From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.
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My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
My parents had a great work ethic.
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
My siblings and I were raised to be very hardworking and to find something that we're passionate in, and to be able to turn that into work - I'm lucky to be able to say that I've done that.
I think my mom and dad have an incredible work ethic, and we've grown up around it.
My brother and I always had jobs and worked from a young age.
I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father and my stepfather and my mother all taught me, which was never depend on anyone else to do things for you, and work really hard on your own. At the same time, I benefited from the help of church and family and government my whole life.
I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.
From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.
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