For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping. ↗
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. ↗
The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US. ↗
Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods. ↗