In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
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 father worked all the time.
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.