Green on the inside
- At June 30, 2011
- By Nathan
- In Career Planning
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Water. It falls from the sky and springs up from the earth. It flows from the hills to the plains. It drains into oceans that cover most of the earth, and it is essential for life.
But what does water, clean water, have to do with the development of your career?
For many years 15,000 people regularly dumped their raw sewage into this stream, which drained into a large lake, and eventually made its way to Hudson’s Bay. It was a sad period in world history for the frogs and the fish and the people and the polar bears along the way. Now, however, the frogs and the fish have found a friend in the form of a very costly sewage treatment plant.
Nobody wants somebody else’s garbage and waste in their back yard. Although the reaction in the environmental movement is sometimes extreme, the “green, green, lima beans” as George Bush used to call them have a point. The odd inconsistency is that while many people are passionately green on the outside some appear to be apathetic about “polluting” their own souls.
May I suggest that employers would much likely prefer if you ran your character flaws, emotional issues, and selfish tendencies, etc. through a sewage treatment plant of sorts before coming to work for them. Ask someone you know and trust this simple question: “What can you see in me that you would rather not see?”
People down stream, as it were, will be really glad you did.
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