Spring appears to be coming early and the ice is already melting, about a week ago on a certain lake in Wisconsin 2 trucks fell through the ice on the same lake, on the same day. One was relatively close to shore and one was quite a bit further onto the lake. The story was written by the son of the owner of one of the trucks. Apparently the tow company that pulled his dads truck out was very careless and didn't care about trying to keep it in good condition because "Its already totalled". The other tow company that retrieved the other truck was very professional and knew what they were doing and managed to retrieve the truck with almost zero damage.
This brings me to my topic today, Taking pride in what you do. It doesn't matter what you do for work there is one thing that everyone should be able to do and that is take pride in their work. It doesn't matter if you build rockets for a living or sweep floors you should be trying to be the best damn rocket builder or floor sweeper there is. This story involved 2 tow drivers, one that took pride in his work, and one that was there for a paycheck. The aftermath is pretty obvious. Lets face the facts, work isn't fun.... if it was fun it wouldn't be called work, but the attitude you bring with you will directly affect what you and others will get out of it. Don't be like the asshat that was there for a paycheck, take pride in what you do, and work to be the best you can be. That is my challenge to you, take pride in your work.
Also worth noting that according to the story posted to Facebook the owner of the company himself was making comments about how the truck was going to look worse when he was done with it and the truck that came out unscathed is the one that was furthest from the shore. I spent some time reading the comments on that story and was unimpressed by how many people missed the point and instead felt the need to berate the man for driving on the ice or commented well is totaled anyway.... That doesn't matter. The point is that someone had to watch a supposed professional unnecessarily tear apart what was probably a fairly important thing to the guy.
ReplyDeleteBut anyway... Yes. I feel the same way about work :)