What Did Your Dad Teach You?

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Happy Father's Day!

My Dad taught me that early Saturday mornings are a great time to work…on the house no matter how late you stayed up the night before.

My Dad taught me that getting a legal job at 14 is possible if you sell it just right and ask enough people. (My first job was working at a Quizno's as the Flyer boy, on a busy afternoon I quickly got promoted to ASM- assistant sandwich maker)

My Dad taught me that nothing in life was free. If we wanted in on the family vacation we paid our part of the trip.

My Dad taught me that bad (and good) decisions have significant consequences. (The real life application of which I will leave out, but it involves a $1,000 geo metro)

My Dad taught me that there are opportunity costs. Vacations cost much more than the expense of the vacation. While my friends were off playing on summer, spring, and winter brakes, I learned that a lot of money could be earned while others were playing.

My Dad taught me that serving others is the only way to grow. (You only get what you give.) A hard lesson for a young man to grasp.

My Dad taught me that a college education is not an option. Dad got a degree in Chemical engineering. As a kid you don't realize all degrees are not created equal. (Or require the same output of effort) My Siblings and I were expected to pay for and graduate from the college of our choice and the degree of our choice. (It turns out that expectation had been instilled in him as well and in the two generations before him.)

My Dad taught me that two or three summer jobs are better than student dept. ( I do not look back on my college years fondly.)

My Dad taught me to save. Owning a car costs more than the car its self. You have to have the money to fix the car too.

My Dad taught me that a family can move across the country for a career opportunity, start over, and turn out better than they were before.

My Dad taught me that "Work Ethic" is a term tossed around liberally but few have the ability to put their head down and really work when it gets hard or uncomfortable.

My Dad taught me that work can be fun a large percent of the time when you are doing something that you love and working with great people.

My Dad taught me that it is OK to come home from work and slow down long enough to let your family know THEY are the most special thing in life and in the end THEY are the only thing that matters.

Thanks Dad

What did your Dad Teach you?
 
My dad taught me a sense of humor. Otherwise not much else except he also taught me by his example that I did not want to grow up to be like him. Not sour grapes but just the honest truth.
 
At our first meeting after five years of him absent in my life, the one thing I will always remember my Father saying:

"David - it doesn't matter what you do; your wife will probably not like it. Do what you want to do regardless of what your wife thinks."

Words of wisdom for leadership - thanks Dad!
 
My dad taught me

1. Formal schooling is not the best education.

2. Formal churching does not make you saintly

3. The only way to be happy is to be self sufficient and earn your own keep.

4. Never finance anything other than a house and don't bite off more house than you can easily afford.

5. When you turn 18 you start paying rent or move out. (I moved out. )

6. All holidays were taken over by Hallmark and he refused to participate. The only holiday that Dad would celebrate was Ground Hog Day and that's because Hallmark hadn't got to that one yet. Mom always got a nice Ground Hogs Day gift but never Christmas or birthday gifts.

7. Hank Williams was the only music worth listening to.

8. You only drive Fords ( die hard Union guy) until he finally gave up on Ford and bought a Honda late in his life.
 
My dad taught me 1. Formal schooling is not the best education. 2. Formal churching does not make you saintly 3. The only way to be happy is to be self sufficient and earn your own keep. 4. Never finance anything other than a house and don't bite off more house than you can easily afford. 5. When you turn 18 you start paying rent or move out. (I moved out. ) 6. All holidays were taken over by Hallmark and he refused to participate. The only holiday that Dad would celebrate was Ground Hog Day and that's because Hallmark hadn't got to that one yet. Mom always got a nice Ground Hogs Day gift but never Christmas or birthday gifts. 7. Hank Williams was the only music worth listening to. 8. You only drive Fords ( die hard Union guy) until he finally gave up on Ford and bought a Honda late in his life.

JDEasy is your daddy!
 
My dad taught me to have a working remote....I was the designated channel changer and he could never watch a whole TV show. He taught me a bank can want your business one day and take you on a rafting trip and the next day sell you down the same river.
 
Like anyone else, dad and I have issues we both agree and don't agree on, but the big ones were honesty and work ethic. Also how to have a sense of humor, when to be serious and when not to. How to treat others.

I'm blessed to have a GREAT dad.
 
My dad taught me that while he was stationed up north he attended college and hard work usually paid off but only if combined with both street smarts and book smarts. He taught me to never be ashamed of being a book worm and at the same time taught me how to shoot 1 MOA at 300 yards. He taught me to not worry so much, although i inherited my mothers dna on that. He also taught while respecting others that deserved it to also never ever let someone confuse my kindness with weakness.
 

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