02-03-2005, 04:01 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-03-2005, 04:08 AM by Occhidiangela.)
Nystul,Feb 2 2005, 07:36 PM Wrote:Bill Cosby was a high school dropout from the projects, and this was before the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing. I doubt he has forgotten. By the time he had his big break in comedy, his work ethic had gotten him a lot further than most people from that type of background.
Some people are fortunate enough to have rich parents they can live off of until age 30. For the rest of us in the United States, getting a job isn't so much an optional thing. I have a friend with a computer science degree who has a wife and kids and was working two jobs: sales clerk at Best Buy, and loading freight into semis at UPS. They may not be the best resume builders, but they won't hurt. And in the meantime, he actually has an address and phone number to put on his applications, instead of "homeless and unemployed". The thing is, some of the blue collar jobs are hiring as many people as they can get every week, good economy or bad (of course the people quit every week too, but the opportunity is there). If everyone who settled for those jobs was sitting at home waiting for their 1 in 100 interview in their dream job, the industrial economy here would not be doing too well. Maybe in Europe it's a different ballgame.
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Bill Cosby attended Temple University.
EDIT. I stand corrected, I thought he was a graduate.
Quote:Cosby left high school without earning his diploma and joined the U.S. Navy in 1956. While enlisted he passed a high school equivalency exam, and after his discharge he received an athletic scholarship to Temple University in Philadelphia in 1961. During his sophomore year he left Temple to entertain at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village, New York City, where he began to establish a trademark comedic style characterized by a friendly and accessible stage persona and a relaxed, carefully timed delivery
IIRC, Mr Cosby was a corpsman. Being a sailor in the 50's entailed considerable manual labor, even moreso than it does today. He made his money the old fashioned way: he earned it. Then, instead of blowing it through his nose on drugs, he started a family, stayed married, and kept making more money than he spent. I bet he invested wisely as well.
Anyone begrudging him his riches -- he found a style of comedy that struck a sympathetic chord with many audiences -- strikes me as mean spirited and jealous.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete