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1. Be accountable. If you muck something up, find out quick how to fix it and get it done. Don’t ever try to hide it or pretend you didn’t do it. The truth will come out and at that point, it ain’t pretty. Growing up, if dad found out that I had been hiding my D- in Social Studies, I was spending the next couple of weeks indoors studying and doing random chores.
2. Manage your clients expectations. My clients, as part of the Operations department, are the staffers. They can be at times both easy and difficult to please but overall, I enjoy working with them. This goes along with being accountable. If my dad didn’t already know that I could get good grades, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have been so outraged when he found out that I’d done poorly. Nevermind the fact that I knew my grade 2 weeks before he did and didn’t bother to warn him.
3.Work hard and play hard. There are days when I come home from work and all I can muster the energy to do is crawl into my jammies and colapse on the couch. But we make up for it. There are also those days that I stumble in to work right at 8:30 and try to work off a hangover.
4. Deliver when promised. No one likes to have to ask where something is. If you promised it, deliver it. No excuses. If you aren’t going to meet your deadline, work harder or go to them immediately and let them know. If I tell my son that I’ll buy him Halo 3 by November 1st, there’s no way he’s going to let me get away with getting it on the 2nd.
5. Not many people are cut out for the Advertising world. Ours is a beast of it’s own. I cannot necessarily relate this one to the outside world, but it has taugh me a lot about myself. I’m more of a work-a-holic than I thought I was. I’m a perfectionist. I don’t like people that spend a lot of time chatting when they should be working. We all have to stop some times and visit, it’s a needed break in a high pace environment. I spend quality time wandering the office getting to know the staff and signing them up to bring food they don’t really want to have to cook. But this is also why I don’t get all of my stuff done like I’d like to.
6. Working more than 13 hours in one day makes you lose your mind. A conversation I just had with a coworker?? Me: Gar He: Yar Me: Ha! He: Ba! He needs to go home. I’m getting worried. Remind me to buy him booze some time.
7. 80% Business, 20% Heart. At home it should be the opposite. 80% Heart, 20% Business.
8. When in doubt, talk to Darryl. The man has all the answers. What can I say. In my personal life?? Yeah, I have a Darryl, it’s just not the same one. And he has a different name….but you know what I mean. (Do I even know what I mean?? Not sure. I may have to explore this one more at a later date.)
9. Get up and go talk about it. Email and texting are my preferred methods of contact with humans. I just don’t do well with people expecting me to drop what I’m doing to talk. Its so much easier to answer all questions at once when I get to it. These things can be misread though, so sometimes, you just have to walk all the way upstairs and talk to people. It really does work wonders is all I’m sayin’.
10. Booze is a gift from God.
11. YES!! Thank you Greg. #11. Believe or leave.