Work Ethic
First and foremost, don't show up at a job interview looking like a slob. Wear clean clothes, don't slouch, look interested. Convey the attitude that you would be a valued and dependable addition to the workforce. Don't chew gum and punctuate every sentence with, "You know." Don't express what you want from the company, instead state what you can do for the company.
Once you are hired, be reliable. Show up for work on time. One warning, I speak from experience, during your working life you will work for many supervisors and with many co-workers that you will think of as being stupid people. GRIN, many of these will have the same thought about you. Just remember your position on the totem pole and don't let feelings get in the way of your job performance.
Another thing, whatever field that you decide to make a career in, education never stops. Always keep up to date on latest advances in your picked field. Home study courses, seminars, magazines or just research on the internet. My original training in electronics was with vacuum tubes. If I had sat back then and said, "Ok, I'm an electronics technician now.", my place in the workforce would have soon been gone. Along came transistors, then integrated circuits ( IC CHIPS). I had to keep up with my chosen field or be left behind. Few people realize that their desktop or laptop home computer has more power then the best computer of the world war two era.
Even though I've been retired for five years and don't have access to the resources that I had while working. I still try to keep up with advances in computers on the internet. True, I can't afford some of the whiz bang programs or buy a new computer every year. You would be surprised what you can find on the internet as shareware or freeware programs. Of course now I'm more interested in home computing and family ties now. I've got my whole house wired with a home network now. My whole point is, and you should instill this in young people, as fast as the world changes you should never consider as education being complete.
Hookay, one more point. Don't ever be ashamed of what you do for a living. Everybody depends on everybody, there is no ELITE job. I ended up being a technician and found that engineers with college degrees depended on me. I would be a fool not to count on electricians to install wiring in my house or depend on carpenters to add additions to my house both of which I would have no idea of how to do. I, just like doctors, college professors, politicians depend on other people. Auto mechanics, retailers like grocery stores including the clerks there, sanitation workers, road workers to maintain streets and highways. It doesn't matter what you do, you have to keep up with advances with technology and equipment in your field.
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