Essay On After High School

Public schools help students become prepared for society until the day they graduate from high school. Over the years, students do not continue since they do not feel that they are prepared for college and decided to earn a low-paying job instead. Therefore, more students are either dropping out of high school or not attempting to enroll in college to improve their education.

After high school I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do for a career. After years of wandering I decided to join the military. I completed basic training and technical school in Texas. I was miles away from the comfort of family and friend back home in Maryland. This was the first time that I was truly on my own. After training was complete I was moved to Spokane, Washington. where I completed my term in Spokane and it was time to reenlist or get out the military. I was ready to have my life back so I decided against enlisting for another term. When it was time for me to discharge the first question everyone asked me was “where I going?”. In my mind I had two choices. I was either going stay in tiny Spokane or go back home to Maryland. I spent a few weeks thinking about my options and at that time I was certain home was the best choice. Moving back home made sense for several reasons:

For some students, the question of what to do after high school may be a burden to even contemplate as it approaches quicker and quicker. The pressure to continue another four (or more) years of education after high school can be overwhelming considering twelve years of schooling has already been completed; why go right back to school again? When’s break time? Some people are simply just not ready for college and they know it, or at least until after they have had a long break or have had some time to recollect themselves. Technically speaking college isn’t for everyone, nor is it necessarily needed for a career. Luckily today, there are many other options that potential career seeking beings can get a head start on such as community colleges and trade/vocational schools. These alternatives to a four year college are considered to be a good start on a job (and maybe even a career). The best benefits of these alternatives involve the cost of attending, the student environment, and the degrees offered.

Contemplating back on my high school journey, I began to recognize and appreciate the life changes I experienced and the imperative lessons I learned throughout those four years. If I had to choose several words to describe my high school experience, I would begin with eventful, challenging, and memorable. High school afforded me many experiences that continuously led to stressful and challenging encounters. Being involved with the Ambassador Program and the National Honor Society was one of the greatest decisions I made in high school. Both clubs provided me with numerous life-changing opportunities that will continue to have an impact on me for a lifespan.

The life after highschool is like being released into a minefield, if you take the right steps you get closer and closer to where you want to be, but if you take the wrong ones, you blow a chunk into your body that could either heal or permanently damage you. Of these steps in life many feel like college is the only first step but there are options because not everyone is ready financially or mentally to go straight into college. Lawrence B. Schlack in his article “Not Going to College is a Viable Option”, states many alternatives including taking a gap year which is “taking time off for travel, work, or public service before making life decisions” there is also “military service, cultural immersion while working in an overseas country, doing

A survey from Citigroup finds that almost eighty percent of high school students take part in a part time job. Students do not have careers in their jobs through high school, but jobs that can keep money in their pockets. The decision is left up to the students if he/she wants to work and attend school simultaneously; the decision should not be left up to the parents/guardians. Although the decision should not be left up to the parents/guardians, getting a job should be encouraged to high school students. Having a job introduces students to the real world and transforms students into responsible young adults. Nothing can teach young adults responsibility and management like the experience of having a job throughout high school. Since I am

For some people, it has changed them dramatically, but for others, it has simply changed nothing. Since entering 6th grade, I have become more responsible, gained new friends, and school has changed physically and positively.

For years up until highschool, I had successfully tried out for and made a variety of sports teams. That is, until sophomore year. It was my first year trying out for the Winnacunnet baseball team, which everyone had known to be terrible for years. 3 months full of hard work later with that idea still in my mind, I was filled with a weird mixture of confusion, anger, and sadness when I was told that I had been cut from the team before the start of the season. At the time I thought that day ended my entire baseball career, I’d never play another meaningful inning of the game I loved ever again. I decided against that idea though, I wasn’t gonna let one bad event stop me from following my dreams. So starting that summer, I trained all year round

I was standing with hundreds of my peers in an extremely claustrophobic and humid hallway, awaiting to receive my high school diploma. My hands trembled as I slowly walked alongside the podium where my principal quietly congratulated me and handed me my diploma. As I proceeded to my assigned seat, I gawked at the high quality piece of paper that seemed insignificant at the time, but would knowingly open many doors for me in the future. I was nervous. Nervous about walking down a path without a final destination, all alone.

I grew up with in a single parent household, the youngest of three children and English is my second language. Growing up, I did poorly in my academic life during high school, I did not know where I was heading. My grades were below average and I did little to participate in any sports or clubs. I was satisfied to obtain a C in class. I never bothered to work for something better. I did not have any goals or aspirations and sometimes I would not even bother to show up to class. Most of my family worked in a warehouse and this is where I thought I would end up after I graduated. Which I did, I ended up working at warehouse right after High School and I hated it.

In February during the finales months of my senior year in high school, I began to start thinking about my life after high school. I had no idea of what I wanted to be in life. I knew I had liked arguing with people and standing up for what I believe. Then one day, I was watching one of my favorite movies “Legally Blonde”. A brief summary of the movie is that it is about a “dumb blonde’ girl who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to become a lawyer by attending Harvard Law School. In the beginning, she was lost but somehow turns everything around and proves to the world that blondes are smart, and that you can do anything if you have faith in yourself. After watching this movie, a light bulb had lit up in my head, and I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to be a lawyer. I was unaware on the steps it took to be a Lawyer, so I asked my teacher about what I should major in to become one. She told me to major in political science. I had never heard this word before so I researches it to find more about it.

It was my junior year in high school, when my life began to change. While I sat in my English class, with my head laid on top of the hard wooden cold desk, I thought to myself, what am I going to do. How was I supposed to provide for this child, but my mind kept think back to how was I going to let my mother know, that her youngest high school daughter was about to become a teen parent. I was scared. I was scared for my future. As the days became months, my belly continued to grow more and more. Rumors began to start escalate, is she really pregnant, wow I did not even know she had a boyfriend. I was the unpopular girl who no one knew. The girl who would sit in the back of the class all alone. I was the girl who wanted to be popular, or even the girl who everyone wanted to be friends with, but I was not. I was the knocked up high school student as people would say. I had many people reject me and few accept me for who I was. Due to me becoming a teen parent I received various levels of support from my family, teachers, and the little friends I did have.

For as long as I can remember the only things I have wanted to do with my life is build and create. As a kid I was obsessed with building Legos but not with directions. Figuring out how to put it together without directions was a challenge but all that more satisfying. I also enjoyed tinkering with anything I could get my hands on, from toys to mechanisms. Throughout my life I have experienced many different events that have altered my thinking and aspirations for the future. Teaching myself and learning from others was the only way to get here today.

When I was in sixth grade I found myself already set on what I would do with my life after high school. I would serve the greatest country in the world as a U.S. Marine. This idea to be a soldier was always there, I don't know why but it was. The idea of serving my country and giving back to all the people who gave to me has always been appealing. In return of what they did for me, I would give my life. Little did I know how much work it would be to get there. Six years later and here I am getting ready to live out my dream. At the end of my Junior year I got the opportunity to join the Delayed Entry Program, which is basically early enlistment. Now that my senior year is here the date of me shipping out is less than a year away. I must take every chance I can get to prepare for boot camp and the life challenges ahead. That’s where P.T. comes in. P.T. is set up to get you prepared both mentally and physically for boot camp. I understood the point but I never realized how mentally prepared you need to be. After my first day of school, I underwent intense P.T. Before an hour drive to Denver we stopped by the recruiters’ office in Greeley. There we had to sign papers waving the Marines responsibility for us. If we were to get hurt or die, then oh well you signed the paper. I questioned my decision to go at this point, wondering how demanding the P.T. would be. That night, me and other recruits stayed the night in the Marine headquarters. There isn’t much to tell about that

When the word progress comes to mind what do we think of; The way our society improves or diminishes? Or do we just think about how we improve ourselves personally? The steps a person takes through high school and after graduation is one of the most important steps one person can take in their life. but each individual person has different routes they wish to attend, most people will proceed in the direction towards progress and the two most common ways of progress that a person’s route leads them down is either working after high school or going to further their education in college. For the past few years the conversation has stuck around that weather or not college is the basic success plan for our future. I personally believe that attending college isn’t secured as a building block and won’t provide progress if we just go to college because we have nothing else to do. If we as a society start work after high school and only those who are dedicated go to college I believe that we will be better off as for social progress. through close research I have been able to narrow down three topics, in the following essay, it will portray; how college can often set someone off track because they aren’t sure what they want to do at the young age people begin, people are often left buried in debt, and finally a job isn’t guaranteed after graduation. how college isn’t necessary to succeed in the future. So the question that still remains is does going to college as a building block