 That's what I grew up with, though. You didn't get anywhere without hard work. What would your mom and dad do for a living, and what did you pick up from them? My mom was a personnel manager at the local Kmart. I also became the fire chief secretary. My dad worked in a hospital in Quincy, Mass., as a nuclear medicine tech and an x-ray tech. So what did you pick up from your mom that helped shape who you are now?