Just out of Michigan State, David R. Povlitz wasn't just looking for a job. He was searching, literally door-to-door, for a calling. On that first day of job hunting, at five in the morning, he solicited Detroit businesses--a bowling alley, a bakery, bars, office buildings--to see if they needed any kind of help whatsoever.
Nothing.
"At the end of the day," he says, "I didn't get one lead."
He did get noticed, however. By the son of the owner of a janitorial supply company. He took Povlitz un…
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