Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Mahaifin Holonyak ya yi aiki a ma'adinan kwal. Holonyak shi ne na farko a cikin danginsa da ya sami kowane irin ilimi na yau da kullun. Ya taba yin aiki na tsawon sa'o'i 30 a jere a kamfanin jirgin kasa na Illinois kafin ya fahimci cewa rayuwa ta aiki tuƙuru ba abin da yake so ba ne kuma zai fi son zuwa makaranta a maimakon haka. A cewar Knight Ridder, "Lasers masu tsada da abin dogaro masu mahimmanci ga 'yan wasan DVD, masu karanta lambar mashaya da sauran na'urori suna da alhakin wanzuwarsu ta wata hanya kaɗan zuwa ga aikin da ake buƙata a kan ma'aikatan jirgin ƙasa na Downstate shekaru da yawa da suka gabata. "Holonyak ya sami digiri na farko (1950), digiri na biyu (1951), da kuma digiri na biyu (1954) a fannin injiniyan lantarki daga Jami'ar Illinois a Urbana-Champaign. Holonyak shine John Bardeen na farko Ph.D. dalibi a can; Bardeen, masanin kimiyyar lissafi, shi ne wanda ya kirkiro transistor wanda a karshe ya lashe lambar yabo ta Nobel don wannan aikin da kuma ka'idar superconductivity. A cikin 1954 ya tafi Bell Telephone Laboratories, inda ya yi aiki a kan na'urorin lantarki na silicon. Daga 1955 zuwa 1957 Holonyak ya yi aiki tare da Rundunar Sojojin Amurka. Daga 1957 zuwa 1963 ya kasance masanin kimiyya a Cibiyar Nazarin Harkokin Kasuwanci ta Kamfanin General Electric a Syracuse, New York. A shekara ta 1963, ya zama farfesa a Jami'ar Illinois, daga inda ya yi ritaya bayan shekaru hamsin a shekara ta 2013.  Tambaya: Me ya sa ya yanke shawarar daina aiki a layin dogo?
Rayuwa ta aiki mai wuya ba abin da yake so ba ne