#5 Christ Church

Personally, I think the best way I have learned to “treat every job as an adventure” like Kouzes and Posner said, was to simply maintain an open mind about the trip, the service work we did, and all the other activities we did outside of that. One way to kill the excitement a new adventure can bring is to compare places or what you may be doing to the bad experiences you may have had in the past. That even goes for good experiences. If the adventure falls short of the wonderful experience you had last time, even that could be enough to ruin the good memories created on such an adventure. Essentially what I am saying is that one should not come into a new job with preconceived notions of how they think it may go. It does not really matter if it is the exact some job or a different one. There is no cookie-cutter recipe for an adventure, so why approach it as such. Also, sometimes jobs can largely be looked at as dull, boring, or something that puts you to sleep. Adventure has a whole other sort of ring to it. When I say the word adventure to myself, I feel excitement for the unknown. Much like the kids graduating and moving on to the next stage of life at Christ Church, we all remember that excitement of a new adventure and memories to be made at the college we selected to go to. While unknown leaves room for bad or good to happen, 50/50 odds seems well worth the risk to me.Read more