One of the things sharp observers notice about me is the way I approach the things I do.

There are a few things- like filling out expense reports- that drive me nuts. but the rest of what i do, I do with passion.

I’ve been in the robotics field for fifteen years. I have a personal relationship wiht all the people where I have installed robots, and all the robots I have set up or programmed or designed, I stay in touch with- so to speak.

When I installa system, each robot has a unique IP that I can contact via the internet anywhere in the world, and I often log on to the robot so that I can see how it’s been utilized, what changes can be made to improve operation, etc.

A couple months ago I logged on to a robot I’d installed some years ago. I saw that they had some inefficient routines. In a hotel room late at night, I downloaded the code, made a few changes, in about qa week they had a noticeable increase ion quality and cycle time.

They actually called me. ‘Something happened to the tobot” they said. ‘The parts are better and we get about 15% more a day”.

“So what’s the problem”?

“We want to make sure something didn’t break”

“No, I did that.”( I’ve done this before. They keep a password active for me so I can get in) ” I changed a couple routines last night”

“Oh. Thanks!”

Passion for what you do is what separates the placeholders from the performers. Passion for your job can exist at the McDonald’s burger-flipper level. Do you have passion for what you do?