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Apprentice in denial
« on: May 14th, 2004, 7:04pm » |
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Apprentice in denial
Katrina Witham
13may04
THE Apprentice's Sam Solovey says the series taught him it is OK to be misunderstood by people. The show captures the plight of 16 applicants in America's biggest job interview with Donald Trump.
The cocky 28-year-old drew attention to himself in the first episode after he tried to sell a cup of homemade lemonade to a New York pedestrian for $1000 in a bid to make a quick dollar in a challenge.
The stunt immediately made him unpopular and an outsider with his teammates, although he says he still had confidence in himself.
"People who are misunderstood and unpopular at first are often those who have the greatest ideas and do really well later in life," Solovey says.
"I'd rather throw an idea out there and drive everybody crazy than say nothing at all.
"I'd say I just had a struggle that a lot of people have in the workforce, where you have ideas and they are frozen out because they are different."
While the series has wrapped in the US, Australian viewers get to see Sam's work in a couple of episodes to come. In the beginning, Trump was undecided about Solovey's outlandish tactics and gave the risk-taker the benefit of the doubt.
However, it did not take long for him to became convinced the Sam-meister showed a lack of teamwork and leadership qualities.
After sending Solovey down the dreaded elevator, Trump's adviser told him it had been the board's easiest decision.
Solovey, however, did not go quietly and asked producers to change the show's outline and make it "Team Sam" versus the other applicants.
"I saw it was a job interview and I very much wanted it so I was devastated," Solovey says. "I didn't want to leave the building and I thought: 'What can I do to figure out a way around this?'
"So I wanted them to put me on my own against the men and women."
For some strange reason, the idea was not adopted and the show went on as usual.
Despite not gaining the top job, thick-skinned Solovey is so confident he believes his stint on the reality show is just the tip of the iceberg and better things are to come. "I've always known there was something big in store for me and I am sure being a part of The Apprentice is not even it," he says.
Apart from being recognised in public and doing the odd motivational speech and television appearance, life has not changed much for the Washington DC local.
After his 15 minutes of fame, however, Solovey says there is one bit of advice from Trump he will never forget: "He said be passionate and love what you do and if you don't love what you do then do something else."
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