Overview
- The SCAN Group CEO recounts that his newly arrived mother answered a handwritten “babysitter needed” notice in their apartment building in the 1970s.
- He says the job expanded from caring for one child into an informal daycare run from their small apartment for neighbors.
- According to his post, she earned about $200 per week and saved $10,000 in a year, which became the down payment on their first U.S. home.
- He frames the story against his father’s anesthesiology residency and moonlighting to help cover expenses.
- The account has been widely shared and praised online, with outlets noting it is his recollection rather than independently verified reporting.