Monday Motivation….. Feb 23, 2026 (787)
For two decades, Fred Vautour scrubbed floors in silence. While the campus of Boston College buzzed with ambition and privilege by day, Fred worked the graveyard shift by night — pushing a mop through dimly lit halls, driven not by glory, but by love.
He wasn’t chasing wealth. He was chasing opportunity.
Boston College had a rare policy: if a staff member’s child got accepted, tuition was waived. No shortcuts. No handouts. Just a possibility.
Fred and his wife clung to that hope. They raised five kids under a single, quiet mantra: “College isn’t a dream. It’s your future.”
And one by one, those kids made it — not to just any college, but to the very one their father cleaned. While Fred polished floors, his children polished essays, aced exams, and earned their place.
Acceptance letters lined the walls at home like trophies. Not of wealth, but of willpower.
By 2018, Fred’s nights of unseen labor had yielded nearly $700,000 in education — not from scholarships, but from sheer grit and policy.
“You live for your kids,” he once said. “So they can have a better life than I had.”
He never wore a cap and gown. But through them, he graduated five times.
Turns out, you don’t need a hedge fund to leave a legacy.
Sometimes, it’s enough to just keep showing up — every night, every shift, every dream!
Have a great week ahead..!
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