Mark Cuban says Gen Z should think more like Jeff Bezos and stop chasing the perfect job: ‘Just get a job’—even at McDonald’s or Dairy Queen

While Mark Cuban is known today as a billionaire investor who built his fortune in tech, his early career looked a lot less glamorous. Before he finished college, he was selling trash bags, slicing deli meat, giving dancing lessons, and bartending.

Those jobs weren’t necessarily stepping stones to Silicon Valley, but they gave Cuban a look into the benefits of showing up and getting things done. Now, as Gen Z graduates face a difficult job market, Cuban has a simple message for anyone struggling to land their dream role: Stop waiting for the perfect job and start somewhere.

“Don’t get the perfect job because those are hard to find. Just get a job,” Cuban recently said on The Diary of a CEO.

That could mean taking a job at McDonald’s, where Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once worked as a teenager (as The Diary of a CEO podcast host Steven Bartlett and Cuban pointed out). Or at Dairy Queen, the fast-food chain Cuban once worked a shift. The point isn’t necessarily to stay there. It’s to show a future employer that you can take on responsibility, put in the work, and........

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