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PATERSON Abdus Miah was a middle school teacher with a degree in education when he lived in Bangladesh, but his credentials didn’t carry over when he came to the United States.
So Miah took whatever work he could get and has spent more than 20 years in fast-food restaurant jobs in the Paterson area.
“I have to live,” he said. “I have to survive.”
Through all those years standing behind greasy counters, Miah maintained his belief in the value of education, and he passed that faith on to his children.
So it was especially fitting that Miah was working his regular Tuesday night shift at a Dunkin’ Donuts cash register last month when his 18-year-old daughter, Iffat Aniqa, called with some big news: She had been accepted to Yale University.