My mother and father finished college, and they both landed decent jobs. Nothing fabulous, but it’s a stable source of income that helps pay the bills. I think my mother started out as a secretary somewhere but because of conflicts with colleagues, she went AWOL and got herself a job in a law firm as a paralegal. Because she was smart enough, one of her lawyer bosses asked her if she wanted to become a lawyer, even agreeing to shoulder the schooling fees. My mother declined, because she was sort of the breadwinner in the family at the time; she…