Jamie Oliver writing about his new series the Dream School and the pupils he wants to create opportunities for, referred to a willingness to graft. We all have to sell what we have. Some are lucky, born rich and all they have to do is sell their connection to a past wealth. Some are born intellectually endowed and they have a fertile mind to sell. Their challenge being to settle on which academic field best utilises their particular brain capabilities, juggling mathematical formula, dissecting or crafting tight sentences or creatively investigating and deducing from scant evidence. Others are just born with a well endowed body and have no qualms in selling that for as long as it lasts. We are all out to offer a unique selling point that makes our offer stand out from the crowd, to be irresistible to the employing, hiring, income generating select few.
Some have the gift of creativity to offer but the mass of us are short on such gifts. Perhaps we have a nurturing caring nature and can find a niche there. What Jamie said made sense. The most of us have no particular skill or gift but what we do have and can offer is the willingness to graft. To put in the hours of effort and determination, to learn from the tasks presented and thus makes ourselves indispensable and desirable to be employed. It takes all sorts to make this world go round, we cannot not all be at the top. The grinding mass of everyday work is just as, or as equally important, to keeping the wheels turning as some flash of inspiration.
We all need each other and are dependant on each other, so we all can succeed.
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