In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.
At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.