softwareNerd Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 (edited) By softwareNerd from Software Nerd,cross-posted by MetaBlog "Rags to riches" is my favorite type of story. This one is not about money, but it's in the same spirit: the refusal to accept one's "station" in life. It is about ambition; about wanting to be more than one was "born into"; about not accepting the man-made as the metaphysical, even if it's really difficult to change. In a way, it is also a story of how great the USA really is. This true story is about a young 19-year old immigrant, working as a farm laborer in the 1980s. Twenty years later, he's an assistant professor of neurosurgery and oncology and director of the brain-tumor stem-cell laboratory at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Edited November 10, 2007 by softwareNerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Sophia~ Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 I never get tired of hearing about such stories. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted November 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 You're welcome Sophia. Consider it payment for the extraordinary artists you find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Sophia~ Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 You're welcome Sophia. Consider it payment for the extraordinary artists you find It serves the same purpose doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted November 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2007 Yes, it does. Thanks, Sophia. Here's another example of a physician who started in some pretty poor circumstances: Dr. Ben Carson, who writes and talks about being ambitious. He speaks of a childhood in the projects, his mom was a single mom working janorial type jobs. He ended up as a pediatric neurosurgeon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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