친구가 토스해줘서 읽은 파월의 이야기.
파월은 학부는 프린스턴을 졸업했고, 로스쿨은 조지타운을 졸업.
그러한 인연으로 파월이 5/19 조지타운 로스쿨 졸업식에 가서 스피치를 했는데.... 스크립트는 아래 링크에 있다.
재밌는 부분은 아래
Like many of you, I imagine, I knew that I wanted to do public service. As I left law school, I remember thinking about people like George Shultz and Cyrus Vance, prominent figures of the day who had successful private-sector careers and served periodically in government.
The head of the investment bank in New York where I worked as a young man was Nicholas F. Brady, who had an extraordinary career in investment banking and had served as a U.S. senator from New Jersey as well. I was the most junior of employees, but I wanted to introduce myself and tell him about my own aspirations. But approaching him was daunting. Maybe he would decline to meet with me. Maybe he would think I was not committed to the firm if I told him I was interested in public service.
I finally summoned the courage to present myself at his office. I told him that I grew up in Washington, had been a federal law clerk and a congressional staffer, and wanted to do public service along the way. I said that if you need someone to staff you on anything you do in Washington, I'm your guy. He said something along the lines of, "Great, thanks." I then crept back down the stairs to my broom closet of an office wondering whether that was going to matter.
A few months later, I got a call from his secretary. I can still hear her gravelly voice. "Can you come up and see Mr. Brady?" When I got there, he said, "I need you to help me out with this thing." This thing was defending an oil company from a hostile takeover attempt by a colorful corporate raider of that era named T. Boone Pickens. I ended up spending months going back and forth from New York to Washington with Nick. A few years later, Nick Brady became the Treasury Secretary. Nick asked me to join him at Treasury, which opened the door for me to higher levels of public service. The point is this: if I had not forced myself to get up from my desk, taken the stairs up to the 15th floor, and presented myself to his office that day, the rest of my life would have been very different, and I would not be standing here today.
Mustering that little bit of initiative changed my life. A little initiative can make all the difference in anyone's career.
뉴욕의 투자은행에 취직해서 일했는데, 말단 직원이었기에 당시 대표였던 니콜라스 브래디랑 말도 섞기 어려웠는데 용기를 내어 들이댔다고 함. 몇층 올라가 사무실로 직접 찾아가 공직에서 일하시게 되면 제가 옆에서 스탭으로 모시겠습니다 하고 들이댔다는 것. 니콜라스 브래디는 몇 년 후 재무부 장관이 되었고 재무부 장관이 된 브래디를 따라가 재무부 고위직으로 입성~!.
"little bit of initiative" 가 인생을 바꾸었다는 이야기
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