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I grew up in a tiny Baltimore row house in a faraway mountain area. My parents provided the necessities of life.but they couldn’t give much more. If I asked my father for a pair of jeans, he would say, “If you want them, make the money and buy them yourself .” He wasn’t being mean; he just couldn’t afford them. From age 12 on, I did part-time jobs after school.
When I graduated from high school, I joined the navy. Soon I was in a boot camp at Parris Island, S. C., where I learned that life in the navy centered around completing daily
tasks . These could be anything from cleaning the camp to conducting mock(模拟的) battles. Completing these tasks successfully required discipline, team-work and responsibility. It didn’t
matter whether you were black, white or Asian; everyone worked together for the good of the company.
I went on to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy and later became an officer in the navy. The part of my job I enjoyed most was the comseling(咨询) meeting I held with the family members of the men and women in my charge , trying to help them deal with the long periods of separation . These proved popular and word of them spread. Before long I was being asked to give encouraging speeches to business groups, educators and keds across the country.
But I consider the boot camp my first real job , and my life is still guided by the
important lessons I hearned there. It taught me discipline, friendship and the pride related to setting a task every day and working hard to achieve it.
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2007-06-30 14:13:42
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