Taking Ownership of Your Work

Taking Ownership of Your Work
By viewing your job, even if it is a minor position, as your very own enterprise, you set a course for success. Fei Meng
Jeff Minick
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During a recent visit with my brother, a retired chemist, he shared some advice that his first supervisor gave him over 35 years ago.

“I’d been there for a few months,” Doug said, “when the guy called me into his office one day and told me I should think of my job and my work in the lab as my own little store in a mall, that I could do whatever I wanted with it. I could grow it and make it successful, or I could just put in my time and let it languish. It was all up to me.”

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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