My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.
My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.
Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.
When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.
My mum was a librarian, and my dad worked in Greenland.
My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.