I wasn’t the smartest guy in school.
I was stuck in special education for most of our life, because I was a slow learner! Once I l earned something, I retained it forever, but our expertise wasn’t the best. After graduation, i signed up for HVAC classes. Another guy from our class, had also signed up for HVAC classes. He told myself and others I was too dumb to be an HVAC serviceman, and he convinced a couple of the other guys that I wasn’t smart enough to be an HVAC serviceman. I couldn’t think how nasty they were to me. I was resting outside the classroom one afternoon. I didn’t want to go in before the teacher showed up, because of how badly I was being treated. When the HVAC teacher showed up, he asked why I wasn’t inside the classroom. I told him I wasn’t ready to go in yet. He asked if the guys were teasing me. I looked at him, because I didn’t suppose anyone noticed what was going on. I explained that I was a slow learner, although I retained what I l earned. He offered to help myself and others out after classes and help myself and others with the HVAC lessons. It was to be our secret… By the end of the class, I was in the top 10% of our HVAC classes. I passed the HVAC certification at the top of the class, thanks to our teacher. I even got the coveted apprenticeship in our teacher’s HVAC corporation, because I reminded our teacher of him when he started out in HVAC.