Up from a low income class family/Carlos Pueblo

Up from a low income class family/Carlos Pueblo

At my retirement, I have plenty of time to think of my life especially after watching

the old Japanese movies which are well preserved on Youtube nowadays. I don’t dare

to mention it as a class struggle; however, it has been a smooth journey in my entire

life up from a low income class family in Taiwan to an financial independent class in

the United States. My conclusion is that I have had plenty of opportunity to understand

the threat of poverty, my parents’ persistent will to support the necessary school education

, and coming to the wonderful nation of America. I’ll explain.

I was lucky to be accepted to enter a government sponsored institution to get a teacher’s

certificate for the secondary school and obtained a teaching assistantship for my graduate

study in the U.S. thereafter. After 23 years work, I have accumulated enough money to

maintain a life style of on and off work for additional 17 years. With my frugal habit, I am

very confident to manage my retirement fund to the end of my life.

I don’t watch television to be influenced by the commercial of rich and famous. I don’t

read newspaper with a cost. I only watch free movies on the Youtube, political talk show

of my favorite both in Taiwan and the U.S., listen to piano and Japanese Enka music. I

write my journal on Google blog, and I visit my pet dogs friends and their owners in the

morning. Every stage of my life, I give up my old circle of friends and try to live without

any influence of the old friends. Yes, I am not normal and I believe that there are many

old men like me.

Therefore, I don’t need to worry about not enough money to pay the necessity. The rest of

our family members are all in financial independent status. I am under medicare protection

for years, Amy will be in 4 years, and both of our children are under their companies’

healthcare. Thanks God, we’re healthy without major illness.

Once I am at a better class of my life, I feel happier of my life and lucky that I have no more

Anxiety at all.