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| February 19, 2006
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Work Ethic: A belief in and devotion
to hard work, duty, thrift, self-discipline, and responsibility.
It is commonly said that your childhood is the best years of your life.
However, many adolescence find the transition between grade school and high
school difficult. Why? I believe that middle childhood is so difficult, because
society fails to adequately prepare its youth. Society often depicts growing
up as one big party, but it fails to show real life consequences for real
life actions. If a student chooses to have more fun than they chose to study,
the consequence will be bad grades. Society fails to teach kids how to make
good choices to receive positive consequences. Contrary to popular belief;
good things in life are not free, they are earned. If you want good grades,
you have to earn them. If you want to run a mile in under eight minutes, you
have to practice. By the time most students reach high school they have figured
this concept out and either decide to work or decide to fail. The choice
is present to each of us individually. I cannot choose for you, your teachers
cannot choose for you, and your parents cannot choose for you. The choice
is yours. You can decide to work hard to reach your goals or you can decide
you do not care. Whatever choice you make will affect your future.
Work ethic is how hard you work when no one is watching.
Work ethic is a choice.
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