![]() She was giving us an education on entrepreneurship, without even meaning to. Over the years, while my brothers and I were growing up, my mom had tried different multi-level marketing (MLM) opportunities and started several small businesses she could run out of our home to make an income. My dad, also named Robert Bortins, was a well-respected aerospace engineer, but my mom loved business. Like most single-income families, my stay-at-home mom was always looking for a side business to help with the family’s finances. ![]() Mom, all of my friends call their parents for money this is not how this is supposed to be.” Then I would say, “Mom, all of my friends call their parents for money this is not how this is supposed to be.” “Robert, if I could borrow from you $1,000 this week, in one month, I will pay you back in full and give you interest on top of it,” she would ask. I think, at least once a semester, my mom would call to see if she could borrow some money from me to buy inventory to sell at a local homeschool curriculum fair or state organization event. Read: “The Benefits of Homeschooling: A Graduate’s Perspective” This allowed me to get the highest paid co-op. In college, I would work for a semester and summer and then go to school for a semester. In those years, I experienced all kinds of living arrangements. I rented out a walk-in closet one year to sleep in. I slept on the top bunk at a family’s house for another year while their high schooler slept on the bottom. Eventually, I did get a car and, for one month, either lived out of it while it was still nice weather or crashed at different friends’ places either way, it saved me a month of rent. Between student loans, saving money from my co-op job, working while taking eighteen hours of Engineering credits, switching state residencies to get in-state tuition, and learning how to roll credit card debt from one card to another- I was able to graduate in three and a half years of full-time schooling over a five-and-a-half-year period. You’ll have to pay for the rest of college, yourself.” So, I went to the co-op office and asked what jobs they had available for the next semester.įortunately, because I was homeschooled, I was able to work as an engineering intern in my last two years of high school and had an impressive resume. He is going to homeschool your younger brothers, and I am going to try to make Classical Conversations ® a real business. He changed his mind, though, and quit his job. My mom said, “Robert, your dad is thinking about getting you a car for college. Typically, it’s something really life changing. We all have those moments in life that we remember so vividly. I was in my sophomore year and had just dropped off my tuition check at the registrar’s office when I got a phone call from my mom, Leigh Bortins. It was a beautiful, sunny day at Clemson University.
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