I want to talk about something that my parents engraved in me at a very young age, they always mentioned the “blue collar” approach. In my youth I didn’t know what the blue collar approach was, or what it untallied, but it was something that was part of my childhood and continues to be part of my life whether I like it or not.
The blue collar approach in my family is simple, it’s the idea that if you want to get something done, do it yourself.
My parents would tell me that I can is 1000x stronger than I can’t, which naturally tends to be very true.
Both my parents came from unique homes, my dad came from a large Italian family of seven kids, where he was the youngest.
My mother came from a family where she took over many of the parental …show more content…
He grew the company, but also worked 10-14 days for 15 years, by the time my brother and I were old enough to be in school all day my mother decided that she would go back to school and obtain her bachelors in special education, going back to school when she was in her thirties was not ideal but she did what she had to so she could provide for her family, by the time I was 12 my mother had received her master’s degree along with many other secondary education …show more content…
By the end of my freshman season I knew the financial burden I was putting on my parents while playing baseball, I also knew that at the age of 46 my father just had his second knee replacement. My father only knows one gear and that is full throttle, I felt like this man has provided me with so many opportunities that it was my time to step up and help.
I opted to no longer continue playing baseball and to come home, pursue my schooling and work for my dad while I went to school, it was the best of both worlds, I got to be home and I got to work the old man.
I quickly learned that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, my dad had his business and there was nothing on this planet that would change the way he did things. My father was blue collar through and through, he was to stubborn to ask for help and to prideful to know the
The blue collar approach in my family is simple, it’s the idea that if you want to get something done, do it yourself.
My parents would tell me that I can is 1000x stronger than I can’t, which naturally tends to be very true.
Both my parents came from unique homes, my dad came from a large Italian family of seven kids, where he was the youngest.
My mother came from a family where she took over many of the parental …show more content…
He grew the company, but also worked 10-14 days for 15 years, by the time my brother and I were old enough to be in school all day my mother decided that she would go back to school and obtain her bachelors in special education, going back to school when she was in her thirties was not ideal but she did what she had to so she could provide for her family, by the time I was 12 my mother had received her master’s degree along with many other secondary education …show more content…
By the end of my freshman season I knew the financial burden I was putting on my parents while playing baseball, I also knew that at the age of 46 my father just had his second knee replacement. My father only knows one gear and that is full throttle, I felt like this man has provided me with so many opportunities that it was my time to step up and help.
I opted to no longer continue playing baseball and to come home, pursue my schooling and work for my dad while I went to school, it was the best of both worlds, I got to be home and I got to work the old man.
I quickly learned that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, my dad had his business and there was nothing on this planet that would change the way he did things. My father was blue collar through and through, he was to stubborn to ask for help and to prideful to know the