Posted on 09/15/2020 6:10:57 AM PDT by simpson96
What sort of traits does former First Lady Michelle Obama look for in young people who want to work for her? Willingness to put in the "grunt work" with a positive attitude, for starters.
On a recent episode of Spotify's "The Michelle Obama Podcast," the former first lady spoke to Valerie Jarrett, her former boss while working for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, and a senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Obama recalled career advice that she recently gave her daughter Malia, 22.
"We were talking about having impact, and how young people —and I know our generation talks about it — a lot of times, a lot of young people want it really fast, like I want to make change," Obama said.
In truth, success requires climbing the ladder and putting in the "grunt work," she said.
For Obama, the young people who have been working with her the longest are those who began "doing some of the grunt-iest jobs," she said on the podcast. For example, those who handled small tasks like volunteering to pick up speakers at the airport or doing "advance work" to prepare sites ahead of time for appearances, "which is some of the hardest stuff," she said.
Today, these are the people who Obama trusts to manage her schedule, run book tours or work for her production company, Higher Ground.
"Watch how young people do the work that they don't want to do, the thankless work that's not so fun," Obama said. "Those are the people that I look to and go, 'Huh, that person's ready to be pushed, that person wants to do more. I'm ready to invest in them.'"
Jarrett agreed, adding that "attitude matters," she said. "And effort, and energy, and you know being a cheerful spirit even on a bad day."
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Says the pretender queen from on high, who had everything handed to her.
Submission and anger.
Is this why they’ve taken Ellen DeG down?
I bet some super tough questions were asked. If Michelle can handle a tough interviewer like Jarrett, maybe she's ready to step up and replace Joe.
Sounds like the qualities of whiteness....
Great. One commie interviewing another commie. Hard hitting interview. Yeah.
Say, aren’t hard work and positive attitudes condemned as symbols of whiteness?
she hires people that can lift her without a weight belt?
In case of falls.
the CNBC reporting of this rubbish is nauseating.
Melanin and internal genitalia?...
Did Malia do grunt work for Harvey Weinstein?
“Work for her?” What is it she does, actually?
skin color and rabid anti american attitude
Yeah...She grunted under him....
Michelle isn’t any more full of BS than Ellen or Oprah. The same ditzes who gobbled up their cotton candy will gorge themselves on hers...and still crave MORE.
“The leech has two daughters, Give! and Give!”—Solomon, Proverbs 30:15
The females have to be built like a 1960s Chicago Bears linebackers. Constantly flairing nostrils and a disdane look in the eyes. This is for starters.
‘Gruntiest???
As children, my cousins used to refer to pooP as ‘grunty’.
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