Walk through a hive from the center out and you walk through a bee's whole career. The youngest workers stay in the middle, cleaning cells and feeding larvae. Beekeepers call them nurse bees. They are days old and already taking care of the next generation.
A week or so in, the same bee switches to construction. Her wax glands mature and she joins the crews building comb, the honeycomb architecture that holds everything the colony owns. After that comes receiving nectar at the door, then guard duty at the entrance, checking everyone who lands.
Only after all of that, in the last stretch of her life, does she become a forager, the bee you actually see on flowers. It is the most dangerous job and the most experienced bees do it. Nobody skips the early jobs, and nobody is above them.
Every bee starts by taking care of the family. Sound familiar? It does to us.
Three generations of our family have worked this dealership, and every one of us started somewhere unglamorous, washing cars, filing paperwork, sweeping the shop floor. You learn the business from the center of the hive out. By the time you are the one meeting customers, you know what every job behind you actually takes.
The hive does not do titles. It does sequence. First you take care of the family, then you build the house, then you guard the door, and then, when you have seen all of it, they let you fly.
