The Value of Hard Work: Lessons Learned from Working-Class Jobs
Looking back on the years of my life this morning, I was thinking it would be an interesting exercise to review my work experience from earlier in my life, before college graduation and before the true start of my professional career, and examine one thing I am grateful for from each experience. I think it is important to look back to humble beginnings and the lessons learned through hard work and sweat.
I still remember the words of one of my co-workers at a restaurant when I headed off to college: “Don’t forget your roots.” It was these working-class jobs that helped me develop a strong work ethic and provided a foundation for my professional life. For that, I am forever grateful. For those of you who also came up working in restaurants as wait staff or line cooks, can you relate to occasionally having a nightmare about a table that has a missing order, all these years later?
