STAYED AFLOAT SELLING NOW HE FACES MANUAL
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He is seen carrying his suitcase to work because he doesn't have a home. He must leave work early every day so that he is there by 5:00 in the evening along with his son so that he may be assured of a place to sleep. He is forced at one point to stay in a bathroom at a train station, and must scramble from work every day to the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, which offers shelter to the homeless. He is rendered homeless because he can't pay his rent. When he thinks he is 'stable,' he finds that he has lost $600 when the government takes the last bit of money in his bank account for taxes. During that period, Chris goes through a lot of hardship personally and professionally. Without any money or a wife, but committed to his son, Chris sees a chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, offering a more promising career at the end of a six-month unpaid training period. Their son Christopher ( Jaden Smith) stays with Chris because he and his wife both know that he will be able to take better care of him. This white elephant financially breaks the family, bringing troubles to his relationship with his wife Linda ( Thandiwe Newton), who leaves him and moves to New York where she has taken a job in a pizza parlor.

In 1981, in San Francisco, the smart salesman and family man Chris Gardner ( Will Smith) invests the family savings in Osteo National bone-density scanners, an apparatus twice as expensive as an x-ray machine but with a slightly clearer image. But some unexpected issues arise which leads to the Gardners possibly not making it through this phase of their lives financially, something he has to hide from his superiors at Dean Witter if he has any chance at all of making it through the internship and getting that paying job with them. With some changes in their lives resulting in fewer expenses, Chris figures he needs to sell his remaining six scanners just to scrape by for those six months. Based largely on his chutzpah, Chris, against the odds, gets one of the twenty positions. It isn't until he is well immersed into the process that he learns that the internships are non-paying. Feeling like the scanner is not the answer to their financial problems, Chris, with or without Linda's blessing, decides to take a chance by switching careers when he sees that brokerage and securities firm Dean Witter has a six month internship program, which only admits twenty applicants, leading to only one intern being hired at the end of the process. Chris can't afford to pay his parking ticket, meaning that he has to take the bus everywhere now as the clamp remains on the tire of his car.

STAYED AFLOAT SELLING NOW HE FACES MANUAL

But lately, that has been three per month more than he has sold, resulting in an increasing embittered Linda continually needing to work double shifts doing manual work at a laundry, which still isn't enough to cover those basic costs, they being currently behind three months rent. He needs to sell three scanners per month just to meet the basic necessities to support his family, his wife, Linda, and their five year old son, Christopher, on who he dotes since he didn't know his own father when he was a child. Despite being a better product than x-rays machines, they are also far more expensive, meaning that they are an unnecessary luxury for most physicians.

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He has invested all his money on portable bone density scanners, which he personally sells to physicians. Yet he is struggling financially in his life. In what limited academic opportunities he has had in his life, Chris Gardner has demonstrated that he is a smart man.

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