Yesterday, I was having a conversation with a 31-year employee of a locally-owned services business. Business is good and they are very financially responsible people, and I was talking to them about how it is having a hard time seeing what's really going on in the economy from our bubble. To which he replied in this fashion: “Look, Troy, when I make a sale or win a sale, I create business to bring into a company where men and women in the manufacturing plant take steel and put it in the machines that make equipment that we sell all around the world. Then they take those paychecks home and they buy groceries and they make house payments and they move their lives ahead one month at a time. Now what is wrong with that?”
It was really fun to see someone so enthusiastic about their job as an employee, and about extending that down to just how connected he was with the people in this particular case in a completely different division of the business than he was in. He also referenced the owners of the business and some of the many and varied things they do to contribute back to the community, and how at their ages, they are still engaged and still enthusiastic about being involved in business. How can we all exercise our true inner-Americans?
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