How A Lost Wallet Changed My Career

I used to work at a Fortune 500 company, one of those huge corporations with over 10,000 employees, where I spent my days in a massive call center. Rows and rows of cubicles, filled with people on headsets, answering call after call. It could feel suffocating at times, so whenever I needed a breather, I'd step outside to a spot by this beautiful geyser fountain. It was my little escape—a place where I could find some peace, reset my mind, and breathe.

One day, during one of those much-needed breaks, something caught my eye by the fountain. A wallet. I bent down, opened it, and saw cash—lots of it. My first thought was, "Someone's panicking right now." I looked around, hoping to spot someone frantically searching for their lost wallet, but it was just me out there, alone with this wallet full of cash.

Without hesitation, I picked it up and headed back inside. I got on the elevator, packed with people as usual, clutching the wallet. It wasn’t about the money for me; I just wanted to do the right thing. When I reached the front desk, I turned it in, and unknowingly there was a man standing behind me, quietly watching everything unfold. He was in the elevator with me as well.

I thought nothing of it and returned to my cubicle, ready to finish my shift. But then, something unexpected happened. One by one, people started coming up to me—people who never talked to me before, people from upper management, my own managers—all of them saying, "Great job, DaVon! You're awesome!"

I was completely caught off guard. It turns out that the man who had been standing behind me when I returned the wallet asked the front desk who I was. He took it upon himself to email my bosses, letting them know what I had done.

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Fast forward a bit—I had applied for a job in another department but didn’t get it at first. Then, that same man on the elevator, who also was a manager, saw my name and told his team, "I want him in my department. You can teach skills, but you can’t teach integrity."

From that moment on, my name became synonymous with integrity.

One of my life goals is for that word to define me for the rest of my days.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching. Let it be your goal today to do what’s right, do it the right way, simply because it’s the right thing to do.

In the end, let your name be synonymous with integrity, character, and a solid reputation.

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