The family's increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren's Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman".
I never chose it, yet for most of what should have been my working life, I have endured repeated rejections and have been constantly forced to lower my expectations.
尽管在我大部分的工作生涯里，我忍受着再三的拒绝并不断降低期望值，可我也绝不做这样的选择。
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When the boys finally got caught, they were forced to pay for the goods by working at the store for twenty-five cents an hour.