"How I got with the program"

What he most loved about the office jobs he had is what you learn on the job. It's personally relevant, a person indeed matures in the course of a career in an interesting profession. For example, if someone has some criticism of you, something you might usefully learn from, which would also make you a more successfully worker in your highly skilled field, they will of course tell you, and that helps to make these careers so fulfilling. This is one why temping is so rewarding. But it’s the way they tell you that is so refreshingly surprising, illuminating in ways that ordinary speech almost never is. Basically, the people you work for will give you more work if they like your performance (and personality) and less if they don't. But they are far too courteous and "professional" like the genteel people at a country club resort, to actually say anything that be much clue to what they are thinking. This, he reasoned, does marvels for your ability to fine tune your judgment and taste. After all, you acquire a terrific sense of what works well and what doesn't. And this happens without any of the only seemingly "interesting" discussions that callow young people might yield to in late in the day in their college environment. It is far more efficient if people learn from sanctioning their behavior: reward if you do good work, a shock or reprimand if you don't. And, marvelous as it makes things happen so smooth and easily, it doesn't even require much thought. Anyway, they always give you a heads up so that you know what are the important points to keep in mind, often laid out in a presentation that lists them. I am so glad, he thought, that I learned to be a "professional" in the American corporate business world.