I received tenure the next year, and became Full Professor a few years later. Colleagues apologized for their activities. For three two year terms I have been elected to the Executive Committee of my department. Say you are ignored by a salesperson or hassled by the cops. Instead of losing your temper, feel thanks to them for giving you the strength to improve upon your patience, and to continue with what you have to do.
Work is an attitude that delights in effort.
If you have work, all your studies, all your efforts will have a successful result. If, on the other hand, you are seized by laziness you will lose. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late.