Sometimes I find myself in situations that, while not overtly strange or unusual, are not what I would have expected to be spending my time doing. This week, for example, I worked full time as a receptionist for a company where one of the branch members works, and while it wasn’t been particularly challanging, it’s really helped me to appreciate the time I spent working at another business last year. I did customer service work there from July ‘05 to July ‘06, and while I never really enjoyed the job, I did learn a lot of valuable things about the way business works — particularly the nature of the relationship between customers and venders. I’m not an expert at it, but over time it became common practice for me to treat customers, and actually anyone that I encountered in the context of my job, with a certain level of respect, and attend to their needs to the best of my ability. In short, I came to treat them as though I was serving them. All of that fit in nicely with this receptionist job, as I was the first person that a customer or a sales rep encountered when they walked in the door, and was usually the one who attends to their needs when they first entered the building. Praise God for the opportunity to serve!