Same. Left home with an education i paid for by working at all the jobs i could find, everything i owned in the toolbox of my pickup and passenger side and about $300.
I dont owe anybody a thing, never had to backup for my pay, never took a thing i did not earn first, never compromised ethics or morals, never stooped for anybody. I am grateful for good parents and opportunity.
Too old soon to late smart on some things but no regrets. Ive learned a lot.
Same here. I created a company from scratch. This snob may say, “you didn’t build that”, or was that another elitist snob’s phrase? But I did build it. I worked 12 hour days on my weekends, with a whole lot of 16 hour days on weekdays for a decade. I built that. No guilt. No luck involved. Just hard work and taking responsibility for top-quality results and meeting deadlines.
And my kids? Very good schools. Good colleges, where they earned their admissions. Good jobs, where I never pulled strings. I was not going to raise princes and princesses. I raised Americans. They can all shoot. They can all change a tire and their own oil. They are all conservatives. I am proud of them.