My family owns a hardware store in Long Beach and ever since I started working there at age 15 I was told by everyone who would come in that I was the future boss. So from that day I prepared for this new role, taking on responsibilities and managing the shop when my father was away. I am gaining new insights into the skills and values ​​I need for this role to live up to my father's standards of running a business. I think as individuals we learn as much through reverse socialization as we do any other socialization. It would be easy to say that an example of this would be children teaching their parents about technology, but one thing I often learn from younger generations is to not be afraid to achieve something greater, like going to college. Kids today are more driven to go to college, but when I was in elementary school I didn't even know what that really was. My family consists exclusively of girls when it comes to children. There are no boys and I think if we had a boy in our family, he would already be running the shop on his own, but there would be higher standards for him, or for me as a boy. As a kid I think I'm expected to know everything about hardware, whereas I'm more expected to know how to run the shop as far as office work goes. I think if I were the opposite sex there would be a lot more pressure on me