Ginni Rometty
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And to me, the lesson was, you know, look, every minute of the day, you won't love your job.
But in the end, you do have to be passionate, at least about parts of your job, what you do.
And it was to me a lesson between a job and a career.
And I had a great job at General Motors.
In fact, I took a pay cut to go to IBM.
But I then had a career at IBM.
And that to me was it was a really important lesson to learn when I was a young 20 year old.
Very interesting.
And I picked that word on purpose.
It's a characteristic.
And by the way, I have to tell you something about mentors.
To me, I'm not sure anyone ever said they were my mentor.
My view as a mentor is anyone you can learn from.
So I frankly think of you as a mentor to me.
There were things I admired about you and customer service when you were a client of mine.
Therefore, I consider you a mentor.
So
That, in my view, anyone you were willing to learn for would usually adopt you, by the way, if you were willing to learn from them.
So I can name countless mentors.
I don't know, Dan, if you felt the same way about it.