· The best job is often the one you have.
· The challenge is to make it the one you love.
In high school I volunteered to work in a Headstart program, teaching after school classes to inner city youth: that got me interested in helping others. The next year, a family friend invited me to spend a workday with him in his office at a local factory: he was the Personnel Director and gave me my first introduction to careers in what would become known as Human Resources. Based on those experiences, I enrolled in Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, building on the realization that I had been made for that particular kind of work. And my career in the hospitality and gaming industry gave me ample opportunities to fulfill that heartfelt desire to help others. Everyone who loves what they do should take time to show and explain it to kids in their communities – that kind of exposure is invaluable in helping them learn about career options and possibilities available to them. Talk to your company about creating programs to give young people information about the kinds of careers available there. Some may opt for vocational training; others may seek to obtain related degrees. Either way, you’ll help people discover what they’re cut out for – and the seeds you plant just might inspire them to join your company. That’s a great way to pay it forward today.
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207 – 1273): 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
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