# "Work Worth Doing": The Character in Building a Career

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Podcast: [The Never Stop Learning Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213)
Published: 2026-06-01T14:27:30+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/2856378
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"Work Worth Doing": The Character in Building a Career ...explores work as more than a paycheck, a title, or a ladder of advancement. It asks what a career does to the person building it. Through questions of learning, preparation, collaboration, judgment, honesty, discipline, and service, this episode examines work as one of the main places where character is tested and formed. Drawing on Woodrow Wilson’s view of work as contribution, John Wooden’s warning about preparation, Ivy Lee’s discipline of ordered attention, and voices such as Theodore Roosevelt, John Maxwell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen Covey, and George Eliot, the episode argues that the real measure of a career is not only what was earned or achieved, but what kind of person emerged from the years of labor.

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