Alfred Lubrano Alfred? As early as the mid-1970s, my father and I were both in the same university.
He is taking classes at Columbia University.
Bricklaying not far from the street, working in the campus building.
My father and I were in the same university in the mid-1970s. I study at Columbia University, which is not far from the same street.
Brick laying in place. Working on a construction site on campus.
Sometimes we get on the subway home. He holds the tools and I hold the books. We didn't chat.
About what happened during the day. My father is not interested in Dante, and I
Not on the arch. We will share one.
The new york Post also talks about the Mets.
Sometimes we go home by subway together. He brings tools and I bring books. We don't talk much about this day. My father has no feelings for Dante.
I know nothing about arches. We read New York Post's report about the Mets baseball game.
My father built many places in new york that he couldn't get into: universities, apartments,
Office building. male
Make a living outside. Once the high wall is erected, a place will feel different to him, as if he were not.
Welcome to visit. But he doesn't mind. For my father, the money I earned paid for my entry.
Strange, closed institutions are satisfactory enough. (1) We didn't know it at the time, but those days were a.
Branch, redefine what it means to be a worker in our family. We are related by blood, and we are separated.
According to the class, my father and I. Being a white-collar son of a blue-collar worker means being a hinge on the door.
Between the two lifestyles.
My father has built many buildings in new york, including university apartments and office buildings, which are all inaccessible. He makes a living outside the building. one
As soon as the high wall rises, the feeling of the building changes, and it seems that he is no longer popular. But he doesn't care. For my father, making money.
Paying some money so that I can enter a high-end university surrounded by brick walls, as he did himself, is quite satisfying. At that time, we were not
I realize this, but that was the day when we began to alienate ourselves. On this day, we began to redefine the meaning of workers in the family.
We are related by blood, but belong to different classes. Being a blue-collar white-collar son is equivalent to one of two different lifestyles.
The hinge on the door between rooms.
In a generation, it is not easy to change from Italian old world style to American yuppie style. although
Experts say that in the United States, the real rule is from poor to poor, from rich to rich. Maybe 10 climbed.
From working class to professional class. It's hard for my father to accept me as a
Just a journalist, an industry with a slightly higher salary than the construction industry.
He wants to know why I didn't.
I realized the multi-brick education and took some jobs as lawyers to make money. Thirty years after laying bricks,
My father promised himself that I would never make a living by laying bricks. He thinks that education will make me successful in my official career
Enter the upper class and put some money in my pocket. What he didn't expect was his
The eldest son breaks the blue-collar ruleNo. 1: make as much money as possible to pay.
The best possible life.
Get it.
It is not easy to change from an Italian lifestyle to an American yuppie in just one generation. Although the United States has
Myth experts who travel up and down the social stratum point out that the real situation is that the poor are rich and the poor are rich. Maybe ten percent of the people are still workers.
This class climbed to the professional level. My father finally accepted my decision to be an ordinary newspaper reporter, because the income of this line is only
Slightly higher than the construction industry. He doesn't understand why I don't use his bricklaying to pay for my college tuition and find a job like a lawyer.
A well-paid job. My father has been building walls for 30 years. He swore not to let me make a living by building walls. He thinks I can improve my life by receiving education.
Join the ranks of the upper class and earn a lot of money. What he didn't expect was that his eldest son went bankrupt.
The first rule of blue collar is to earn as much money as possible and live as well as possible.
When I was nineteen, he told me about it, and my collar turned white. I am a college student.
I gave him the wrong wrench when I helped with the housework on Saturday. "You'd better make a lot of money," mine said.
Blue-collar handy dad warned. "You need to hire someone to help you hammer a nail into the wall."
He told me that when I was 19 years old, when my collar began to turn white. My son is in college and helps at home on Saturday.
The wrench given to him always makes mistakes. "You'd better make a lot of money," warned my handy blue-collar father. "You will even nail a nail in the wall in the future.
My son also wants to hire someone to help. "
After graduating from college and graduate school, I got my first job, working in a daily newspaper in Columbus, Ohio. I
Breaking the news in the kitchen, all family affairs are discussed here. My mother cried as if this were Vietnam.
My father has several questions: "Ohio? Where the hell is Ohio? "
1980 I went to college and graduated from graduate school. After graduation, a daily newspaper in Columbia, Ohio gave me my first job. I
I say this in the kitchen because everything at home is discussed in the kitchen. My mother cried as if she were going to fight in Vietnam. My father asked.
Asked several questions, "Ohio, where the hell is Ohio?"
I said it's somewhere west of new york, just like Pennsylvania, only more like it. I told him that I
Want to write, only these people are willing to accept me.
I said it's in a place west of new york, just like Pennsylvania, only further west. I told him that I wanted to write, only him.
Students are willing to give me this job.
8 "Why can't you get a good paid job, just like advertising in the city and then writing on the side?"
"Why can't I find a good job with higher income when I work in new york, such as advertising and writing?"
9 "Advertising is deceptive," I said. "I want to tell the truth."
"Advertising is a lie," I said. "I want to report the facts."
10 "the truth?" The old man flew into a rage and his face turned red, just like when he climbed up the twentieth floor in the high wind.
"What is truth?" I said this is real life, and writing it will make me happy.
"You are happy with your family."
My father said that the second rule of blue collar was leaked. "That's what makes you happy. After that, it all boils down to
Dollars and cents. Besides family, what else can comfort you? Money, only money. The old man was very angry, and his face turned red, as if he were standing in a strong wind 20 stories high. "What is the truth?" Me.
It is real life. Reporting on real life will make me happy. "You are happy with your family," my father said casually.
The second rule of the collar. "That's what makes you happy. Except that it all boils down to dollars and money. What can I give you besides home?
You comfort money. Only money. "
Two weeks before I moved, he reminded me that journalism is a dying field, and I
Can do better. I am no longer the good son who studies hard. I'm blackmailing people.
Two weeks before he left, he reminded me that newspaper news is a dying industry and I can have a better future.
I am no longer the diligent and obedient child. I am very disappointed.
However, one night, my father brought home some heavy tape and transparent plastic foam you packed.
Your mother's second-line food came in. "You may not be able to do it well," my father said to me before stamping.
Help me take them to UPS. "This is what he wants," my father said to my mother on the day I left.
Columbus. "What are you going to do?" After I said goodbye, my father pulled me aside and pressed five 100 dollars.
Put the money in my hand. "Never mind," he said despite my weak protest. "Don't tell your mother."
But one night, my father brought home some thick gummed paper and transparent plastic foam materials to hold my mother for dinner.
With that. "It seems that you can't do it," my father told me. Then he sealed the box and helped me get FedEx. "this
This is what he wants to do. "On the day I went to Colombia, my father said to my mother," What can you do? "After I said goodbye, my father took me.
While stuffing five tickets 100 yuan into my hand. I refused a little. He said, "Here, don't tell your mother."
When I revealed the remuneration paid by the newspaper, my father suggested
I got a part-time job.
Replenish my income. "Maybe you can drive a taxi." Once, after I was arrested
A little thing, I told my father by mistake in a home visit. "They don't give you anything, they
"I pushed you too hard on that," he told me, getting more and more angry. Next time, you have to catch that guy.
Tell him he's a big jerk. "
When I told them how much the newspaper paid me, my father suggested that I find a job to make up for the lack of salary. "Maybe you can leave.
Rent a car "once I was scolded by the local news editor for a little thing, and I told my father about it when I got home." They just ...
It's cruel to send you around without giving you money. "He told me that the anger came up." Next time you want to get stuck in that house.
This guy's neck tells him that he is a big jerk. "
My father is not keen on his life. He wanted to be a singer and an actor when he was young, but his Italian
The family is expecting the money. My father learned a trade, just as he should, and started his life.
A pre-written program.
My father is not satisfied with his life. When he was young, he wanted to be a singer and an actor, but his Italian family was waiting for money. dad
Dad learned a trade as expected by his family and lived a pre-designed life.
15 Although I seldom see my father, my brother who lives at home is with the old man every day. Chris
Although his occupation is management, he is more like a blue-collar worker than me. Occasionally, he will bring a lunch.
Wearing a beautiful sweater, I met my father at the construction site and shared sandwiches. Although I don't often see my father, my brother lives at home and accompanies him every day. Although Chris is a manager, he is more than just a manager.
I'm more like a blue collar. From time to time, he would pack a bag of lunch, wear an elegant woolen suit to meet his father at the construction site and have three meals with him.
Meiji.
A few months ago, when my father tried to change his life, Chris gave my father the greatest help. My dad
I want a job as a foreman of a civilian bricklayer with low physical requirements. There was a written test.
It includes questions and answers about construction work. My father has never done such a thing in forty years. each
In the morning before sunrise, Chris will iron shirts, and my father will sit at the table and read aloud.
His exercise paper is about how to wash the wall or how to build a tricky corner. Chris will suggest words and
Method.
It was Chris who gave his father the greatest help when he wanted to change his life a few months ago. Father wants to be an administrative department.
The bricklayer's foreman is not too demanding on physical strength. If you want to do this job, you must take a written test and answer some questions about construction work.
Title. Father hasn't done such a thing for 40 years. Every day before the sun comes out, Chris is ironing shirts, and his father is sitting in the kitchen for dinner.
At the dinner table, he read aloud the answers he had written about how to wash the wall and how to build a difficult corner.
Extended data:
bricklayer
He is a mason's assistant.
He helps masons.
He is a bricklayer-a big burly guy.
He is a bricklayer-a tall and strong young man.
After leaving school, he tried all kinds of jobs-bricklayer, cinema usher and coal miner.
After leaving school, he tried various jobs, such as bricklayer, cinema usher and coal porter.