As my job is an IT technician, whenever anyone outside of work\u2019s computer throws a hissy fit, needs work or just plain dies, I get a call. It can be family, friends or friends of family!<\/p>\n
But the thing is, no matter what I do, I never ask for money. Of course I\u2019d never ask family or friends, but I suppose I could for friends of family etc. BUT, I never do. One reason is if someone asks for help, I don\u2019t like asking for money (I am British after all and these kind of things are somewhat \u2018vulgar\u2019 don\u2019t you know?) and the other is that people do stuff for me and never ask for payment, so why should I?<\/p>\n
Occasionally I may get some chocolates (always appreciated), but that\u2019s it. In fact the only time I can think I\u2019ve had some money from anyone was when I sold a PC to my sister a few weeks ago as hers had died. But that was mainly as I was letting her have a whole new system. Another time I set up my sister-in-law\u2019s new PC and she let me have the old one. Nothing much wrong with it, so I wiped it and it\u2019s going to my Mum so she can manipulate as many photos as she likes, when she likes, without getting in my Dad\u2019s way on his PC!<\/p>\n
What made me think of this is that one of the cleaners at work has a grandson who has been give a nearly new laptop. It was bought in August by a man who passed away just before Christmas and his mother gave it to this young lad. However, it had no discs, manuals or any info about passwords so they couldn\u2019t do anything with it! I\u2019ve wiped it, done a new install of Windows and I\u2019m in the process of running ALL the updates ![\"Sleepy\"](\"http:\/\/messenger.msn.com\/MMM2006-04-19_17.00\/Resource\/emoticons\/77_77.gif\")
and installing the programmes that he will need. But she\u2019s asked me a couple of times now how much do I want and each time I\u2019ve said \u2018nothing\u2019. This is partially as I\u2019m doing it at work between other jobs so it\u2019s not really taking up my time and partially as I\u2019ve found that it\u2019s always a good idea to keep well in with people like cleaners and caretakers at work as you never know when you will need a favour from them!<\/p>\n
The point of all this (Finally I hear you scream), is that it reminded me of the Cub Scout Law –<\/p>\n
A Cub Scout always does his best,<\/p>\n
thinks of others before himself <\/p>\n
and does a good turn every day. <\/p>\n
OK, that was the version I learned when I was a kid, it\u2019s now –<\/p>\n
Cub Scouts always do their best, <\/p>\n
think of others before themselves<\/p>\n
and do a good turn every day. <\/p>\n
The bit that sprang to mind is the \u2018does a good turn every day\u2019 line. Doing a \u2018good turn\u2019 has always been a part of Scouting and even though it\u2019s not mentioned as such in the Law and Promise (the \u2018help other people\u2019 part of the Scout Promise is probably closest), it\u2019s still a good concept to keep to in day to day life. <\/p>\n
Imagine how easy it would be if everyone followed this simple law! Doing your best, thinking of others and helping them \u2013 WOW what an amazing idea!<\/p>\n
So I\u2019ll keep doing my IT support free of charge and helping others, but if anyone wants to give me the odd choccy, I won\u2019t say no!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As my job is an IT technician, whenever anyone outside of work\u2019s computer throws a hissy fit, needs work or just plain dies, I get a call. It can be family, friends or friends of family! But the thing is, no matter what I do, I never ask for money. Of course I\u2019d never ask … <\/p>\n