My Parents Told Me to Give My $30,000 College Fund to My Sister — or Drop Out and Stay Home to Clean

through sheer repetition, that time has a value and that value can be converted into money and that money can be converted, if you’re disciplined enough about it, into choices.

I was deeply disciplined.

By twenty, I had saved thirty thousand dollars.

Not from luck. Not from gifts or inheritances or a stroke of timing. From four years of double shifts,continue reading …