How were you raised?

After reading my story you'll all realize that things were no different north of the border back in the good old days. I come from a family of 2 older brothers and 2 younger sisters. When we were young we were taught in no uncertain terms to respect your elders and their property, work hard all your life, stay the hell out of real trouble (the kind that lands ya in jail) and I think most importantly take responsibility for your actions both good and bad. My father was working the oil rigs when my brothers and me were born then graduated to start up crews for natural gas processing plants all over Alberta and my mother was a stay at home mom essentially raising 5 kids. None of us ever screwed with mom cuss she'd come down on ya like a sack of **** then sick the old man on us with the clothes brush (it was 2 feet long), they're both 75 now and still kicking. We bounced around the province for a few years years till finally settling down in a town just outside Calgary where the old man finally got a long term job with a company that he eventually retired with. Growing up we all had the bare minimum as far as food and clothes and toys, more or less we lead a hand to mouth existence. Both my brothers are engineers and one of my sister is also and the other a technician so we all worked hard and none of have ever been without a job or collected unemployment, something we discovered while resently comparing notes. I started out at age 13 working in a shop on motorcycles and snowmobiles at night and on weekends then after high school at age 17 went to tech school and took a course in aircraft maintenance. Worked in that for a year and realized there's no money in this so went back to tech and took Heavy Duty mechanic and got my first ticket in that. Did some more night schooling and got a Millwright ticket and over time got a degree in Mechanical Engineering. I was finally finished with stinking school at age 35 or 36 but was still working my *** off the whole time mostly to support my loving wife and our 2 kids. The Millwright ticket was the best of all and with paid double overtime 6 figures/year was relatively easy which really pissed off my brothers as they plodded along at 65-70K/year. My father who never had more than a high school diploma always said I'd never make the money of an engineer mostly cuss his father was a drilling engineer so he used that to back his argument. He stopped saying that BS around about when I turned 40. Finished my career off as a specialist and at age 52 said "SCREW IT I QUIT.