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2004 Soap Box Archives Graduates 05/28/04 I would like to extend my congratulations to the class of 2004 for sticking it out and getting your diplomas. It is a great accomplishment. I would also like to have a word with you, if I may. It’s a crazy world you’re about to go out in to, full of pitfalls and deception, greed and malice, deception and injustice. However, there is also great and unprecedented opportunity for those who are willing to work hard enough to attain it. You’ve heard the old saying that, “Good help is hard to find”, well it’s true and every employer is looking for it. Good help means honest help, energetic help and someone who is willing to go the extra distance, stay the extra hour, take on the difficult job and see it through until the end. Good
help means that “I can’t” isn’t even in
your vocabulary, Being good help means loyalty, keeping your own council. The employee who gossips about company business in public is not good help. To be good help you need to find a job you truly like. Something you can apply yourself to. Taking a job just because it pays well may look like a good thing in the beginning but after a while you’ll find you’re not happy and without being happy you can’t do good work. Being good help means that if you can’t get what you want, take what you can get and make what you want out of it. I am a firm believer that the station you will achieve in your work is directly tied to your worth as an employee. No matter how humble your position, if you do a good job, not a great job you are going to be noticed and promoted. Being good help means that you can and will shoulder responsibility and that you take the blame or credit for your own actions. Seeing something that needs to be done and not doing it just because nobody told you to is not being responsible. Being good help means forming your own opinions, drawing your own conclusions, not just accepting someone else’s ideas, contributing your own well thought out two cents worth to the mix. Speaking as one who has the greatest bunch of good help in my organization that I know of anywhere, I would say to you make your self valuable to your employer. Let them know that you can be depended on to go the extra mile, to burn the midnight oil, whatever it takes to get the job done. That will make you “good help” and success is just around the corner. God Bless the class of 2004 Pray for our troops What do you think? God Bless America Charlie Daniels
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