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Subject: Re: Work Ethic
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Date: Thu, 30-May-85 04:17:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 30 04:17:55 1985
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	For those of you who are debating this one, the best thing
I have ever seen on this subject is the article "A Message to
Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard.  The only place I _know_ to find it is
Wood's _Treasury of the Familiar,_ but I understand it is rather
widely circulated.  I would punch it in, but it's several pages.

A relevant quote (but get the whole thing anyway):
	"  The point that I wish to make is this: McKinley
	gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia;
	Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?"
	   By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should 
	be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed
	in every college of the land.  It is not book-
	learninng younng men need, nor instruction about
	this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which 
	will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act 
	promptly, concentrate their energies: do the 
	thing -- 'Carry a message to Garcia.'"


	Anyway, what I seem to be saying here, is what self-
respecting person can take on a job, accept the responsibilities
and rewards that come with it, and fail to do at least 100%
of the job, let alone to do a better job than that "required" of
him, and thereby advance.  In any job there is room for the
*mind* of the producer to improve the product.


					*-BlacklighT-*