{"id":1008,"date":"2008-05-16T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:33","slug":"my-favorite-pauschisms-no-job-is-beneath-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Pauschisms; No Job Is Beneath You"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been well documented that there is a growing sense of entitlement among young people today. I have certainly seen that in my classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Graduating seniors have this notion that they should be hired because of their creative brilliance. Too many are unhappy with the idea of starting at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>My advice has always been: &#8220;You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom. And when you get there, here&#8217;s what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No one wants to hear someone say: &#8220;I&#8217;m not good at sorting mail because this job is beneath me.&#8221; No job should be beneath us. And if you can&#8217;t (or won&#8217;t) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Randy Pausch in <em>The Last Lecture<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This particular Pauschism is dedicated to Number One Son and all his college friends who have returned home and started their summer jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, maybe I&#8217;ll do a series next week on the various &#8220;scut work&#8221; jobs that I had during my school years and what I learned from them.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, maybe I&#8217;ll do just that. Have a great weekend everyone.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--aa7827c04cbbc2cfd1b206949419d2fd--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been well documented that there is a growing sense of entitlement among young people today. I have certainly seen that in my classrooms. Graduating seniors have this notion that they should be hired because of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,94,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pauschisms","category-randy-pausch","category-the-last-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9407,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/9407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}