I can say that my worst fear is being a failure Being a grown man wishing I finished high school or college, stressed out trying to figure how I’m about to pay my rent for next month and not being able to provide and help my family when they really need it. Both sister and my brother and even my father have recently had children. This has made life a little more stressful and hard. My brother and sisters has dropped out of college and started work at minimum wage jobs to provide for their children. I sometimes wish I could show them that their lives don’t have to stop
Well as mentioned before I was a single mother so traveling as a flight attendant often my son did not see me much. This was something I could not continue doing for the rest of my life so, I decided to make a career change and this is where I applied at Argosy. My son has always been my automatic push to better myself. I knew that at the beginning of changing careers it was going to be a hard one due to financial hardships. I would work fewer hours at a new job which means less money.
It’s not like my family is filled with a whole bunch of illiterate people. Trust me my family is filled with very smart people. The sad part is they weren’t given the chances to complete high school. For example my mother had an untimely pregnancy which limited her ability to attend school regularly which eventually led to her having to drop out. These stories continue throughout my family and the list goes on.
The lack of education leads to further development of barriers such as a financial barrier and poor lifestyle that makes them unable to provide for themselves and their child. Most jobs that do not require a high school diploma only offer a minimum wage and do not offer adequate benefits to meet all medical needs. “key indicators of health, infant mortality rates and low-birth weight rates, were elevated when infants were born to mothers who were less educated” (Flores et al,1998). Considering that statement I believe that the biggest barrier affecting this vulnerable population’s health is education. Vulnerable mothers that do not finish getting their education become discouraged and loose the motivation and drive to tackle the oncoming challenges that life brings, creating for them another barrier on the micro level; it being a financial barrier.
Commonly, teenagers that have children at an early age usually either drop out of high school or get their G.E.D. Harley is unique compared to most teenage moms; she has planned opportunities for herself to greaten her child’s
She decided to go to her manage and ask when she would be getting paid, but the only thing her manager could tell her was “next week”. She grew tired of contently hearing “next week”, after this she decided that she wasn’t going to work any longer until she was given her pay from the pervious month. But the more time wasted, without pay, the sicker her daughter became. That was something she couldn’t bare. She had no one to help her.
I wasn’t happy with my life, but that is the life I chose. I was making minimum wage and my checks were really small. My husband and I were burly making the payments on time. I worked for a couple years when I decided to change my life and give my baby a better
A Dose of Reality It had been a while since I took the time to think of where I came from; where it all began for my family and me. I often tend to forget all the struggles we’ve been through and think that the lifestyle we have now is the lifestyle we’re entitled to. I tend to forget that those struggles made us what we are today as a unit. Of course there are random days when I think back to the old times. The times my mother cried after the electrical company cut off our power because we couldn’t afford it.
They were not able to play and be worry free like the children of today are. It is hard to think about a little child working in mills and factories till late in the day, with nothing to show for themselves. Instead of learning at school, they had to work hard to survive. Their schooling stayed at a minimum until laws were passed requiring kids to go to the school house to learn during the week. Even with these laws in place, the public was still suffering.
As a child, I grew up in the migrant environment. It wasn't easy moving back and fourth to different states, dealing with school and having to work in the exhausting fields is not an easy task to do. Growing up I was aware of my parents struggles to sustain our home and needs. I then realized that education is imperative to economic well-being, despite having little of monetary value my parents never gave up on my sister and I. The fact that my parents grew up in a time that working was the only option being that they were not educated.