Knowing that has helped me realize that if I can continue the same work ethic as my ancestors, I can then be able to financially support myself. Being able to look at how my great-grandmother had been able to get out of poverty by working hard and taking pride in my work, has helped me look at things in a different way. Instead of doing a job with little effort and no pride, I should give it my all because someday I can not be doing jobs without a care in the world. I have to be able to pull my own weight and not rely on others to do a job for me. I need to be able to look at things and be proud of what I am able to accomplish. My great-grandmother’s struggle had inspired me to be the very best I can be, and that has helped me shape my …show more content…
Those challenges helped me get to where I am today, which is college. I am the first of my family to ever go to college, their struggle for a better life has brought me to get a higher education and better myself as well. Growing up always trying to get good grades and be able to get into a good college, had shaped me into a person that does not take this amazing opportunity for granted. It has taught me that being able to get an achievement, like going to college, is a product of being taught in a middle class family. The challenges that I have faced growing up was able to give me a personality that is excited to learn and work to be able to support