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There are some people that you will meet in life that will impress you far beyond their years. I recently became aware of a young Alabama man named Walter Carr.
Walter had just gotten hired to his first job at a moving company about twenty miles from his home. Then the worst possible thing could have happened to this enterprising young man, his car broke down.
Now, to most people, this would have been the moment that some would have called their job and informed them of the issue. Most employers would have even understood the situation.
Walter is clearly built of something different. Instead of taking the easy way out. He did some quick figuring and then started walking. He walked to work.
Let me repeat that a little more forcefully, he walked twenty miles to work so that he would be able to make a good impression on his bosses. When his shift was over, he would set off down the road and make it home with maybe enough time to get three or four hours of sleep before doing it all over again.
One of the days that he was doing this, the strain of trying to maintain such a schedule finally got to him. He began to slow down and was eventually stopped by two police officers who had noticed him walking for some time. These kind officers took time out of their own schedules to get him something to eat and drive him the rest of the way to work.
The work site that day happened to be a client that was moving furniture and one of the cops took the client aside to tell them about the work ethic of the young man that they were dropping off.
After hearing the cops talk about Walter’s situation and exactly what he did to get to his house to move furniture, Jenny Lamey did the only thing that she thought she could do.
She called the CEO of the moving company to tell him of the situation. The CEO was touched beyond belief by this enterprising young man’s drive to get to work no matter what. Then the CEO did something that floored everyone. He gave Walter his car.
Not just any car. Luke Marklin, the CEO of Bellhops moving company, gave Walter his own personal car. Luke then teamed up with Jenny Lamey to raise funds for the young man, with a GoFundMe that totaled in the six figured by the time that it was all said and done.
This is one of those lessons that I wish far more young people paid attention to. That if you work hard, and do what’s right people eventually notice.
