Get a job

After reading "All My Hopes and Dreams," I finally felt that I was not alone. There are other families just like mine. I am the first generation of my family to be born in the United States. Even though my family has been here for over 40 years, none of my elders even bothered to gain higher education. They basically only came to this country to work, not knowing that to be successful in the U.S. economy one has to pursue higher education. Just like in the article, my family never encouraged me to think about college, they did encourage me to get a a job though. Luckily while I was in high school, I had a lot of friends that encouraged me to get a higher education because they were going to known universities and they did not want me to be left behind. Instead of having an athletic scholarship such as in the article, I had friends to encourage to pursue a higher education. So when I graduated high school I enrolled in a Junior College a got a part time job to make my parents happy. This article slapped me on the face with reality, and I had an epiphany that most minorities are not encouraged to pursue a higher education. Therefore from now on, I am going to encourage all my family members to think about their futures and make college seem like a possible outcome.



Jose T.
KIN 338I Sec 06 10771