I don't love every day of my job.

我並不是每天都熱愛我的工作。

I don't think every day brings me joy.

我不認為每天都能給我帶來快樂。

Nor does joy have to be the definition of a good day.

快樂也不一定是美好一天的定義。

And every day I'm not happy.

每天我都不開心。

Every year I'm not happy about the company, but I love the company every single second.

每年我都對公司不滿意，但我每分每秒都愛著公司。

And so I think that that what people misunderstand is is somehow the best jobs are the one that brings you happiness all the time, I I don't think that that's right.

是以，我認為人們誤解的是，最好的工作就是能一直給你帶來快樂的工作，我認為這是不對的。

You have to suffer, you have to struggle.

你必須吃苦，必須奮鬥。

You have to endeavor, you have to do those hard things and work through it in order to really appreciate what you've done.

你必須努力，必須做那些艱苦的事情，通過努力才能真正體會到你所做的一切。

And there are no such thing that are great that was easy to do.

沒有什麼偉大的事情是容易做到的。

And so by definition I would I would say therefore, I I wish upon you greatness, which by my way of saying it.

是以，根據定義，我會說，我希望你們偉大，這是我的說法。

I wish upon you plenty of pain and suffering.

我希望你們遭受更多的痛苦和折磨。

And so I'm about to tell you things I've never told anyone.

所以我要告訴你一些我從未告訴過別人的事情。

Not even my family.

連我的家人也不例外。

You know, I I was an immigrant.

你知道，我是個移民。

And when I came in 1973, um my I was nine, my older brother was almost 11.

1973 年我來到這裡時，我 9 歲，我哥哥快 11 歲了。

And this was a foreign country.

而這是一個外國。

And um there it was there was nothing easy about that and um uh we we also grew up in a really really terrific parents.

我們在一個非常非常好的家庭里長大。

But but uh we weren't wealthy and so they worked hard, they work hard today.

但是，我們並不富裕，所以他們努力工作，如今他們也在努力工作。

Um and so they passed along a lot of a lot of life lessons by working hard.

是以，他們通過努力工作，傳授了很多人生經驗。

Now I I had I had all kinds of jobs, you know.

現在，我做過各種各樣的工作，你知道的。

And and um we went to a we went to a school that was that that included a lot of chores.

我們上的學校有很多家務活。

Is it in Kentucky?

是在肯塔基州嗎？

Yeah, Kentucky Oneida Baptist Institute.

是的，肯塔基州奧奈達浸信會學院。

And um uh I don't think it's the same as MIT.

我覺得這和麻省理工學院不一樣。

That I is not the same it's the same word.

我 "和 "我 "不是一個詞，而是同一個詞。

Uh but it's different.

但這是不同的。

It's a different type of institute.

這是一個不同類型的學院。

But my institute required you to go to school um and we it was a dormitory and so there were a lot of chores.

但我所在的學院要求你去上學，嗯，我們是宿舍，所以有很多家務活。

I was the youngest kid in school.

我是學校裡最小的孩子。

And so all of the other kids got the hard work.

於是，其他所有的孩子都開始了艱苦的學習。

They had to work in the tobacco farm.

他們不得不在菸草農場工作。

And I got the easy job, I was nine years old and so after they left, I had to clean all the bathrooms.

我得到了一份輕鬆的工作，當時我才九歲，所以他們走後，我必須打掃所有的浴室。

I I I never felt that I got the easy job.

我從來不覺得我的工作輕鬆。

You know, because what they left behind was you can't unsee that kind of stuff.

你知道，因為他們留下的是你無法忘卻的東西。

But that was my job.

但這是我的工作。

And that was my job.

這就是我的工作。

And so I did it delightfully.

所以我做得很開心。

And then then um I had plenty of other jobs and uh Denny's was one of them and I I start started out as a dishwasher.

然後我還做過很多其他工作 丹尼餐廳也是其中之一 我從洗碗工做起。

And became a busboy and became a waiter and and I I loved every one of them.

我做過雜工，當過服務員，我愛他們每一個人。

I loved every one of them somehow somehow uh I've always found uh you know, I want to say joy but that's not quite right.

我愛他們中的每一個人，不知怎麼的，我總能找到 呃，你知道，我想說快樂，但這不太合適。

I just I just everything that I was doing, I I wanted to do do the best I could.

我所做的一切，都是為了盡我所能。

And and maybe that was kind of ingrained from a very beginning.

也許這一點從一開始就根深蒂固。

But I I was definitely the best uh bathroom cleaner the world's ever seen.

但我絕對是世界上最好的浴室清潔工。

I'm sure of it.

我很確定。