As I navigated my way through a twenty-five year career in the United States Navy (prior to my more recent adventures as a university instructor), I learned slowly but surely the wisdom of your "Thought for the Day." There is nothing wrong with working for "masters"--which too many people balk at doing--and it teaches one a great deal (along the way from the bottom to the top in the career ladder); for example, one learns that humility rather than arrogance is one of the most important leadership traits. To turn your "Thought for the Day" into a different direction, I would say that a person who bitterly resents and resists "masters" is almost doomed to remain a "slave." Somewhere in that revision is an important lesson about contemporary society.
As I navigated my way through a twenty-five year career in the United States Navy (prior to my more recent adventures as a university instructor), I learned slowly but surely the wisdom of your "Thought for the Day." There is nothing wrong with working for "masters"--which too many people balk at doing--and it teaches one a great deal (along the way from the bottom to the top in the career ladder); for example, one learns that humility rather than arrogance is one of the most important leadership traits. To turn your "Thought for the Day" into a different direction, I would say that a person who bitterly resents and resists "masters" is almost doomed to remain a "slave." Somewhere in that revision is an important lesson about contemporary society.
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