Mr. Hsu, the Taiwanese chairman and founder of venture capital firm H&Q Asia Pacific, told his hosts that this "is sort of the saddest story that he has such a high-level of education, and yet the country cannot afford to give him a good job." - Boo Chanco, "College-Educated shoe-shine boy Saddens Investor"
Photograph Originally Uploaded by Dennis Villegas
They used to shine-shoes for a living
"Chief Justice Panganiban graduated with honors from Juan Luna Elementary School and Mapa High School, which are both public schools. To support his studies, he hawked newspapers, peddled cigarettes and shined shoes in the streets of Sampaloc in Manila. During his college days, he sold textbooks to his classmates and bibles to his professors and university officials. The youngest of four children, he was born from impoverished parents who died while he was still in school." - http://www.supremecourt.gov.ph/
Chief Justice Panganiban is one of the few prominent personalities who have similar humble beginnings - working as a "shoe-shine boy". The list include Victorio Soliven who owns the big real estate firm V.V.Soliven, Senator Richard Gordon and business Tycoon, Ambassador Antonio L. Cabangon Chua.
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