When I was a young teenager, about 14, I was already ready to work. My father was a dairy man and he had been working his entire life. For him, getting up at 5 a.m. and working a couple of hours before I went to school, and then     more after school until there was not enough     to see, were normal.
My father considered putting good work ethics in me to be very       . He began to show me these, not through     , but through his actions. He would not     a job until it was done. He     put his all into everything he did. However, he showed me this not just in working, but in everything. Like when I was in soccer, I wanted to     a game once, and he explained to me that I had made a     and that even if I just skipped one game, then I did not       to play the rest of the games.
So the day I started my first job at the age of 14, I was       to show my father that I could do it well, and that I was not going to     . My entire     was to  make my father proud of me. I knew that        I did, he would not say it in words, but he would show it. My first job was doing       for a company. As most of you know, construction is not an easy job, especially being so     . When someone as young as I started working, they would either     or get stronger. I got stronger. I worked the     I had been taught and I gave that day everything I had. In the end, my boss was     . He even called to tell my parents what a good worker I was, and my parents’ eyes     . From that day on I have worked every job to my full     , because that day defined(界定) my life. It defined how I was going to work, and I will always stick to it in the rest of my life.

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