[100 Challenge] DanJi’s reading_69

WHISTLE BLOWER
My journey to Silicon Valley and fight for justice at Uber
Susan Fowler
Publisher: Viking
Published: 18 FEB, 2020

I spent my childhood in a town called Janelle, Arizona. My father was a pastor with seven brothers. My father had to work as a door-to-door salesman because he was poor. Still, as a Bible scholar who was good at languages, he learned Hebrew, ancient Greek, and Arabic, as well as Russian and Chinese, to go on missionary work, and he liked it, so he learned German, French, and Spanish. He always held a pen and studied until late. Most of all, my dad wanted to become a writer, but he sent some manuscripts to Christian publishers, but they did not lead to publication.
As a child, I thought I was normal and happy, but after growing up, my miserable situation sometimes came to me. I wanted to be a writer. When I read books, I thought it was great to be in a different world from book to book. My mom could no longer teach my sister and me because she was working, but we were teenagers late to school. I worked during the day and read books at night. One day, when the dark days of reading a dream continued, something clicked in my head. When I look at the great people in the book, it is the story of people who 'did something' in their lives, not of 'just what happened' (borrowing from I.J. Berlin's expression). I realized that I had to be the subject of my own life.