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Old 11-12-2016, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by ZeroJunk View Post
I don't know. My father worked in a cotton mill and my mother was a cook in the school cafeteria.

I started to work in a warehouse for $3 an hour and just stayed there working my way up through the company. Ended up buying out the owners as they retired. Took 35 years.

There were at least a dozen people working there who could have done the same thing. They just chose not to, didn't want to, whatever. They had the aptitude, but just didn't. I don't know why.
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