When Todd Rose was 21 years old, he was a high-school dropout struggling to support his wife and two small children on state benefits. He had done 10 minimum-wage jobs in two years.
“My favourite job was administering enemas to elderly people, because this meant I was allowed to drive around, rather than being stuck behind a desk or stamping aluminium on the factory floor,” he says. “My father-in-law told me I was lazy, and I can’t blame him. If this was my daughter, I’d be the same.”
Today, aged 41, he’s a Harvard professor with a string of accolades to his name, still happily married, with both kids at college. “So I didn’t mess them up,” he says with a smile – and one hopes his relationship with his in-laws is less fraught these days.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.executivestyle.com.au
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