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Timebinder, v. 2, issue 2, whole no. 6, Spring 1946
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I have made my living working at many different trades, essaying anything that presented an opening, in order to gain experience and skill, and trying to find that which I liked best. I’ve specialized in my later years in office work, as being the most congenial, and best fitting my talents and capacities. I know I am capable, and that I give the best that is in me to my job and my employer, giving my work an unbounded enthusiasm; willing and anxious to co-operate in every possible way to further my employer’s interests; always ready to take part in the extra-activities of my shop or office; often initiating these activities. I have letters of recommendation stating that “his work is excellent; his speed of work exceptional; his cooperation of the highest”. But I have never become a top-notcher or a high-salaried man in any place that I have worked. With two exceptions, I’ve never been a “boss” in any of my places of employment. I am “almost” an essential man in my job. I am distinctly a family-type man. I want a good home; a loving family about me. Yet I could not make a success of my marriage, although I do believe that I have been (especially in the later years, after it was almost too late) a good father. I have three wonderful children, who seem to feel, and often say, that I am one “best Daddy in the world”. Yet I know that I have failed to give them what all children need more than anything else in the world – than feeling of inner security which comes from a good, decent home filled with love and devotion; without bickerings and recriminations, ant with ethical and religious training. They have had this to some extent, I can honestly say, but not to the fullest measure that should have been theirs. I have striven to give them all the best possible education, commensurate with my financial means and their own endeavors. I have tried to encourage and help them to go to college and to learn the definite professions for which they were best fitted, as well as the general all-around knowledge that makes a complete man and woman. I have tried to be as generous as my limited financial means would allow so that they could have the little extras that mean so much to a college student. I have tried, while being generous with advice and counsel and encouragement, to teach them the greater lessons of knowing HOW to make their own decisions. I have tried to make them independent thinkers, knowing how to view all sides of a question so that they may assemble all available data before coming to a -5-
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I have made my living working at many different trades, essaying anything that presented an opening, in order to gain experience and skill, and trying to find that which I liked best. I’ve specialized in my later years in office work, as being the most congenial, and best fitting my talents and capacities. I know I am capable, and that I give the best that is in me to my job and my employer, giving my work an unbounded enthusiasm; willing and anxious to co-operate in every possible way to further my employer’s interests; always ready to take part in the extra-activities of my shop or office; often initiating these activities. I have letters of recommendation stating that “his work is excellent; his speed of work exceptional; his cooperation of the highest”. But I have never become a top-notcher or a high-salaried man in any place that I have worked. With two exceptions, I’ve never been a “boss” in any of my places of employment. I am “almost” an essential man in my job. I am distinctly a family-type man. I want a good home; a loving family about me. Yet I could not make a success of my marriage, although I do believe that I have been (especially in the later years, after it was almost too late) a good father. I have three wonderful children, who seem to feel, and often say, that I am one “best Daddy in the world”. Yet I know that I have failed to give them what all children need more than anything else in the world – than feeling of inner security which comes from a good, decent home filled with love and devotion; without bickerings and recriminations, ant with ethical and religious training. They have had this to some extent, I can honestly say, but not to the fullest measure that should have been theirs. I have striven to give them all the best possible education, commensurate with my financial means and their own endeavors. I have tried to encourage and help them to go to college and to learn the definite professions for which they were best fitted, as well as the general all-around knowledge that makes a complete man and woman. I have tried to be as generous as my limited financial means would allow so that they could have the little extras that mean so much to a college student. I have tried, while being generous with advice and counsel and encouragement, to teach them the greater lessons of knowing HOW to make their own decisions. I have tried to make them independent thinkers, knowing how to view all sides of a question so that they may assemble all available data before coming to a -5-
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