Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Choose to learn. We all pay the tuition, but we may not all get the education.

I guess many school teachers and government employees and just plain folks never say this to themselves. I always did, but perhaps that explained my mediocre career in government service. I was too inquisitive, too exploratory, too consumed by keeping pace with technology to pay attention to the political maneuvers inside the supposedly apolitical civil service.

There are days when I regret how I learned daily. There are more days when I don’t regret it. I suppose we all have choices all days. I encourage the managers and non-managers out there to notice and things that may be important, and learn about them.