAO! Read the article!
It’s not the same McDonald’s as it was in Ray Kroc’s time.
Highly recommend the movie “The Founder” if you haven’t seen it yet.
Mr. Morgan sure set his sights low. I wanted to be an astronaut or an F1 driver. For quite a while, I thought it would be cool to be Farah Fawcett's masseuse.
That was indeed a good movie.
“Mr. Morgan sure set his sights low. “
He was 16!
When he graduated from college he was supervising five locations. Now he owns 31 McD’s.
Back in the ‘70’s to ‘90’s, I knew an actual lifer worker bee at our Littleton, CO McDonald’s. I’m embarrassed that I can’t recall her name right now, but she was a mom turned grandma by the time she retired. All of us kids knew her from when we were in elementary school until graduating high school and then back from college. She was like a second mom and made McDonald’s even more special.
If the chance allows, I always ask people if they like their job. Some of the most happy, satisfied people work at mundane jobs I’d die at. A 7/11 night clerk, for example. Somebody once said there’s a seat for every ass. I spent a career as an engineer. But at every job, about six months in, I’d mastered what I was doing and looking around to take on something different. Towards the end, at General Dynamics, when I couldn’t find another job and they laying off, I lettered up a sign reading, “Will work for charge number. Will not spend it on beer.” I was the only employee who had worked in every department. Finance, HR, shipping, because in any large organization someone has a job and funding but no one to do it. It was about the only satisfying time I spent there.
“For quite a while, I thought it would be cool to be Farah Fawcett’s masseuse.”
Nice work if you can get it. Imagine actually being paid for that!
There was an Asian man who got a job at a Walmart decades ago. His job was sweeping the back area of one of the stores. He eventually became the Walmart CEO. Starting at the bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay at the bottom.
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