Hey there, HR pros. Happy Birthday to Oprah Winfrey, who turns 72 years old today. The iconic talk show host, producer, and author is also set to moderate a conversation at SHRM’s annual conference in June this year . We’ll have our ears peeled for any HR-related takeaways coming out of that event, but for now we’ll reflect on that one time Winfrey kept it real during a commencement speech at the University of Southern California:
“Your job is not always going to fulfill you,” she told graduates. “There will be some days that you just might be bored, other days you might not feel like going to work at all—go anyway.”
. We’ll have our ears peeled for any HR-related takeaways coming out of that event, but for now we’ll reflect on that one time Winfrey kept it real during a commencement speech at the University of Southern California: