Tuesday, September 29, 2009

My Motivation to Attend College

When I read the assignment the first thing that came to mind was that it was going to be easy and I was going to finish it in no time. It's 2a.m. and I don't know how to start. Right after I graduated from high school i was offered a job as a carpenter, which I took. I worked there for almost two years and even though i loved it, I realized that working my ass off there wasnt going to take me anywhere in life. I worked with a lot of different people and I would hear them talk about how they hated their routines, waking up, going to work, go home and go to sleep, they couldn't even enjoy their weekends 'cuz they were still to tired or had to work. They would ask me how old I was, back then I was 18, and they would ask me what was I doing there working and not in school, I always answered that I wanted to have money in my pocket and that school could wait. They would tell me "times flies" and that I should go back to school while I was still young, I didn't pay any attention to them. Sometimes they would come up to me and ask me about a subject in school and if I knew the answer I would explain it to them, they told me I was lucky for having an education and they would tell me how when their kids had questions they couldn't help them 'cuz they didn't understand what they were talking about. Now, three years after I graduated high school I decided to go back to school because I don't want to hate the place I work, I want to work everyday with a big smile and i want to be able to help my kids when they have questions, so that's pretty much my motivation to attend college.