Why I Want To Return To College Essay

So, you’re nearly 50 years old and you 're already retired why would you return to school? Formalized education is one of the keys to success at every stage of your life. To be a lifelong student is to remain engaged with the world as it is at that moment. My college career began back in 1985 as a freshman with only one goal in mind: get the degree to make a lot of money! Well, needless to say that alone would not be enough direction and discipline to get me to the finish line. I manage to complete the first two years and after some soul-searching decided to take the next year off and get a job until I figured out what I wanted to do. For the next year, I sold cars at a Pontiac dealership and partied a lot. Soon, I once again began to consider future career prospects, and it also helps that I 'd gotten …show more content…
The job was not bad, but yet it still was not challenging. About but eight months after taking the job at General Electric, we discovered that we would have a son. This was the change I needed to make me focus on what was important in life. I decided that I would join the Army and become a soldier! Once I completed my initial entry training and technical school, I decided that I love the Army, and it would be my career. It was easy to convince my wife of this move because she was a military brat. I went to the education center at my first duty station and had an assessment done of the work I had done at University and the credits awarded to me for training that I received on entry into the Army. The promotion system was explained to me, and I had already reaped the value of education by being promoted because of the college credits I had already. I decided it was time to pick up work on my degree. I managed to complete two associates degree from the community college to the Air Force in my first three years of military