My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.
I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.
My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.
Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.
My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.