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Message: [QUOTE="Hey Adrien!, post: 3649729, member: 5787"] My mom’s adopted so don’t know much about her family, but I’m proud of my paternal grandfather. His parents moved to America from Poland, as a kid he left school after 8th grade to work in the coal mines of western PA. Stopped mining in his 30s and took an aptitude rest that helped him get a gig to train him as an engineer. Got hired by a company and moved his family to Stamford, CT. It’s not an uncommon story, but it’s cool that in the 1950s, someone with almost no formal education could work their way up to become an engineer. [/QUOTE]