Persistence in Maintenance

After work, instead of collapsing on his bed, he watched videos about equipment

maintenance. He borrowed manuals from the factory’s old storage room. Progress was invisible,

but effort wasn’t. Weeks passed. Then months. He made mistakes—plenty of them.

He stayed late without being asked and was ignored. He suggested improvements that went nowhere.

Some nights, he wondered if he was just wasting what little energy he had left.

Most people would have stopped here. Honestly—would you have kept going? Daniel did.

Not because he believed in success. But because stopping meant accepting that nothing would

ever change. One afternoon, a supervisor noticed that Daniel had fixed a recurring