Originally Posted by
Doug Fattic
When I was apprenticing in England, I got guff for downgrading my social standing by learning a manual skill.
I didn't think anything of it at the time, but 45 years later, I wonder if participating in my high school's 'Professional Internship Program' by apprenticing with Colin Lang building bicycle frames instead of with some lawyer or doctor is what kept me out of Brown University in the '70s.
I have zero regrets, however!
