Indeed CEO: The No. 1 piece of advice my grandfather gave me
This is a snippet from the weekly CNBC Make It Work newsletter, written by Ashton Jackson.
At age 15, I got my second-ever job as a cashier at a fast-food restaurant. I hated clocking in every day — the thick smell of burgers and old frying oil made me sick, and customers were often rude, especially during the lunch rush and at the drive-thru. That made it difficult to apply myself.?
But Indeed CEO Chris Hyams says even a fast-food cashier role can be fulfilling if you have the right attitude.
Growing up, his grandfather gave him a cardinal piece of career advice that he still holds on to today: “Every job is the most important job in the world, and you should treat every job as if it’s the most important job in the world.”
After graduating college, Hyams worked with young addicts and alcoholics in a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital. He later moved to Vermont and couldn’t find another role in the recovery industry, so he spent two years teaching special education at a public high school, he says.?
Hyams tried multiple other jobs, too. He worked full-time at his grandpa’s small production business while being a drummer in five bands on the side. “Tried to become a rockstar. Failed. Would do it all over again,” Hyams’ LinkedIn profile currently reads.
He went back to school, getting a master’s degree in computer science, and worked as a software developer at a tech company called Trilogy — where he rose to become vice president of product development, according to his LinkedIn profile. He launched and shuttered a tech startup before landing another VP role at Indeed in 2010.
″[My grandfather] told my brothers and I, at a very young age, that work is a sacred thing. ... It’s more than a paycheck,” Hyams says. “It’s where you find meaning and purpose in your life. ... It doesn’t matter if you’re an astronaut or sweeping the floor at NASA. [Work] is where we get pride and dignity.”
Looking back on that fast-food job, I can honestly say it wasn’t all bad. I was friendly with a lot of my coworkers and had a couple of regulars who I’d chat with on Saturday mornings as they sipped their coffee. I took pride in being the go-to ice cream cone maker.
Perhaps if I focused on those positives a bit more, I’d have been able to put the same effort into my job that Hyams puts into his, and I may have actually enjoyed coming to work.
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1 小时前When I was fourteen years old, in Aleppo city, my grandfather took me to his cloth store, in the summertime, to help him organize the store. He used to be No. #1 in sales between all his competitors on the main street of clothing products in Aleppo. Many times I have seen him sending his customers to a different new store to make them survive on their new buisness while he has a better competitor price and Quality . He told me I live on this buisness all my life: * This street is if it turns many empty stores will lose its value dynamic market * If share values between buisness are to enforce other buisness to close, it is a dummy cycle * The power of dynamic share has more values for society and people than throwing your neighbor by the stone of greedy competition. I told my grandfather, that's why you are always No. #1
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1 小时前Very helpful??
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4 小时前Wise and meaningful. The type of job we are in is not to define a person's character but his/her attitude to treat others.
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6 小时前Ur Grandfather are like my grandmother, wise souls …
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9 小时前I really love the story mainly because it means that migrate from one specific job to something really different frequently or several times in your career, is a powerful engine into a "always learning" style, always defiant yourself and always looking out of the box. If you persevere in that way you will accumulate a big experience in different fields which will be rewarded when get older in some many ways. Flexibility, adaptability, social skills and so much more. Probably with such experience you'll become a more interesting and useful person if you are willing to share your experience with your close people. Keep going!!