SMALL JOBS DO NOT EXIST
The quality and care that you put into your work is one of the most important topics of your life. Roger Ferguson Jr. (president and CEO of TIAA-CREF) shares a life lesson about this that definitely caught my attention (“How Did I Get Here?: Robert Ferguson Jr.” Bloomberg Businessweek , 4/20/15–4/26/15, p. 84):
“ There’s no job too small to do well. ”
Some things should travel with every job regardless of the apparent size of that job. Ultimately, there are no small jobs; there are only small people. The big person understands that every job worth doing is worth doing well.
Your commitment to the job, your ethics, your passion for success, your attention to detail, your integrity, and your professionalism all travel with your job. They travel with the job because they travel with you. You will be remembered in that job not necessarily because of the job itself, but because of the things you brought to it. The job is always the same. It is what you bring to it for which people will remember you.
What are the things for which you want to be remembered?
