I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.
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I wasn't like a Fifties dad.
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.
When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.
I was not considered a kid that would be successful in my career.
As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.
Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.
I'm a child of the Sixties.
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