“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said     1     I faced disappointment. “     2     you can carry on, one day something good will happen.”  

After graduating from college, I decided to try for a job in a radio station     3     work my way up to a sports announcer. I went to Chicago, knocked on the door of every station,     4     got turned down every time. 

In one studio, a kind lady advised me to go to the countryside and find a small station,     5     big stations couldn’t risk hiring an inexperienced person. I returned to my hometown,     6     I was turned down even when I applied for a job in a sports department of a store. It wasn’t long     7     I decided to try my luck again in another city. In Davenport, Iowa, the program director of a company got me beside a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary game.  

    8     I began to work in the company, I’ve always thought of my mother’s words: “Keep on trying     9     some day you succeed. Something wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous failure.”     10     job I later have done, I always think about what my mother once taught me, which acts as my guideline in life.