LIfe as I know it

Life as I know it changes daily. Weekly. Yearly. One thing that doesn't change is work ethic.

My dad was the hardest worker I have ever met. He taught me so much without every saying a word about work ethic. He taught me by example. I saw him get up before dawn and go to a job that he worked at for 25 years. He never called in sick and he worked hard every single day. He worked at Campbell Soup. He wasn't the CEO. He wasn't the manager. He wasn't a "big wig" as he we would say. He was just hard worker. He was known as a jokester and loved to make his employees laugh. I like to think I learned that from him also.  It was not a lavish job, it wasn't a job that made him rich. It was a job though and he taught me that no matter what your job is that you should take pride in it. He instilled in me that if you are scrubbing floors or a CEO of a corporation that you should always work hard and strive to be the best at what you are doing. We work to pay bills and we work to make a life for ourselves. I believe that my generation especially wants to  make as much money as possible with doing as little work as possible. I mean don't get me wrong that would be awesome to make a ton of money doing hardly anything but its not reality. To be successful to me is not about how much money one makes but how well you do the job. You can be a rich CEO and not be successful. You can also be a janitor and be completely successful. Life is what you make it and I wish that more people would realize this. Happiness isn't money. Happiness is smiles from your family, memories with them and knowing that no matter what your job is that the little kids waiting on you at home love you no matter what. Having family to me is having the most successful life there is.

I wish that I could thank my dad for teaching me what he did. I owe him so much and wouldn't be the person I am today without him.