The start of something important for 2010

I was recently promoted at my "day job" and put into a managerial role...after meeting with the people that I would be working with and observing them in the workplace, it reminded me of a project I created two years ago... "The Enlightened Graduate"
As an oldest brother, I am constantly giving advice on life and business and two years ago I decided to start writing it down. After about 12 lessons, I decided I needed to start typing it. 30 lessons later, I realized I had an instruction manual on my hands for young college grads adventuring into the business world. A book on what NOT to do and what to expect.
I searched my emails for about two hours and found the "book" I had written and decided it was time to let the world know.
Re inspired with the project and the sudden need to let strangers know my business, I am going to post a "lesson" a month and update it daily with the trials and tribulations of my life in BUSINESS.

Intro to the Enlightened Graduate

This book was written to help every ambitious college graduate get a REAL understanding of post-college life in the corporate world.
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One million dollars.

That was my goal by age 25.

Nothing but dollar signs, big desks, and endless possibilities. That was all that ran through my ambitious mind during my senior year in college. People warned me it was going to take a couple of years to make my fortune. I just chuckeled and brushed them off, knowing that I was going to make my million in record time.

Once graduation was over, I wasted no time in jumping head first into the business world. Two weeks later, I landed my first job and the rude awakening of reality soon followed. My days were now planned out with an 8-5 job with a one minute lunch. Not to mention being so busy I wouldn't see daylight for days at a time.

I was starting at the bottom of the totem pole and to add more stress to my life, I was working for someone that had no idea how to succeed. How the hell was I supposed to become a business giant by learning from someone that wasn't one? The thought of failure popped into my heard for the first time, and I realized this job might be heading down shit's creek without a paddle. After a month of work, I began to realize that I had no idea of what was on the horizon, how to REALLY make money, or what the hell to do next. My expectation of being the rookie phenom right of college was quickly fading and for the first time I had doubts about my future.

I was lost; the money was not flowing, and those hundreds of stories of "life" that my father told me about in college were true: It only gets harder.

Harder!

How could it get any harder? I was a young innocent, inexperienced 22 year old, with no real idea about life's real trials and tribulations, and unaware that every assumed cliche that I had ever heard about working was in fact, true. All that I had now was acceptance that I was within the infamous "rat race" and there was no turning back.