Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Kids today are anxious to move one to something better. That frustrates us old folks. We have a solution, if we choose it.

This is one of things that bothers us old people about young adults:

They want to move up and move on and do something else (too quickly)

They haven’t worked long enough in one spot to have earned the right or something to make the move. When I started working, I knew a little about the one spot where I worked, and that was it. I did not push anyone to let me move on and up because I didn’t know what else existed.

The difference between us when we were their age and them today is they can see. Technology allows them to see the rest of the world. They want to move on because they know that this one spot is not the entire world.

Do you want them to stay with you in this spot to help you produce? You have to make this one spot better. That is my challenge—make this one spot better. The choice is mine.