original_query: What were the next three years like for Roberts after being dismissed from his job?
query: What were the next three years like for Robert Roberts after being dismissed from his apprenticeship in 1926?
answer: After being dismissed in 1926, Roberts spent the next three years unemployed.  He used this time to attend evening classes in French, social history, and English literature, and founded the Salford Esperanto Society in 1927.