Mine is not a hiring story (though that's another story, since I was hired with just an English major), but a few months into my first job I asked my boss which

Mine is not a hiring story (though that's another story, since I was hired with just an English major), but a few months into my first job I asked my boss which of two different architectural approaches he thought I should take on a project, and he said, "I trust you." That really meant a lot to me.