The Best Person For The Job

I was thinking about this summer when I had a job and I started to compare it to playing sports. I found out that sports are a lot like jobs. When you are trying to get a job, the owner/person who is looking for someone to work for them wants the best person for the job. I'm pretty sure they aren't looking to hire a lazy bum that doesn't even want to be at work. When playing sports the coach wants to have his best players out on the field or on the court. He/she wants to have players in that are going to get the job done and do what is asked of them. A coach is pretty much like your boss for your job. You have to work your hardest when on the field or court and if you don't it's pretty obvious who will be sitting the bench. This is like when you're working, lets say your job is to clean houses. If you don't dust everything or vacuum all the rooms then it's obvious who is going to get fired.

Having the right work ethic is the key. The definition of work ethic is: a set of values based on the moral virtues of hard work and diligence. If one person can clean a house in 1 hour and another person clean the same house in 2 hours and the same quality of work is done then more than likely the individual who cleaned the house at a faster pace will be the one keeping the job. It's the same exact way in sports... In a softball game 2 people can have the same exact hit but the one who is running their hardest around the bases will be the one getting the reward in the end. Having the right work ethic benefits a lot of people, but most of all yourself. If you can tell yourself after a game that you left it all out on the field then you can't regret anything you did. At the end of the day after working and you remember slacking off a little bit here and there you are only cheating yourself.

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall~