Is This Education Worth My Time

Another road block I may face is I am always busy! If I am not at school I’m at work if I am not at work I’m sleeping or studding, there is never a dual moment in my life. Thankfully my boss works with me and cut my hours back so I could focus more on school, which helps a lot. I am also blessed that my parents and Aunt and Uncle support me, and push me to my fullest potential.

Going to school along with having a job can be arduous to balance. Working for five hours, three or four days a week can cause some hindrances. For instance, when I work until about nine on a Wednesday night and have to go home and study for two tests, it causes me to have to stay up late which consequently results in losing sleep. Even though this is a disadvantage when it comes to having a job, I've learned to adjust so that I'm able to accommodate it all. This also has permitted me to develop superior time management and multitasking skills.

Where a regular student can afford to block off time days or weeks in advance for study or extracurricular activity I have found that flexibility is my strongest tool. There have been nights I have found myself studying for an impending test while pacing my kitchen with a crying baby in one arm and a text book in the other. Any reading assignment I can manage to listen to through audiobook is absolutely a God send, as I can complete it in the car or while packing lunches. I work two jobs on top of everything else. This semester has been my favorite in terms of schedule synchronicity. Everything is flowing in an orderly manner, I go straight from school to work taking time to study during my breaks.

Over the past twenty-five years, college costs have accumulatively risen four-hundred percent. The percent of parents who contribute to their child’s student debt has dropped from thirty-seven percent to twenty-seven percent, compared to three years ago. Due to the lack of aid, most students have to try to balance a job and school at the same time resulting in eighty-five percent of college students working at least twenty hours a week. It has also been noted that students who work twenty hours or more a week while attending classes at the same time are less likely to graduate due to the high stress environment. Sixty-two percent of college students who drop out were responsible for their own college education. Even when students drop out, thirty percent are still faced with college debt, creating a loophole impossible to recover

Due to the continuing increase of living it’s nearly impossible to be able to live alone. Since the demand of a higher education for better paying jobs is at an all time high trying to juggle a full-time job and returning to college is more than difficult at times. Frank, a full-time employee decided that he’d better himself by returning to college. Never considering that times have changed, he still continued to work and go to school. He stretched himself to the max; he worked late hours and then stayed up doing homework until the early morning only to have to get up and return to class to repeat the long days over. Several weeks passed, he realized that he was never going to be able to get ahead to matter how hard to tried. He was very aware that if he stopped taking classes his chances of being something in the world were even slimmer than if he continued and somehow managed to do both. Frank decided that no matter how tough these next few months were going to be he wasn’t going to let it stop him from meeting his goals.

Working forty hours a week, school (may I add that I have perfect attendance since entering high school), filling out college applications and

Of course, I learned to work extra hard by accustoming to the challenges of constantly reading and studying. In my eyes, I saw this as an opportunity to prepare for college, and to save

All through Middle School and High School I had to juggle my academics with my

In my early colleges years, I would work two part-time jobs and go to school fulltime because financial aid would not pay for half-time. Since, I could not afford to pay for the courses and my bills, I was stuck with two full-times; work and school. Most of the times, I spend a whole day without eating. It was hard to eat healthy and get enough sleep with such busy schedule.

I have a profound attachment to my education. At times, I prioritize it above socializing with friends on the weekends. I am not afraid to sacrifice my time and sleep to complete my homework and studying. I have a couple of motivating factors behind this drive to complete my education. For one, I am fascinated by the material being covered. I love going to class and learning about chemistry and math. The “Aha” moment feels so satisfying when I pick up a concept in class. Also, I am motivated to graduate and to be able to find a promising career in engineering. Ultimately, I hope that my hard work pays off and I can be in a career I am fascinated in. In all, this amounts to is my drive of finishing college not demising.

It is difficult to balance extracurricular activities, family and friends, and a part-time job while staying on top of schoolwork. Unfortunately, out of these five things, it is schoolwork that suffers the most. I was one of these students. I was a cheerleader all four years of high school and I was involved in numerous clubs and organizations. I also worked 3-4 shifts a week as a waitress from my sophomore to senior year. I started out taking all honors/AP classes my freshman year but the more clubs and activities I became involved in, the less advanced classes I was taking. I did not take advantage of the free education I was given and I didn't realize how big of a deal it was that I was offered college classes in high school. I was more than capable of taking the higher level classes, but I was just too lazy. I regret the decisions I made and I always encourage my family and friends that are still in grade school to take all of the classes they can because it will pay off. I did not have anyone encouraging me to go the extra mile so I simply just didn't. I have always been surrounded by people that believe that men are superior to women,

Attending school is practically a full time job itself, merely when you already have a nine to five job, a person has to go to school during the day because you work at night. This itself will then take away time from family. For instance, being a Security Supervisor at a major cellular phone distribution plant, leaves me no time to follow up on another degree. I made the choice to earn a bachelors degree, even though I knew it would take a significant amount of time from my personal life. What cause me the most difficultly was attending day classes, meaning my wife would have to be at home all day and alone throughout the night without me. The shift I work requires me to be there sharply at 4:00pm, and I battle with speeding cars along the expressway and live off junk food. Meanwhile, my wife with a hectic schedule and coming home at 10pm she makes sure I have a something to eat. Investigations at work was another story since I manage other security officers in understanding their work daily and assisting company employees in the edifice. While worrying about completing my essays and tests for grad school.

The first cause of students dropping out of college is due to the fact that they are unable to balance their work and school together. A questionnaire was completed by 42 first- and second-year students from a single degree program at the end of Semester 2. Findings - Within this group, 83 per cent of students worked at some point during term-time of their degree program. In total 58 per cent of those students who worked did so to either cover or contribute to basic costs of living. While the majority of students felt they could balance work and study, half of all students questioned felt that working could have a negative impact on their degree classification (Working to live). Even full-time

Studying for me is the time when every single second is dedicated to getting more knowledge and experience. However it has never been easy for me to find enough of this time. I come form a very poor family . My father was an alcoholic who never took care of his family, so everything have to be done by to my mother and her oldest child; who happened to be me. Since the moment I can remember I always had to work and take care of my siblings. When I was 15 years old my mother had to go out of town for work to support the family. It was my task to manage the family, make sure we had food, and take care of my sister and brother. I had to wake up every morning at 5.30 to crush giant blocks of ice and deliver the crushed ice to local businesses. I

I work thrity-five hours a week at a warehouse in Ontario California. When I first registered for college classes, I figured college would be fairly easy to fit into my schedule. After all, I thought, college students are not in class all day, like high school students are. So, I assumed the twelve hours a week I’d spend in class wouldn’t be too much of a load. But I was in for a big surprise. My first semester at college showed me that students who work while going to college face problems at school, at work, and at home.