I was 36 years old and on “easy street” when I lost a job that should have lasted all of my life. It was, after all, my family’s business, and I had inherited it at the age of 27. But suddenly, on a Friday afternoon in March 1967, with a family, two company cars, a country club membership, a boat, a mortgage, and no money in the bank, I lost a proxy fight with my business partner, and I was out of a job.
It was the most frightening experience of my life. I had never been without a paycheck.
My father had made a business selling snacks: cookies, crackers, potato chips, and pretzels. As a youngster, I spent my summers working in the business, but I didn’t go to work full-time until I returned from the Korean War in 1953. I started as a route driver ...
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