If You Wouldn’t Do Your Job For Free, Then Quit.

Somehow, this is pretty much how I’ve felt about work most of my life. I’ve been extremely lucky and privileged to have had jobs that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed (not that there weren’t parts about them I didn’t like doing…). Advise I got early on was to be willing to be fired for doing the right thing; while on the face of it that might seem terrible advice, what it was really saying was it’s okay to take risks, necessary  even, for the good of the company, even if the company doesn’t realize it at the time.