A 54-year-old custodian just graduated from the college he cleaned at night
I read this when it was first published and while it's impressive for sure this is easily overlooked:<p>> Decades earlier, in 1982, Vaudreuil received an associate’s degree in aeronautical engineering, but didn’t pursue his chosen career in the struggling airline industry.<p>So he had significant prior training in a related field.<p>Also, maybe that's my European bias, but I'm not so thrilled about this story because to my mind it <i>shouldn't</i> have been so hard for him in the first place to get that education, and some more aid after a normal failure in life.<p>I mean, are we making lives hard so that we can then celebrate the few(!) successes as if they prove anything? Like, that making lives in one of the richest countries in the entire million year history of mankind hard is a good thing?<p>This is like a Roman circus, we throw people into the arena and then celebrate the few who make it out again as "heroes".<p><i>"Are You Not Entertained?"</i>  (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqJFIJ5lLs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqJFIJ5lLs</a>)