It started with a joke, but I really WAS serious.
If you saw my TV piece a week ago you may have noticed that a boo boo in the graphics department gave me a new job at the station. Specifically, THIS job--
It was just an error, one of many that happens when you're putting together two newscasts a day. But it started to make me think, and that, as we all know, can be a very dangerous thing.
It made me think so much that, in fact, I was even able to come up with THIS week's TV piece, one about that vaunted Yooper work ethic.
I discuss the ethic and why it may or may not have started, but I do know first-hand about it. In a bit I had to cut out for time, I, like all good Gen Xers, (jokingly) blamed my parents for the fact that I have four jobs. They, of course, had to set an example by owning and operating multiple automotive repair facilities, and instilled upon me and my siblings the fact that if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing right.
In fact, when I was young and just starting to work my mom would always say “Do a good job tonight” whenever I headed out. I tried. And the example they were trying to make obviously took, as I have four jobs, my sister owns three grocery stores, and my brother travels across the county delivering stuff.
That's normal, right? But it's not a surprise, especially when you think about how people in the UP approach their working lives. So even though I WON'T be heading to Washington DC as TV19's new Washington correspondent, I am part of an almost mythical set of people these days.
You know—people with a work ethic.
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