Our lives are peppered with mentors, bosses, colleagues and teachers who have helped us with our professions. But I bet you're like me and got your first career lesson from family.
I'll never forget mine. I think of it almost daily around the holidays.
For no other reason than that he wanted to, my father would regularly write up the results of my 11-year-old youth soccer matches and submit them to our hometown newspaper. Like all good community papers back in the '80s, the paper printed my dad's three-paragraph reports verbatim. My father later told me the only thing he made sure to do was by season's end reference every player on my team. He always included the names of a few kids from the opposing team, too.
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