NewsNews16 July 2018

Alisa Kirpychova - Specialist in corporate social responsibility

CSR It is this acronym that describes what I did during the three months of my internship. The interpretation is as follows: "Corporate social responsibility".

About work that cleans karma. During these three months, this abbreviation and its decoding became my leitmotif. I told many people about what these three magic letters are. To parents, friends, acquaintances, employees of the company) If you try to condense the description of this term to an impossibly small size, then I would say that it is "karmic work". After all, the amount of local and large-scale useful actions that we did cleared my karma for the coming years! It was different: corporate cleaning, International Day of people with Down syndrome, donor day, separate sorting of garbage, provision of books to schools, conducting excursions, presentation of career guidance comic, sign language course, "Profi" project... Each of these events was like they say, "balm for the soul", because in the frantic rhythm of life, sometimes you don't notice/don't understand how much small actions change. I advise everyone to join!

About dilettantism. Exactly. I want to be a dilettante, an amateur, an inspiration for things. You usually start your career path from the "lowlands", for example, as an intern. Everyone around you seems to be professionals, which you are still far from. But during the three months of internship, I realized that it is important to preserve the passion of a dilettante-amateur-trainee that you have at the beginning. Because the roots of these words (amateur - from Latin amo - love, like; dilettante - from Latin delecto - amuse, amuse) hint at a simple truth: a dilettante-amateur is a person who really loves his work, without feeling fear for the fact that something does not work out for her, but having free (not preserved by science) thoughts for creating beauty. So let's be amateur dilettantes with fire in our eyes!

About stressors. Let's put it this way, they do not become less, but you learn to react to them. You learn to let them pass through you and become better. Because you can't become a stonemason without picking up a stone. I can say that I have come to love my stressors. They have become my best assistants in self-improvement. They taught me to take responsibility and carry it through; taught to look at them as opportunities. So look for and tame stressors, they get offended when they run away from them!

And what to say in the end?

Let's do our work, inspiring others and being inspired ourselves, because it matters!

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