Wealth? It Comes Not Just from the Job
Do genetic factors or environmental factors influence employee proactivity ? A scientist recently studied identical twins to find out, according to newswise.com. And he found that it's a little of both. I've always been a very hard worker, frequently if not always getting writing assignments done before deadline. However, in my haste I often make small mistakes. I go looking for work when I'm not busy (and managed to really tee off a boss who thought it made him look bad, at a top Fortune 500 companies, who proceeded to make my life miserable for a year, until I got away from him). But that's another story -- though it didn't help my self confidence any, which I'd always had a problem with, at work, never feeling quite good enough. Actually, that very impression permeated my life, and maybe that's another reason I've always been desperate to seek, and do, work. "It's more like nature and nurture rather than nature versus nurture,...