Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Keywords
Walter Angst, Swiss American Historical Society, autobiography
Abstract
Since I was two years older than my school chums and knew that I could not afford to go on to higher education, I quit secondary school after the second year. My dream was to become a graphic artist, devising posters. My father was afraid for me: if I would indulge in an artist's life, I surely would go to pot! He proposed instead that I learn the trade of a barber or, as a concession, a cabinet-maker. Consequently, I was apprenticed to a master cabinetmaker who promptly dismissed me after a few weeks as being too weak. After a two-month stint with another cabinet-maker who gravely abused and exploited me without ever teaching me anything, I was so much at loggerheads with my father that we actually came to blows.
Recommended Citation
Angst, Walter
(1988)
"Enduring Apprenticeships,"
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 24:
Iss.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol24/iss2/6