

As time passed, Rose decided to take a break from academia and left graduate study to teach writing to underprivileged and underprepared students in Los Angeles. Rose went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University of Los Angeles and win a graduate fellowship in English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

This was a major turning point in Rose’s life. His senior year English teacher, Jack McFarland, pushed Rose to reevaluate himself and helped him get admitted as a probationary student to Loyola University. After a few years on the vocational education track, a teacher noticed that there was a mix up in Rose’s grades and had been misplaced in the vocational track, Rose began the following school year in the college prep track. Rose was placed in a vocational education track upon entering high school. Rose had his fair share of problems during his educational journey, The school he attended mixed up his test scores with another student with the same surname. Joe learned management, he found a way to improve the flow of work and to relieve some of the stress on the workers by having two workers in a unit learning each other's jobs so they can rotate and get longer, more frequent breaks. Joe did not learn about these machines in school but he had experience and adapted to their features. As time passed, Joe became more knowledgeable about the auto industry he began to solve problems that no one could solve and with every promotion he began to find new problems to solve like the redesign of the nozzle on a paint sprayer to eliminate costly and unhealthy overspray. Rose goes on to introduce Joe Meraglio, Rosies’ brother, Joe left school during ninth grade to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad, he then joined the navy, after that he decided to join his older brother at an auto shop where he spent 33 years of his life, Joe was a multi-tasker, he used to work at a very fast pace and found a way to remain unphased under pressure. Since Rosie quit school during the seventh grade, the restaurant was a place where she learned new things each day, it gave her something that school never gave her. She would try to figure out if the cooks were in a bad mood and if so, how can she ask them to return an order. Rosie did not stop there, she would put the emotional state of her co-workers into perspective as well. Rosie had her own ways for dealing with customers, she used to memorize the orders and knew how long each order is going to take, she used to study the room to see which customer needs a refill, who had a complaint about the food, and the ones who needed extra emotional attention, her tip depended on how well she responded to these kinds of situations.
