From pizza joint bus boy to Yahoo CEO: Jim Lanzone on how to do hard things and not to be afraid of them

I had a lot of odd jobs growing up. I was a bus boy at a pizza place in college; I worked at a bookstore; I was a clerk at a bankruptcy law firm; and I did cold calls for Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley) trying to get people to buy bonds. I even worked as an English tutor in Barcelona for a little while after I graduated from college. And then, I did what a lot of people who have no idea what they want to do with their lives do: I went to law school, at Emory. Luckily, I met my wife there, but…