Thursday, December 23, 2010
A clean conscience makes for a great job
The difference between a good job and a great job is all about how it makes you feel.
When this particular contestant was being put through the rigorous and, frankly, terrifying interview process, which sees the final five interrogated, vivisected and grilled by a number of Lord Sugar’s associates and henchmen, she explained her ambitions in terms of wanting to “move on” from cleaning to something “better”.
I was moved by the way one of the interviewers told her that she needn’t think of herself as “running a cleaning company”. Why not instead, he said, think of herself as a managing director?
I was talking about this with colleagues recently. We all agreed that our jobs are great because we’re committed to doing something that makes people happy: allowing them to save money on their car insurance for young drivers.
Yeah, some jobs seem great, they might make you a quick buck, but unless they make you feel good about what you’re doing, chances are they’ll have pretty low mileage.
Image © Steve Greer via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
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posted by Fuse @ 6:50 AM 
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