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Erie, Pa.,
Sunday, Nov. 17, 1940.
This was a wild, windy, rainy, haily day - a perfect day for me to spend most of it at my desk and I did just that, taking time off only to shovel the walk, help Willie seal some window cracks with plastic wood and to eat. The rest of the time I spent working almost entirely on my new job - studying production reports, proposition and requisition records, writing letters, planning, making notes. Getting a grip on this job is a monumental Task and I have made up my mind that I'll have to work a lot of overtime on it to get it in hand - but I don't mind; it's rather fun - always has been to play hard on something and feel one is accomplishing something. What this amounts to is running a little business of a million or two gross a year - running it - every phase of it. Nothing could be better experience for me for the future! To make good at this job will be a real accomplishment attended by hard work and real fun and satisfaction such as I have never known before. I think I'm going to really relish it. And I'm not losing sight of the fact either that there are human problems in this job - that there is chance for real accomplishment in human relations that will give great satisfaction too. What an accomplishment to bring to that office an atmosphere of good cheer and friendliness and cooperation all the way around! There is a goal to be sought too. The crowning achievement in personal relations will be to win old Shap as a friend and cheerful collaborator. So I face a big job, a fascinating one and I hope a year from now I can look back upon successful endeavor, forward to greater achievement and more happiness for my family.