EL AIRE ACONDICIONADO Many have asked how it was possible for me to obtain a PhD and worked as a professor at a major university, since I did not receive a formal education in Mexico nor attended elementary school in the USA. Thee are may factors that contributed to my success, my parents valued education and reinforced it every day; they had high expectations and sacrificed much for our success; I was a nerd and liked school. However one particular event kept me going every time things got hard. Every summer (1960-1969), my family would go up north to Lodi Califonia to pick cucumbers, tomatoes , chiles, plums etc. We lived at a family government operated labor camp, Harney Lane Labor Camp. One day after work my parents and I went to a government office , welfare, edd, social security I am not sure which office. It must have been 110 degrees outside; but when we walked into t a government office, for the first time I experienced AIR CONDITION. We walked to a window and behind was a young man with a bow time. I told myself this is the type of job I want. Every time, school assignments became difficult, I recalled the air condition incident and gave me mas ganas y estudiaba mas duro.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:24:05 +0000
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