Community College Full-Time Job Analysis

While I was attending Community college at Cosumnes River College I encountered a dilemma. My father had been injured while on the job and could no longer provide for our family. My family’s income had basically been cut in half, while I was still in college. Now I had been paying for my own expenses in terms of college, transportation, and other expenses with a part-time job and helping out my parents with the occasional bills, but with my father’s income out of the loop I would have to do something drastic in order to help my family with the missing income. I was faced with a conflict of value of either helping my family in its time of need or continue my education. Further education was a very important value that I wanted to achieve, since …show more content…
Unfortunately my convincing fell on deaf ears and I had to go with my other option that I didn’t want to resort to which was going to school full-time and working full-time. I had worked full-time while attending college full-time, but that was only for small moments of time when my employment management needed me to fill in the gaps of people taking a vacation or going on paternity leave. I knew the management of the company I worked for very well, since I had worked with them for quite sometimes before I was ever promoted to my current position. With their help I to obtain temporary full-time shift at my current place of employment, while still attempting to attend school full-time. And since upper management knew my situation they were very accommodating when I needed to take some times off to study or finish a school project. As time went on I just got use to the pace of working and studying full-time, my grades did suffer somewhat, but not so low that I would get into trouble. Having grades that were a little lower was the price that I paid, but I didn’t mind it too