Working at MAMBO has been the best experience in my life, I have enjoyed it so much that I just want to quit school and go to work on a day-to-day basis. However, I cant as there is still a lot that I need to learn to be ready for the real world.
If you aren’t prepared it will eat you up as a monster and then spit you out.
Although, thousands of thoughts spin around my mind the most important and relevant one is: How do I hold myself accountable?
At school we do things for a grade or because we are afraid our teacher will shout at us. However, ever since I started working I have realized that things aren’t like this in the business world.
Workers don’t do things because they are afraid of their bosses, but because they are actually passionate about what they do.
Yet, they still have to be held accountable somehow and how is that done? It is actually really simple and it can be explained in three words.
You are fired.
Those three words put together are the biggest fear of any worker.
Nevertheless, they don’t do work just because they are afraid of getting fired but they know that if they don’t achieve high quality work that is the consequence they will get.
Here at the Innovation Academy that is our biggest problem. How do we hold ourselves accountable? We can’t fire people from the IA, so we say grades are our measurement.
Yet, that is going against our philosophy as grades are not why we are in the IA but the complete opposite, we are here because we value our learning and we don’t want to be marginalized by a number.
As I keep working as an intern at MAMBO I will try to find a solution to this great question of accountability at school but until then we students should be the ones holding each other accountable of our own work and be sure that everyone is on task.