I’m never going to believe that kindness doesn’t take you places ever again
I just met with my boss for the first time for a brand new job. I’m fresh out of college, I have next to no experience in the field, and I wasn’t the only applicant for this position. By all accounts, the numbers don’t add up, but when I met with my supervisor today she told me that one thing had put me ahead.
Compassion.
I was being hired to lighten the load for an employee who was ill, and I was the candidate who’d responded to that with compassion instead of being opportunistic. It gives me a good feeling about this job, and a little bit about the world too. Kindness and compassion don’t always stack up against the ways the world can be nasty, but they’re qualities always worth exercising.
