Greatest lesson I learned from my father

My father works as a professor in university and part-time as the sales director of a multinational pharmaceutical company. He always manages to handle everything at the same time, and is quite successful in both of his jobs. He is an early person, and always act immediately to take on any new tasks and challenges. I believe this is the biggest magic secret to his success in career and life, and the most valuable thing for me to learn from.

About 20 years ago, a pharmaceutical multinational company was urgently hiring a sales manager at a salary 8 times higher than average. My father and other teachers in the same office saw the job posting on newspaper, and all of them were interested. However, in order to have an interview, they had to take train to another city in 5 days. My father bought tickets quickly and got his 2-day leave approved by his university while others were just simply thinking about the job. The tickets were sold out just on the following day. He was hired eventually though his colleages were actually more experienced and more competitive than him at that time. After he took on his new job, he had to travel to different cities. Sometimes he gave lectures immediately after arriving back from another city. He plans everything early ahead and always gets everything prepared on time.

“Be early”, a magic secret to success, has helped me a lot in real life. Plan early, act early. Thank you dad for teaching me this.