personal challenge
...ings his family needed, like clothes for children and food to feed us. Maybe once a while we would have ice cream. My father managed to find a good career for himself working at a huge tomato plant in town where we lived. He started at the bottom of the list of the jobs the plants had available at that time. He took a slight pay decrease when he quit working in the tomato field, but his new job had many benefits for his family could use, like medical and dental plans. I was thirteen when my father managed to save enough money to put down a deposit on a house. Having a foundation to build on, my father quickly saved their money for future investments they planned to make. Through several years of hard work, my father managed to go up the ladder of jobs the company offered. At first he was a member of the janitorial crew. Next he worked at cleaning the canning machines, making sure they were free of old pieces of tomato. While he had that job, he learned enough about the way the assembly line ran that he was able to apply for and got a job as assistant foreman, the position he held when he retired. With each new job he got a little more money. He started i...