Looking further at the correlation of Christianity and my future business career, my time at Hometown Health gave me an example of how it can be done. Josh is in the business of comforting people recover from injuries and relieving pain. Moreover, he is also in business as a servant of God, and he runs HH with values and dedication that reflects his faith. He has inspired me in with his ability to implement his Christian life into his business/work life. He is an attentive and dedicated worker with strong knowledge, while also being a tremendous caretaker of his patients. He does not think of them as simply means to making money. Instead, he treats them as human beings in pain or discomfort and wants to do his best in taking care of them and fixing what is hurting them. I am appreciative that I was able to learn from how Josh operated his business, and will look to approach my business ventures with a similar mindset.
When I first came to Eastern, I was an unofficial entrepreneurial major with dreams of being my own boss and creating a business. My sophomore year I switched to business management with an added focus on marketing and took the classes with an entrepreneurial approach, then towards the conclusion of college I was starting to lose my interest in being an entrepreneur. My second internship was an experience that further reignited and fueled my career goal of one day being an entrepreneur and opening my own business (or businesses). When Josh created and opened his own private practice of Hometown Health, he became an entrepreneur, even though he never set out to be one. This boosted my confidence for my own entrepreneurial pursuits, witnessing someone with only a minimal amount of business schooling opening their own business that is making a positive impact. I am again interested in one day opening my own business, however I want to be positive that I am doing it for the right reasons. The right reasons for me to pursue this includes doing something I love and have passion for, that is fulfilling and will ideally benefit others. I do not want to focus simply on making money. In the past, I was focused on the idea of money when it came to starting my own business. After my years at Eastern and these internships, I realize the mistake in this mindset. As it says in Matthew 16:26, “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” All of this has made me reconsider what I want, or how I will define success for myself. It is obvious that personal success is never assured. What is not obvious is what denotes a success, or what all the various elements are that create success. Essentially, all of us on this earth have our own definition of success, while society collectively has its own definition. I think one of the major problems people my age and younger face is how fabricated these definitions of success have become. We never learn to create our own ideas of success, only knowing success as what the world tells us. The figures that define this widespread deception or misconception are the millionaires and professional athletes, think of Kobe Bryant, Bill Gates, Adele or Leonardo DiCaprio. While these are certainly “successful” people, they each are their own definition of success. As legendary martial art fighter Bruce Lee once said, “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” My goal in life is not to become a celebrity or a millionaire. My goal is to not place my focus towards gaining worldly success, instead …show more content…
I was able to observe firsthand examples of this in both my internship experiences. At both Hometown Health and PACS, the compassion of the staff and compassion in the way business was conducted was reminiscent of the examples found in Gunther’s book. This compassion I witnessed was two organizations and countless people “going beyond obligation to being motivated by love of neighbor” (Gunther pg. 11). In essence, my internships reminded me the importance of key elements Gunther points to. Josh reminded me of this through ethics and nurturing care. PACS reminded me of this through their acts of charitability and provision for the
When I first came to Eastern, I was an unofficial entrepreneurial major with dreams of being my own boss and creating a business. My sophomore year I switched to business management with an added focus on marketing and took the classes with an entrepreneurial approach, then towards the conclusion of college I was starting to lose my interest in being an entrepreneur. My second internship was an experience that further reignited and fueled my career goal of one day being an entrepreneur and opening my own business (or businesses). When Josh created and opened his own private practice of Hometown Health, he became an entrepreneur, even though he never set out to be one. This boosted my confidence for my own entrepreneurial pursuits, witnessing someone with only a minimal amount of business schooling opening their own business that is making a positive impact. I am again interested in one day opening my own business, however I want to be positive that I am doing it for the right reasons. The right reasons for me to pursue this includes doing something I love and have passion for, that is fulfilling and will ideally benefit others. I do not want to focus simply on making money. In the past, I was focused on the idea of money when it came to starting my own business. After my years at Eastern and these internships, I realize the mistake in this mindset. As it says in Matthew 16:26, “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” All of this has made me reconsider what I want, or how I will define success for myself. It is obvious that personal success is never assured. What is not obvious is what denotes a success, or what all the various elements are that create success. Essentially, all of us on this earth have our own definition of success, while society collectively has its own definition. I think one of the major problems people my age and younger face is how fabricated these definitions of success have become. We never learn to create our own ideas of success, only knowing success as what the world tells us. The figures that define this widespread deception or misconception are the millionaires and professional athletes, think of Kobe Bryant, Bill Gates, Adele or Leonardo DiCaprio. While these are certainly “successful” people, they each are their own definition of success. As legendary martial art fighter Bruce Lee once said, “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” My goal in life is not to become a celebrity or a millionaire. My goal is to not place my focus towards gaining worldly success, instead …show more content…
I was able to observe firsthand examples of this in both my internship experiences. At both Hometown Health and PACS, the compassion of the staff and compassion in the way business was conducted was reminiscent of the examples found in Gunther’s book. This compassion I witnessed was two organizations and countless people “going beyond obligation to being motivated by love of neighbor” (Gunther pg. 11). In essence, my internships reminded me the importance of key elements Gunther points to. Josh reminded me of this through ethics and nurturing care. PACS reminded me of this through their acts of charitability and provision for the