I painted our trailer yesterday with a few volunteers from the Mid Coast School of Technology. I found real pleasure in working with these young students. They were in the Metal Fabrication class learning to weld, yet they clearly took seriously this mundane job of painting the trailer that they were a part of building for this community.
These students had that increasingly rare quality called a work ethic. They made the decision that what they were doing was as important as the actual welding of the trailer. They made the decision to find every crack and corner of that trailer and lay the epoxy primer thoroughly where it was needed the most. They crawled on the floor, without being asked, to double check the underside. They didn’t stop til the job was done.
No one is born with a work ethic. Nor can one learn it out of a book. It cannot be learned outside of direct experience. How fortunate we are in this community to have schools that offer that direct experience.
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