Robert Becker : Old Fashioned Responsibility

Then we are down to the last two tasks of the day. He would have to go turn in/pick up applications for jobs. This was a very tedious task seeing as most of these job were on the outskirts of the city, so many miles of peddling his bike. He would sometimes ride all the way across town just to submit his barren resume. Only to later be rejected. Finally he would get his dinner

and got a job as a waiter. Soon after this period of time he got a

I have worked on my family farm ever since I was fourteen years old. This is where I have gained my love of agriculture. My responsibilities include taking care of my show calves, working cattle, helping with harvesting and planting, and assisting my father with any other needs around the farm. The experiences I have gained through working on my family’s farm will help lead me through the rest of my life.

Then, he was a curb boy at Gibson's Drive Inn and at Britt's Drive Inn. He worked at Christopher's Grocery driving a delivery truck, and his junior year he worked in the parts department of a Mercury dealership. His first job after graduation was selling produce for a banana company. December 8, 1958, he started his first full-time job at Coker Trading Post, and he worked there for exactly three years, quitting on December 8, 1961. On December 12, 1961, he started working at Dufour International, selling trucks, but on December 19, 1973, he quit his job and started working full-time for the Air National Guard.

took up crapshooting. All of these odd jobs brought in enough money to feed Mama Lucy

sold his stock and implements and turned to selling real estate in St. Louis. He failed again

his money and soon found himself hard up for cash. It was because of this that

He always enjoyed picking up the check when we went on dates but I knew that most of the money he earned at his job as a Salesman for Winters Auto and Trucks Sales was mostly used to help his mothers and brothers.

his parents working William also worked so he could watch silent films free. Well one

I understand that he was trying to prove to himself and others that he could drill better than a machine but did he forget that he had a family to support

He was paying out of pocket for everything because the government kept on denying his request for disability and social security income. I remember always seeing him take fifteen pills at a time with every meal he would eat.

He went to work when he was sixteen, and for the next forty years he worked in a coal factory. Then he worked in a steel mill for another twenty years. He stopped working only because the steel mill closed and he was too old to find another job.

respectable job to carry on his affair with Carrie. He even stole from his longtime employers to be with Carrie. In return she

He worked as a keeper of a market. Then he was a farm worker who took care of parks and farm

No matter how tired he was from his long work week, he would be up bright and early Saturday morning to attend any of our sporting events, tournaments, or recitals, and then chauffeur us and our friends to slumber parties or school dances. He was always very protective and kept a watchful eye over us.