And how many people really end up in success? I mean sure a lot of people do well in life but a lot of America is just people sitting at home on welfare. I'd rather be a janitor than nothing and relying on the government.

You should teach kids to be the best they can be and try hard; making fun of 'the little people' in the process is cruel and unneccesary.

Nothing about a person's job dictates success. Life is what a person makes it. It isn't about the prestige or salary. What if someone really enjoys janitorial work? Who are you to say it isn't valuable? Besides, I bet you'd really appeciate janitors after a week without them at your workplace, yuck

Who are you to judge what's "successful" or not? Maybe some people enjoy being janitors. It's like those assholes who walk into that store you're working in and pointing you out to their kids "study at school or you'll end up like him", which is a load of bullshit. If nobody was a janitor, you'd be teaching in a filthy cesspit as opposed to a well-maintained, clean and orderly building. But by all means, if you think nobody should be a janitor, the responsibility of cleaning can always fall upon you instead, without extra pay.

Personally, we should be teaching the future of this world to be better people, not more successful. Success isn't anything if you're a bad person. I'd rather my daughter be a good hearted person and work an average job than be some successful asshole.

There is absolutely no shame in being a janitor to support your family or yourself. The shame is in not even trying for a job and sitting on your ass waiting for a government check. If there were more hardworking members of society, if everyone had the work ethic of that janitor, society would have way less problems. There's plenty of dead beats with the "oh that job is beneath me" attitude. There's nothing wrong with striving for something better, but judging other people based on the fact that they have a lower paying job just makes you an asshole. There's plenty of millionaires who don't have one tenth of the work ethic of that janitor.

I'd rather my daughter be a good hearted person AND be successful in a great job.

In "the game of life" the word successful means (to all of those with a normal well rounded intelligent view of the world) someone who earns the paycheck they recive and who works to support their family instead of relying on other to do ot for them. That is all this man is doing and by raising a daughter who in high school isn't embarressed to claim him (because a lot high schoolers don't speak with pride about their parents no mtter what they do.) shows that this man is doing an amazing job raising his kids. So if he is doing all that and you still say he isn't successful, please tell me what exsactly he's supposed to be doing to satisfy you.

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Well look at you, just as judgemental as OP. Just because OP is a teacher doesn't mean they're not highly qualified. Teaching is such an important job, I'd happily get a Phd and stay teaching. Children need to be taught by people who are highly qualified and who actually have common sense not people who go into teaching because they think it's easy and don't care about the impact they have on children's lives. It's thanks to attitudes like yours that people don't understand the importance of teaching and people who are highly qualified don't always consider it as a career.