The fruits of our labor

My father is the son of a fabric salesman in the Cleveland area. Born and raised in a tumultuous home life, he was by no means the most privileged in his community.

Like many of his peers, he attended college and faced hefty student loans. He began his career humbly, as a bank teller, to make ends meet. My mother carried the brunt of the financial burden in the household as a potter.

This slim income paid a portion for my father to go to law school, much to the chagrin of his family; they doubted his ability to succeed and did not see him as law school material.

Thus, he was forced again to finance his goals and to motivate himself. He dropped out, motivated himself further and faced the music, finally returning to law school to graduate.

He found a career in the banking sector, working for Deloitte and Touche and Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Eventually, he started his own business in 1991, which has blossomed into multiple companies handling diverse responsibilities, hiring hundreds of employees and affecting communities in dozens of metropolitan areas across the United States. His order of business is to improve communities through various techniques.

We are of the 1 percent. We are very privileged and very lucky. Many people have found satisfaction in their economic state because they do what they love and find their own drive to success.

However, my father would not have been able to start his business if it weren’t for the various financial institutions that open the doors for many Americans .

The protest against JPMorgan this Tuesday in the Kelley School of Business was a contradiction. It was disgusting. JPMorgan, like many banking institutions, will continue to open doors for budding entrepreneurs everywhere.

Furthermore, your movement might very well have caused the loss of opportunities for students to find their careers. Your movement will serve as an obstruction to our future, an image of waning spirit and a lack of guise of the American way. If you want change, change Washington.

I am attending college to gain an education and propel myself in the same way as my father. I am here to find my way and to drive myself, and I am starting where he started.

I will no longer be of the 1 percent. But I will get there, and hopefully, by that point, the 1 percent will be 5 percent, and so on.

That should be the goal of every American — to expand their ability to live comfortably.
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— Jordan Fromm