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The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

And to me, the lesson was, you know, look, every minute of the day, you won't love your job.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

But in the end, you do have to be passionate, at least about parts of your job, what you do.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

And it was to me a lesson between a job and a career.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

And I had a great job at General Motors.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

In fact, I took a pay cut to go to IBM.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

But I then had a career at IBM.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

And that to me was it was a really important lesson to learn when I was a young 20 year old.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

Very interesting.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

And I picked that word on purpose.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

It's a characteristic.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

And by the way, I have to tell you something about mentors.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

To me, I'm not sure anyone ever said they were my mentor.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

My view as a mentor is anyone you can learn from.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

So I frankly think of you as a mentor to me.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

There were things I admired about you and customer service when you were a client of mine.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

Therefore, I consider you a mentor.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

So

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

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.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

So I can name countless mentors.

The Mentors Radio Show
465. How Mentors helped Ginni Rometty become Fortune’s “#1 Most Powerful Woman”, with Host Dan Hesse 

I don't know, Dan, if you felt the same way about it.