Essay I Admire My Uncle

I’ve never realized how much I admire my uncle for the accomplishments he has made in our family. From being the first to graduate from college to dealing with the lose of his job through the BP oil spill. He is, in my eyes, the true definition of a man, someone who doesn’t quit when life gets tough. The type of man that will always put someone before himself no matter what is going on. Will do anything he can to make sure his wife and twin daughters are taken care of. Michael Richard, the man I get the privilege to call my uncle, came out of high school and did what every typical teenager from the southern part of Louisiana did at that time and went straight to the oil field where he worked for BP oil company being a supervisor there. “Back …show more content…
Little time after he did start to receive this salary it slowly began to be taken away from him through the year 2010. This was the year of the terrible oil spill that caused many oil field related workers to lose their jobs and one happened to be my uncle. The devastation just talking about it was being shown not only through his words but by the look in his eye. It was just only for him either it was for all the good friends he had that lost their jobs and knowing with lack of education they had how hard it would be for them to find another. Unlike my uncle, educated with a college degree he began the day he was laid off immediately phoning in connections to land him another job. In the matter of around a week in a half my uncle was boarding a plan to Texas where he was asked to come in for an interview. He said the few days after the interview were terrible due to the amount of waiting that took place. Knowing if he doesn 't get back into the working field soon he may not be able to support his family like the way he was before. The thought of that happening must have been hard to deal with as I recognized the panic in his voice and his sweaty palms as we spoke about his little time with no job and no way of