Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap. We relied on each other and still do. They never discouraged me or told me to get a proper job.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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 folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.
I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
I grew up in a family struggling for work.
I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.