We have a friend who has, as they say, dropped out. He also works. He worked before he dropped out. He works now.
— Ed.
Friend: Well, it’s a workaday world, you know.
Ed: How do you mean?
Friend: You have to work to eat, keep a roof over your head, right?
Ed: I suppose so. But it’s different for you now, isn’t it?
Friend: I love to work. I always have.
Ed: But what’s different now that you’ve dropped out?
Friend: You’ve got to understand something about me first. My father had a lot to do with how I thought about the world. He was always afraid of starving. He was graduated from college during the Depression and it affected a lot of his attitudes. You had to work hard to survive and it wasn’t any fun. You had to go to college so you could do better. Competition was the game here and you needed a good education to come out on top.
