Well, it’s been a rough road the one I’ve had to endure with my education. Long story short I come from immigrant parents and had struggled as a result from my parents constantly moving first when I first came here when I was eight legally btw . Then we moved back to my birth country when I was 12 y/o and then back to the US when I was 15. The years we lived here we pretty much moved houses annually and my parents never owned a home and at some point we even lived in a trailer when I was 10. So my upbringing was unstable and not staying long enough in any schools to even make meaningful friendships and/or had an opportunity to even involve myself in extracurricular activities . Then , fast forward when we moved back and I had to go to Highschool i was already a junior and was playing catch-up with my high school credits and I practically begged my teachers to sign the the forms to allow me to take honor classes so that was so stressful on its own and then trying to take the SAT exam and ACT , everything going so fast at the same time . Finally when I graduated Highschool I enrolled in community college planning on transferring after finishing my associates degree . I didn’t qualify for financial aid because I shot myself in the foot by working since I was 16 while in Highschool and then working full time after Highschool and apparently I didn’t qualify because of my parents earnings and mine even though we always struggled with even paying rent and constantly not having enough money to even pay our electric bill at times . I was barely in my first year of college when my dad was put in jail when he went back to our country to try and sell some land we own because apparently we were about to get confiscated by the government and instead my dad was put in prison because of this for two whole years w/o even a trial. I had to work double to even be able to help my mom with the bills and with my younger siblings all while trying to pay for my classes as well and stay in school. My mom then decided to move back when we didn’t make enough to even cover rent and I made the decision to stay here to be able to help her and my younger siblings . Some semesters I wasn’t able to pay for more than two to three classes all while working full time and also hit my real estate license as well so I’ve tried the best I can but I couldn’t stay afloat on my own while paying for school that I had to drop out . Now I’m 27 y/o and working as a store manager for a designer boutique and am handling both a store and their online store . Even though I haven’t finished my education , I’ve been able to get ahead by experience and hard work but I can’t help but feel inferior because of not having my bachelors degree . I’ve done the best I can considering my struggles . Every time I couldn’t pay for my classes and kept getting denied for financial aid and just loans alone couldn’t cover it and I didn’t want to bury myself in debt knowing that I also had to pay for my rent, car, insurance , food , utilities, left me in tears time and time again . So I did the best I could by paying for the classes that I could afford even if that meant cutting down my groceries and whatever I could think of to save money . Now I’m trying to create a plan to go back to school but Im struggling to organize myself and create a plan that’s attainable . It’s not as if I didn’t value my education, I just have had to go through problems that were beyond my control.
Submitted June 22, 2019 at 09:20PM by Taggart1991 http://bit.ly/2IAycQj
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