Yesterday I was having a conversation with a 31-year employee of a locally-owned service business. Business is good, and they are very financially responsible people. I was talking to him about how it’s often hard to see what's really going on in the economy from our secure bubble. To which he replied:
“Look, Troy, when I make or win a sale, I create business to bring into the company where men and women in the manufacturing plant take steel and put it in the machines that make equipment that we then sell all around the world. Then those employees take their paychecks home and they buy groceries, make house payments, and 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 others – in this particular case, with people in a completely different division of the business than he was. He also referenced the owners of the business and some of the many and varied things they do to contribute back to the community. How, at their ages, they are still engaged and still enthusiastic about being involved in business.
How can we all exercise our true inner-American?
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