The Value and Dignity of Work

The Value and Dignity of Work
How we approach our work—with pride or negligence—says a lot about us. Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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In the television show “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,” aired before many of my readers were born, Bob Denver, later of “Gilligan’s Island” fame, played Maynard G. Krebs, a beatnik—for young readers, think early hippie. His trademarks were a goatee and an aversion to work. Whenever someone mentioned the word, Maynard would panic, yelp “Work!” and sometimes, even drop into a faint.

Along with my siblings, then old enough to appreciate that show, I’d always laugh at Maynard’s line, although it was one we never dared try out on our parents.

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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