Not my Dad, but my Step Grandfather. I was a recent engineering grad, laid-off after three months on my first job.
He shook my hand for the last time (He was dying of pancreatic cancer, one year after retiring!)’ and said, “If you can’t work for two dollars a day, work for a dollar a day!”
My dad died of the same thing too young.
When I was worrying about something he would say
“ In fifty years it’ll be all over! “