[00:00.800]--- Lesson 31 Success story
[00:06.040]--- First listen and then answer the question.
[00:12.400]--- What was Frank's first job?
[00:17.920]Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.
[00:27.160]Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.
[00:39.080]It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.
[00:48.840]He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own.
[00:58.360]In his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes.
[01:05.040]At that time he had two helpers.
[01:09.160]In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.
[01:19.360]Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success.
[01:26.600]He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.
[01:32.000]She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle!
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