“He told me I could be anything I wanted, and he’d support me, so long as I stuck to that rule. He said even if my dream was to be a garbage man, he’d support me, but if he were to drive my route, he better not see a single piece of garbage along the road. That advice has served me very well.”
“I was in middle school at work with him one day doing a sort of “shadow day.”
He told me “Don’t listen when people say ‘do what you love and you’ll never work.’ It rarely works out for anyone. Do I like what I do? I’m good at it and it pays me well enough to live how I want. I’d rather get paid what I do now to do nothing but that doesn’t happen. Do what you tolerate and what supports your lifestyle. Find fulfillment outside of work.”
I was kind of taken back by it at the time. I thought he might just be cynical. But as I got older it became more and more evident that he was correct.”
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