Seth talks about how it's okay to embrace the different paths life may offer.
Jules: Sometimes mess and chaos, open doors. My dad did not get a corporate job. He kind of went in a different path than everyone else in my family. For so long, there's just been one way to do things. And I think that it's valuable to kind of think about all the different way we do thing.
And, Jules, I really appreciate this. Sometimes mess and chaos, open doors. Yes. Absolutely beautiful observation. So that was his very sanitized look at work. So you think that my dad would pick up on this, and then that would be his, you know, his method, you know, because my dad passed this information on to me. He didn't say that he had completely adopted Uncle Ken's approach to keeping a tidy workspace. He didn't say, and this is now how I do things. My dad didn't say that, and I'll tell you why.
So, like I said, Uncle Ken, he was a VP of the Bell Phone Company before it split off into all of its different subsidiary companies. So there were quite a few VPs, and there was just sort of a company policy that that was the way things were in corporate America pre 1955, we'll say, you know, he climbed the corporate ladder in that time frame. Well, there was really one way to do things corporately, kind of a lot like faith and religion, you know. For so long, there's just been one way to do things.
And I think that it's valuable to kind of think about all the different way we do things. So my dad did not get a corporate job. He kind of went in a different path than everyone else in my family. My grandfather and his brother Ken, they thought my dad should follow the footsteps and become a businessman, maybe in the family business. You know, the family business was in furniture. Well, that's not what happened. You know, in my father's sophomore year, he became in love with language and linguistics, German specifically.
Reactions and comments are for members. Joining is free and takes a minute.
