America 1979

Chapter 4 You Go Be a Lawyer!

The family reunion was a success, and Dorothy's college living expenses and miscellaneous expenses were settled. Bill didn't mention that he planned to return to high school to continue his studies.

The entertainment for the men after dinner was to watch baseball replays, and the women were still chatting around the dining table. According to what Bill heard, the aunts and aunts seemed to be gossip about their co-workers' pornographic news, and they had no time to teach the children of puppy love them.

It’s not their fault. It’s difficult for a normal American family to maintain a healthy marriage after giving birth to a child. The daily life of soy, vinegar, oil and salt can kill the passion of love. When the wave of love fades, you find yourself The couple who swim naked naturally choose to find a new love.

Therefore, the biggest topic for middle-aged men and women is who is getting divorced again, and how pitiful the children are.

And when you meet a middle-aged man with a bad face, you are right to call his ex-wife a sour carrot (son of bitch, meaning son of bitch, son of a bitch), and you may even establish a deep relationship with this man. friendship.

When it was late at night and the replay of the baseball game was over, the whole family began to say goodbye again. Of course, the second uncle and grandparents did not forget the sudden disappearance of Anthony, and specially called him down from upstairs to scold him, telling him not to leave. After mixing with gangsters, finding a decent job is what he should do at his age.

Naturally, these words did not move Anthony. This unfortunate young man was only thinking about controlling Bath Avenue, and he couldn't listen to the words of the elders at all.

"Thank you today. Look at the second uncle's appearance. He's starting to pull his belt. Who does he think he is? My father is not so strict."

After going upstairs and entering the room, Anthony smiled and thanked his cousin.

Of the two bedrooms on the second floor, Anthony and Bill lived in the larger one, Dorothy the smaller one, and Bill's other brother, Neo Ferrari, lived in the utility room.There was barely room for a bed in that rambling room, to give poor Neo a place to sleep.

This is also impossible. The weekly salary of my uncle and aunt is between 120 and [-] US dollars. After deducting the monthly expenses and property taxes, there is not much left, and I cannot afford to change to a bigger house.

"Should be, who told you to be my brother." Bill fooled a few words first, and then asked him, "Can you find me a temporary job that can make money, I want to save some money for my sister so that she It’s less embarrassing when you’re in college.”

Bill's current job is to work as a security guard for a nightclub. He works every five days and two days off. His daily duty is to go to work in the afternoon and sit down in an inconspicuous corner of the nightclub.After the nightclub opened, once there was a fight and trouble, and the lobby manager felt that the business was affected, he would yell "Buffalo Bill", and the called Bill would walk aggressively from the corner to the scene of the incident. The situation decides whether to give the party a good beating.

In the best case, Bill's huge body overwhelmed both sides of the fight, and in the worst case, Bill had to knock out both sides before throwing them out.

The content of the job is very simple, and the amount of exercise is not much. Even working in a gray area, the salary is only 110 US dollars, which is less than 78 US dollars of the median weekly income in 130.

For the original owner who didn’t have to support his family, the $110 was basically spent by himself, but he didn’t save any money for the simple reason that it was all spent on food and drink.

This is also the biggest reason why Bill's body is so strong.

Since Bill traveled here, he has saved two weeks' wages, plus the fifty dollars he earned tonight, and he has more than 270 dollars in his hand.

Because of inflation all the way in the 70s, people in the middle and lower classes in the United States chose to consume first and then repay. Therefore, at the end of the 70s, with so much money in hand, Bill was considered a small rich man.

But this is not enough, my sister can get a loan for her college tuition, but the accommodation fee is not covered!Bill himself wanted to go back to high school and at least get a college degree. There are holes everywhere, and it can't be filled without money.

"Money? How much do you want? I have forty dollars, not enough for me to borrow."

Anthony couldn't understand the meaning of saving money. He only heard that his cousin needed to get some money for his cousin, so he took out all the money in his trouser pocket.

Bill waved his hand, "That's not what I mean, I want you to find me a temporary job, the kind that can make quick money."

These words made Anthony suddenly realize, "I understand, you finally got the hang of it, let me tell you, you and I will go to Bath Avenue to sell fans tomorrow, a piece is ten dollars, you get fifty cents, and sell thirty copies a day, That's fifteen dollars..."

He rambled on, describing the bright future of selling fans to his cousin Bill.

But that's not what Bill was thinking about. The Mexican community has almost squeezed out the market share of European-American gangsters in the fan market. Going to Bath Avenue to hang out now is equivalent to entering that kind of thing in [-], pure and innocent.

What's more, in the coming 80s, the FBI will deal heavy blows to the five major families in New York, and the federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York headed by Rudy Giuliani are always watching the mafia and Italian gangs , use black means to make money, and [-]% of them will be sent after a few years.

It seems that there is nothing to hope for from Anthony, so Bill decided to go to his colleagues who are also nightclub security tomorrow to see what they can do.

Bang bang bang!
Anthony was talking when someone knocked on the door suddenly. Bill opened the door and found that it was his sister Dorothy.

"Brother, shall we discuss when to meet the person who sponsored me?"

she asked.

Bill looked back at Anthony, and then replied to his sister: "When I get up in the morning tomorrow, we will go outside and find that person."

With Dorothy's cleverness, she could naturally guess that her brother was planning to let her apply for a student loan, but both of them were very wise not to disclose this matter in this family.

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It was ten o'clock Eastern time when Bill woke up the next day.

This is also in line with his work habits. After all, he goes to work in the afternoon and gets off work in the early morning, so he really can't get up every morning.

Anthony was very diligent and had already disappeared. Dorothy washed up early and waited for her brother to go outside to discuss tuition fees.

After putting on his old POLO shirt and brown trousers, Bill went downstairs, rubbed his face indiscriminately, put on a beige jacket that had been around for a long time, and went out with his sister.

"Why don't you apply to Columbia University and get a master's degree in law from this university?"

Walking in the lonely streets with no people, Bill brainwashed his sister like this.

"Do you only know Columbia University?" Dorothy looked at her brother helplessly, "The tuition of this university is too expensive, more than 1 dollars!"

Bill first responded to his sister's question, "Of course not, it's just because being a lawyer is indeed a good profession."

Different from the lawyers in the Xia Kingdom in the previous life, the lawyers in the United States are truly high-class professions. A lawyer who is proficient in business and participates in big cases charges by the minute.

It is not a dream to be a partner of a well-known law firm (equivalent to a shareholder of an ordinary company) with an annual salary of one million dollars.

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(End of this chapter)