Interview question: What specific work and developmental experiences helped shape your emotional intelligence?
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A2 You have to look at the paradigm. I’d say I grew up Coding^
in an environment ... through what my parents taught me and the religious training I had and all
that sort of stuff. When you talk about the personal worth and dignity, that was part of it – so there was
something that certainly was mentally planned. And I understood that. But it’s a fascinating role
that a civilian in the (if you work in the (organizationagency name) as opposed to ) plays, especially
(primarily civilian. Quite frankly, it’s in a flying the organization) or (organization), where it’s
airplaneseat; you’ll never be the pilot. So it’s, I mean just -type context: you’ll never be in the left
being a Federal servant for yourself there’s a subordination of self to the Constitution, to the
agency, to the Nation. And I’d say when you flip over to the (agency name) as a civilian, there’s
another level of subordination that occurs because I answer to a (redacted) boss for the most part. So
you have to wrestle with that awith that. And again, under Shakespearean concept, nd come to terms
it’s neither good nor bad; it just is. And so you have to be comfortable with that, to work that out. Now
... (6 second pause) interestingly enough, where I found the point of ... being in the smelter and
seeing it all come together was probably my time with the (organization). When I went to work for
them just after September 11(organization) was at war basically for the 10 years th in 2001, the
that I worked for it. But I tell people thawent over there, it was like coming home. It was t when I
my kind of crazy. I aligned with how they thought. By the same token, I realized being civilian in a
Family upbringing
Religious training
Personal worth and dignity
Fascinating
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