Who Influenced You?

Targus
By Targus

Who influenced you to be who you are in your profession right now? Everybody leaves a mark on you, in big or in a small scale.

I am a Business Analyst & a Marketer, and I was influenced by 3 movies & my first boss..Yep!

So what influenced you to choose this profession?

By timebandit• 27 Nov 2012 06:48
timebandit

Monty Python, Airplane, Stripes and Not The Nine O'Clock News, made me what I am today.

By Alostrael• 27 Nov 2012 05:48
Alostrael

Albert Pike and baron Ungern

By Victory_278692• 20 Nov 2012 08:08
Victory_278692

No blosted, people get influemced by reading biographies of Great Leaders, Statesman, Scientists, Philsophers, Writers, etc, etc.....I forget Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Tata's and Ambanis....

By Blosted• 19 Nov 2012 23:18
Blosted

Am I the only one here who has been influenced by some people I never met?

Richard Dawkins and the Science tv shows presentetd when I was a kid.

By Victory_278692• 19 Nov 2012 09:51
Rating: 3/5
Victory_278692

and mentors are different.

My mentors are my mother and brother (RIP), supported and inspired during school / college days.

Influenced by many, learned various senior and high management techinques while working in different organisations :)

By anonymous• 12 Nov 2012 16:28
anonymous

Schrödinger's Cat, brit, showed me that I could be everything at the same time: dead or alive, until somebody would check on me. So, I'm trying to let this not happen.

By Targus• 12 Nov 2012 16:14
Targus

lol..@dracula physical marks do not count.. will start a different forum for them...

By cherukkan• 12 Nov 2012 14:31
cherukkan

God and my fatherly second boss.

By sag• 12 Nov 2012 12:57
Rating: 4/5
sag

My Maths tutor in 12th standard who taught basics of maths so lucidly that I finished 12 years syllabi in two months!

By MarcoNandoz-01• 12 Nov 2012 12:54
MarcoNandoz-01

God and my Mama

By Canadian Achilles• 12 Nov 2012 12:43
Canadian Achilles

I remember my first bosses, back home, asking me if I did drugs when I showed up the first day to work when i was 16.

I replied "no, I was an army cadet, etc." to which the coolest filipino boss I ever had replied, "good, BECAUSE WE DOOO!" lol

he later on shot nails from a nail gun at my feet, making me dance like a monkey as the nails sparked off the floor.

it was still the most fun i've ever had working, ever. I didn't feel like I was showing up to the manual slave labor job that it was, paying minimum wage, but rather, to come hang out with a group of really awesome guys, my boss included!

I learned that your job can be to go through the gates of hell, but it's the people around you that make it feel like playing mini golf in your air conditioned office.

he was also the one that nurtured my natural I.T. talent, and had me design the company websites, logos, business cards, etc. to which i made him proud so he'd stop throwing things at me.

By Dracula• 12 Nov 2012 12:35
Dracula

Targus said: "Everybody leaves a mark on you, in big or in a small scale."

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I have 2 marks on my neck!

By britexpat• 12 Nov 2012 12:05
britexpat

Did Schrodinger's cat influence you ?

By hms• 12 Nov 2012 11:58
Rating: 3/5
hms

Circumstances and passion for my work and challenges it poses took me Planning department.

By Ingesu• 12 Nov 2012 11:57
Ingesu

I met a lady married to a wealthy Qatarie and she showed how working was not just about earning money obviously, but about how to make a difference (positive!) in the world.

The way she described her own work (we were colleagues) made me ashamed of me being there just for the good salary.

In other words, I got inspired to become a REAL teacher, in soul and body, as I used to be before greediness took over!!

By FathimaH• 12 Nov 2012 11:50
FathimaH

So I will refer to life itself.. In my life a person who inspired and influenced me most would have to be my younger sister. It's thanks to her influence, AlHamdulillah, that a lot of positive changes came about in me. She influenced me to doing what's better even if it meant sacrificing some of life's more temporally pleasures. And today I am a far better if not happier person.

By fea_sad• 12 Nov 2012 11:49
fea_sad

Numbers influence me to be an accountant :)

By anonymous• 12 Nov 2012 11:45
anonymous

Quantum Physics gave me all possibilities. I chose the one that promised positive responses from the other gender.

By britexpat• 12 Nov 2012 11:28
Rating: 5/5
britexpat

Started off as Mechanical Engineer, "fell" into I.T and been there ever since. My first boss was a great role model..

By Quixote• 12 Nov 2012 11:06
Rating: 4/5
Quixote

Our Gardener - As I grew up he always said (cliched) get the balance of want and need correct in your life and you will be happy

By osamabawab• 12 Nov 2012 11:06
Rating: 4/5
osamabawab

Luck & circumstances

By anonymous• 12 Nov 2012 11:04
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

myself. but there are people who are very supportive of me.

By Victory_278692• 12 Nov 2012 10:26
Victory_278692

My banker brother, to pass the leisure time and out of necessity for living.....made me a seasoned banker

By GodFather.• 12 Nov 2012 10:17
GodFather.

I am an accidental Hero, wanted to be something else ended up being an Engineer :(

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