2006 Soap Box Archives

Ambitionless 08/11/06

You would never think that something as mundane as renting a car would turn into an unpleasant and frustrating task, but that's just what happened to me recently.

I had had a long and tiring flight and all I wanted to do was get my car and
be on my way and though the lines at the counter were long that was not what bothered me. It was the I wish I was anywhere but here, oh no here comes another customer attitude of the young ladies behind the counter and the unorganized way they went about business while they talked on the phone and let their attention be diverted by other things instead of all the anxious people standing in front of them waiting to spend the money which would pay their salaries.

I see it all over the service industry these days, young people who put
little if anything of themselves in their work. They're surly unhelpful and
sometimes arrogant, and if their attitudes don't change in the next few
years they'll be stuck in a menial job and probably blame society for
holding them back.

The truth of the matter is that in America the work ethic is being buried in
a one size fits all, politically correct, non-competitive fallacy of sloth and generational welfare dependence.

The great society has turned into the great disaster as the third and fourth
generations join the welfare rolls and drugs and gangs and street crime
flourish and the only way to break it is for the new generation to learn
that if you're going to get anywhere you've got to paddle your own canoe.

It is my belief and contention that anyone with normal intelligence can make
something out of themselves if they're willing to exert the two magic
ingredients, sweat and good will.

No matter how humble your job may be, if you're willing to put forth the
effort, go the extra mile, be the first one to get there and the last one to
leave and all the while putting forth an attitude of I'm glad to be here
and I'm going to show you I'm the best you've got. Somebody in authority is going to notice you and mark you as a valuable employee.

Being a valuable employee makes you worth something to the people you work for and that can translate into raises and promotions.

It all comes down to attitude, what do you want out of life and just how
badly do you want it? Life's treasures are never found in the middle of the
road, they're always out there where the going is rough and the way is
longer and there will always be the few who are willing to expend the extra
time and energy it takes to go and find them.

There is an old saying that goes, Good things come to those who wait.
Allow me to amend that to read, Good things come to those who come to
work.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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