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My Dad told me about working around Salinas in his late teens. He said it was back breaking labor but was better than chopping cotton back in Oklahoma and Arkansas. On that subject he took me the summer before my junior year and put me in the field. I lasted maybe a half hour (of which 29 minutes was pissing and moaning). Junior year grades improved significantly and by senior year I was president of the senior class. Nothing like bloody hands to convince you the worth of a good education.