1: Whatever the work is, do it well—not for the boss but for yourself, 2: You make the job; it doesn’t make you, 3: Your real life is with us, your family, 4:You are not the work you do; you are the person you are. I have worked for all sorts of people since then, geniuses and morons, quick-witted and dull, bighearted and narrow. I’ve had many kinds of jobs, but since that conversation with my father I have never considered the level of labor to be the measure of myself, and I have never placed the security of a job above the value of home.