[Hildy]

Some children write well. My Dad was a professional writer so all through school my teaher's assumed my Father was helping me write my essays. He NEVER helped me. I never asked.

[jocon307]

"He NEVER helped me. I never asked."

I didn't need help with English, I desperately needed help with Math. Unfortunately for me, as my mother often pointed out, I was better at math than anyone else in my family, including my parents.

There were many tears and broken pencils, I tell you that, for a fact. Luckily for me some genius (at Texas Instruments wasn't it?) invented the calculator. I have actually been gainfully employed for my entire career as a bookkeeper. I meet people I went to school with and they are astonished!

But I always point out the job is BOOK-KEEPER, not mathemetician. I am living proof that technology not only ends jobs, but creates them.