Pursuing My Educational Goals

Everyone’s motive to finish school and get a decent job, whether they know it or not, is to be “successful” and financially stable, but after being told that so many times I notice some of us lose sight of our real dreams. Getting an education becomes the task that blurs the fine lines of what you really want, and so some of us end up in jobs we hate because we only looked at the amount of money that job pulled in. Rather than doing what we love and loving what we do, we sacrifice our time, ironically our money, and happiness in order to make more money to achieve what’s left of our goals for those who still hold them high. Aside from the repetitive, monotonous, and progressive difficulty of the curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic, school has taught me more than what was intended. What my past and current academics have shown me is I have a niche to fill that I can excel at with proper practice and can genuinely enjoy. It has taught me to find that …show more content…
I would’ve never learned major life lessons if it weren’t for sports, clubs, and school events. As a child, I was ahead of my time in terms of my ability to learn. I understood my mother had multiple jobs and wasn’t able to get her GED until a bit of years after I was born. I wasn’t isolated or left with a babysitter all the time of course; I spent the majority of my time in the Boys & Girls Club at my elementary and in junior high, when she enrolled in a private nursing school and became an LVN after a few more years of hard work and studying, I had football and track practice to take up most of my time. Albeit my mother taught me the most vital things needed to get through life, she couldn’t give me everything I needed to know in the palm of my hand. Through these programs and the people and friends I met, I learned things like true grit, maturity, compassion and empathy, and more; something the education system couldn’t teach