Thursday, June 10, 2010

How to get your dream job.


LOWELL, Mass. (AP) - Roger Goodell sent 40 letters to the NFL office in New York City looking for a job in 1981. Forty rejections came back.
But more letters to NFL headquarters followed, until one day a weary league executive invited him to "stop by when you're in the neighborhood."
"I told him I was in the neighborhood," recalled Goodell, who then drove all night from Pittsburgh to New York City to apply for what was supposed to be a three-month internship.
Twenty-five years later, Goodell was appointed to his dream job: commissioner of the National Football League.

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