Chapter 51 - No Job Is Beneath You by Azalea Zarlenga https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch en-us 2018-06-06 13:05:17 UTC 2023-03-17 00:19:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png "You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom. And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail." (pg. 168-169) 20zarlengaa https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v/wish/265870389 If you're going to get a job one day (like being a mailman), you need to know what you're doing and how you're going to do it, otherwise, you might actually get fired. ]]> 2018-06-06 13:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v/wish/265870389 Summary 20zarlengaa https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v/wish/265878209 Randy Pausch talks about the young people that feel entitled and how they feel like any job is below them. He says that the seniors who graduated have a notion that they should be hired because of their creative brilliance. When the ETC students were hired for internships, they would often ask the firms to give feedback about the students. Their bosses usually didn't have anything bad to say about the students, but when they did give negative feedback, it was about how the students were too big for their britches or that they were already eyeing their corner offices. Pausch starts telling a story of when he was 15-years old and he was working at an orchard. He made a comment about the job being below the teachers to his dad and his dad said that there is no job below anyone. He listened to his dad, even though he didn't like the job, and kept hoeing the strawberries.]]> 2018-06-06 13:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v/wish/265878209 Lesson 20zarlengaa https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v/wish/265878469 This chapter taught me that in order to succeed is to take little baby steps by starting at the bottom and working your way up. You should also keep yourself grounded as you're dreaming of bigger achievements. I think that this is a really good chapter and it teaches a very important lesson on being entitled to any job.]]> 2018-06-06 13:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v/wish/265878469 "He believed manual labor was beneath no one. He said he'd prefer that I worked hard and became the best ditch-digger in the world rather than coasting along as a self-impressed elitist behind a desk"(pg. 169) 20zarlengaa https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v/wish/266345485 His dad believes that hard work will make you a better person and that you should be less entitled to anything. He knows that no job is beneath anyone and working hard will pay off in the future.]]> 2018-06-08 17:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v/wish/266345485 "Their bosses almost never had anything negative to say about their abilities or their technical chops. But when we did get negative feedback, it was almost always about how the new employees were too big for their britches. Or that they were already eyeing the corner offices." (pg. 169) 20zarlengaa https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v/wish/266346324 The new employees were working very well in their jobs, but they were too arrogant about where they should be and set their standards too high.]]> 2018-06-08 17:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20zarlengaa/mkxgxxqnvu1v/wish/266346324