Even though you may think that the hours you spent during college reading 500 pages a day, writing endless essays, and seeing the sun rise as you studied for your multiple choice exam the next day, may have qualified you for a career as a top-exec straight out of college, prepare to be surprised. Unfortunately “great last minute studier, can whip out an essay overnight, and able to study for 3 finals simultaneously are not qualifications for a position.
After college you will probably become very familiar applying for jobs that include ”Assistant, Jr, Intern and entry-level” somewhere in the title. As you start your first job, it can be very frustrating working late hours, being on call weekends, running to the store to grab your boss a coffee, or becoming master of the stapler and copy-machine. However realize that nearly every top executive and successful person has started in a position such as yours, and climbed from the bottom up. Use positions such as these to prove yourself and show that you can remain positive even while performing seemingly pointless and annoying tasks.
I love this quote by Martin Luther King, because it reminds us that no matter what job we have we should perform it to the best of our abilities. Remember that the harder you work, the faster you will be moved up and the better review and reference you will get in the future.
Tags: Daily Inspiration, working
I think that is a great quote from Martin Luther King Jr. but I am curious where you orrigially got it from. Do you think you could help me out with where you got it from? I am trying to write a paper and would like to use the quote but i need the original source to cite it. Thanks!
-Justin
You can find the quote at http://thinkexist.com/quotation/if_a_man_is_called_to_be_a_street_sweeper-he/339724.html
This is a beautiful and powerful quote. One I will always love. But I dont believe its primary purpose is to encourage people to work harder in order to move up. In fact the importance of moving up in the world is the lie that Reverand King is attempting to stop. What I believe he is telling us is to forget status, forget money, and even anyone and everything that tells you that a succesful life is defined by what you do and the life you create. He’s teaching us that we are all the Beetoven of something. We are all the Shakespeare of something. We are all the Michaelangelo of something.. and that we are to find that gift and regardless of how much money it pays or what society thinks of it, do it and do it well! True fullfillment and happiness is found in giving to the world what you were created to do since it is only you and no one else that can give such a gift to others.