{"id":894,"date":"2019-06-10T17:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T23:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2019-06-10T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:10:29","slug":"perseverance-hard-work-selflessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance, Hard Work, Selflessness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I enjoy good character stories wherever I find them, and here is a story about a solid work ethic and frugality in Bronco fullback Andy Janovich. The headline in the ESPN article<\/a> involves his beat-up blue, used pickup truck that he\u2019s had since college. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Denver Bronco fullback Andy Janovich and his used pickup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s relatively low paid at $600,000\/year (by contrast, Peyton Manning took a $4 million pay cut to earn \u201conly\u201d $15 million his last year with the Broncos), but Janovich could afford a new truck if he wanted one, couldn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the truck he has suits him, and when it goes (it has 138,000 miles on it), he\u2019ll look for another used one. In the meantime, he just does his largely-under-the-radar job.\u00a0The ESPN article observes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open the hood on Janovich, and the Nebraska native is a story in perseverance, hard work and vocational selflessness — and there is even some corn. \u201cHe\u2019s what you think about as a Nebraska guy,” Broncos running back\u00a0Phillip Lindsay said. \u201cHe works, does his job, doesn\u2019t ask for anybody to cheer him on or anything. He just does it.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a league (and a world!) where everyone is screaming, \u201cLook at me!\u201d Janovich summarizes his perspective:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not at a position where I\u2019m going to score a bunch of touchdowns or have a million catches or rushing yards. For the most part, I just block people and make small plays here and there, help other people make big plays. I\u2019ve never been the playmaker. And do I like my job? Absolutely. It works for me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not. (Jeremiah 45.5, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enjoy good character stories wherever I find them, and here is a story about a solid work ethic and frugality in Bronco fullback Andy Janovich. The headline in the ESPN article involves his beat-up blue, used pickup truck that he\u2019s had since college. He\u2019s relatively low paid at $600,000\/year (by contrast, Peyton Manning took … Continue reading Perseverance, Hard Work, Selflessness<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-eq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}