Get Rich Slow

摘要

Michaellee-chin was looking at a $2,500 second-year tuition bill at Hamilton, Ontario's Mc-Master University. All he had left of the money from jobs on cruise ships and in an aluminum plant was $600. He couldn't call home to Jamaica for cash. His parents, grocery store clerks, had his seven younger brothers and a sister to raise. So Lee-Chin staked $400 on a plane ticket to Kingston, Jamaica and called on then-Prime Minister Hugh Lawson Shearer, intent on landing a scholarship from the gov- ernment. He showed Shearer his impressive transcripts and made an impassioned pitch: If Jamaica expected him to bring his skills back home, it ought to ensure he learned some. He left with a $ 15,000 check. "From an early age my mother told me there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself," says Lee-Chin. "So I did."