The story began
in 1981 in San Francisco, California. Linda and Chris Gardner lives in a small
apartment with their son who was 5 years old, Christopher. Chris is a salesman
who spent all the family savings to buy a franchise to sell scanners bones
(Bone Density Scanner) portable. This scanner is capable of producing better
images than X-rays, but most doctors who met Chris thought that the price was
too expensive. Linda, his wife, worked as a laborer in a laundry. This small
family began to disintegrate when they realized that they could not afford the
rent and the bills are piling up. The situation is compounded by the habit of
Chris who had parked haphazardly. Because they could not pay the ticket, Chris
finally seized cars. The climax, leaving Chris and Linda went to New York City.
Initially he wanted to take and Christopher, but failed at the request of
Chris.
In desperation,
Chris accidentally meet someone who brings a red Ferrari. Chris asked the man,
what kind of work he is doing so that they can buy a luxury car? The man
replied that he was a stockbroker. Since then Chris decided to make a career as
a stockbroker.
Chris received
an offer unpaid internship at a brokerage firm Dean Witter Reynolds that
promises employment for apprentices best. During an unpaid internship, Chris
began to run out of money. Eventually he was expelled from the house rent and
become homeless. For several days he was sleeping in public places, but then he
decided to sleep in a halfway house Glide Memorial Chruch. Due to space
constraints, they have to queue up to get a room. Sometimes they succeed,
sometimes fail and forced to sleep outside. Poverty and the homeless-an
increasingly pushing Chris's determination to carry out duties diligently and
get a job at Dean Witter Reynolds.
At the end of
the story, Chris managed to be the best participant and accepted to work there.
A few years later, he founded the brokerage firm itself, Gardner Rich. In 2006,
he sold a small stake and managed to get millions of dollars from the sale.
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