When I was younger, my dad was always advicing us on one thing or the other. He does that almost every night and sometimes, we feel he’s doing too much. Well, we’re grown now and we realized everything he used to tell us back then. We may feel he was doing too much but those things are being of help to us.
Something happened in my workplace yesterday. One of the bosses came from the headquarters to check how far we have gone with our jobs and they went to each classes. For those who don’t know, I work in a school and a very big one at that. The supervisors came and when it was the turn of our unit, the checked two classes first before mine. When they got to my class, they realized how accurate things were and they had to go back to the previous classes that one of their charts were wrong while ours is correct.
At the end of the day, I received an accolade from my boss. Not just me but including my class teacher. We work more than other classes because we are the year tutors coupled with the fact that we have more pupils to attend to in our class. I was happy and it is still getting to me now, lol. This madd me remember two of those advices that my dad used to give us back then…
My father’s advice
Firstly, my dad used to tell us that what is worth doing is worth doing well. As long as you have signed up for something or agreed to do a particular thing, you should be able to give in your best. It may even be something you don’t like. For example, I don’t really like my present job but for the fact that I have decided to do it, I promised to give in my best not because I want to impress anyone but because I have conscience and I won’t feel good if I don’t do what I am supposed to do rightly.
Another advice my dad used to give us is that no matter where we are, someone is looking at us so we should always be upright. I’m sure we all know that these two advices work hand in hand. This also made me remember the same yesterday that our bosses complained about a particular staff. Who could have known that a lot of people were observing her but didn’t say anything until the supervision came up? So you should always do the right thing and always have in mind that someone is somewhere maybe in one corner looking at you.
These two advices have helped me a lot especially the first one. I always love to do my things well and right and it has also boosted my reputation in a positive way.
Anyway, I’m grateful to my dad for always sitting my siblings and I down every night to advice us.
I’m sure he’d be so proud of me.