The immigrant experience was formidable. Your father's story is so typical of the CCNY route, and very impressive. Both my parents were born here to immigrant parents, a tailor and a baker. Both quit school to make money while in the 6th grade. My background was quite typical of everyone at CCNY in the mid-fifties. We worked at night and slept thru classes. But we knew, really knew, that social mobility was inevitable with education. I failed out of CCNY, went into the army, worked, and came back focused.
Brag-brag. CCNY has produced more Nobel Prize winners than any other college in the world, by far.
I got my Ph.D. in clinical psychology, my first job was as at Harvard Medical School as a researcher in schizophrenia. I am now a retired academic who still practices part -time and am writing my 4th book.
I just had someone add a dish antenna to my roof. A young black fellow. They paid him $25 for the job, and his wife is due any moment --his second kid. With travel, the job took at least 2 hrs., and there is some risk involved.
Lower his tax rate rather than mine!
Just for the record. I am very anti-socialist and anti-communist because of the concentration of economic and political power involved. I infuriate my Marxist friends when I point out that Government is a far bigger monopoly than trivial GM, GE, etc that they fear. The worst crimes are either by governments or by religion.
fred
PS-- I hope we're not boring people. |
