Personal values

What do you stand for professionally and personally? And at the end of the day and would you stick to them thick and thin?
Once upon a time I was asked one of the most thought provoking questions in my life at a job interview.
It's been over 10 years but it represented one of the most important points in my career as an IT professional and though I didn't take the job at the time and in hindsight it probably would not have worked out if I did (they didn't make it and were bought out by a competitor), even knowing all this I often wish I had taken that role because I was asked one of those questions that would have made me walk through fire for the person who asked it, the questions was "What would you like put on your gravestone when you die?", I thought for a heartbeat and said "All around good guy", the person who asked me was called Phil Tee and at the time he was running a Networking company called Riversoft, he may not remember me but I surely remember him for creating that singular defining moment, when all is said and done and at the end of the day, how do you wish to be remembered?