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In reply to the discussion: Name a successful Woman of Color [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Screw the idea you must be famous or rich to be a success.
I can from a family that started with nothing, literally. My father was an orphan in the Philippines from WWII where my grandfather was taken away by Japanese soldiers never to be seen again (he likely died in a forced labor camp) and my grandmother died shortly after he was born from complications with the childbirth because the Japanese refused her treatment at the hospital, probably because of who my grandfather was. My mom came from a dirt poor Lumbee Indian family in NC that had disowned her and kicked her out with the clothes on her back.
I made it through college on the Resrve GI Bill, grabtsband working almost full time during the school year and 50-60 hours a week when school wasn't in session, I had a successful career in the Army Reseve retiring at E-7 including a tour in Afghanistan and 2 years after that on active duty helping to train other units that were about to go, I did 10 years in law enforcement and turned that experience into a great privte sector job doing security training and background investigations for a company that does government contract work, and I recently upped that experience into a small private consulting company doing some of the same training for other companies and police departments that want it.
I consider myself to be pretty dammed successful, thank you. Success doesn't have to be and should be measured in fame or fortune.
Too damm many people have a warped sense of what success is and sell their own achievements and success way short. Don't do that people.
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