{"id":386,"date":"2019-09-23T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.3dbinpacking.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2023-07-12T23:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:35:14","slug":"how-i-became-a-packer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.3dbinpacking.com\/en\/how-i-became-a-packer\/","title":{"rendered":"How I became a packer. A user guide to being successful"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Albert Rybacki, the owner of 3DBinPacking.com, reveals his secret formula for being successful in business. Are intelligence and ambition enough to be successful? Is money the most important? Do you need to set long-term goals and determine strategies to achieve them? Or maybe you’d better focus on what you love doing and are best at?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
You are a member of the Mensa Poland association. What is the spread between your score and 130 IQ points?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
Albert Rybacki: I have passed the qualification test for the Mensa Society with a positive result which is at the upper end of the scale. To check precisely, I would have had to take additional tests which I’ve never bothered to do.<\/p>\n\n
Does intelligence help in life? I guess it does in programming, doesn’t it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
In programming, definitely yes. A good programmer must efficiently deal with a high level of abstraction, and have a vivid imagination at the same time. Such a combination of features allows you to create advanced algorithms and implement them usefully to improve specific tasks. You would assume that it is like in real life, but actually it sometimes goes different ways. There are moments when I would like to have a simple ON\/OFF button at hand so I could, if necessary, turn off logic functions and everything would be much easier. And for sure more pleasant … (laughs)<\/p>\n\n
You graduated as the best student of your academic year. Have you always been an “intelligent child”, a top student?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
Definitely not. Anyway, the stories of many Mensa members certify that high intelligence doesn’t always play out so well at school. School can sometimes be boring, sometimes oppressive, which may result in student’s withdrawal, and which consequently doesn’t have a positive impact on your grades. So seriously, “I activated” only during my studies when my ambition was triggered so I felt it might be really nice to achieve something in my life, to put my mark on something.<\/p>\n\n
You started as one of many programmers beginning with…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
The first thing I developed by myself was a simple CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system for customer management of my then-active computer network. It was a minor network for a housing estate, which offered radio internet just when this service was entering the market.<\/p>\n\n
You are not a beginner in the business world: before you started 3DBinPacking.com, you have had a few years shot with running your own company. Why did you decide to work for someone else?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
I started my own business as a teenager. Sometimes I was successful, sometimes not so much so. I ran various types of business – I began with the production of hamster homes which were sold in pet stores.\u00a0For a short while I was dealing with the production of gadgets for car tuning and construction work.<\/p>\n\n
The first activity involving my software education was, as I mentioned before, related to managing a small network. I made the decision to work as a programmer in an online store as I wanted to improve my programming skills and at the same time I had to earn my living somewhere. That’s how I became somebody’s employee. At that time I didn’t have any better plan for myself.<\/p>\n\n
I got sucked completely into programming. I worked a lot and learned a lot. After a while I felt so “powerful” that when the opportunity to cooperate with a British IT company appeared, I didn’t hesitate. I knew that it would be another possibility to learn something new. And a chance to get the funds I needed to develop my own project – I had already developed the first version of the “packer”.<\/p>\n\n
What triggered your decision to give your own business another shot?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
It was a coincidence. The online store in which I worked for began employment optimisation – you know how that can end up. So, thinking about my future, I started to create my own product which was a “packer”. I had high hopes for it. And I decided to start another business.<\/p>\n\n