Jumping Hurdles

Jumping Hurdles
An
extraordinary obstacle course is called life, we all are here for one reason and that’s to live. Overcoming a challenge is tough but if you stick to what you believe in it will take you to different places. Carrying around plates with food has turned into a backpack of books. My biggest challenge so far in life is finally to step foot on college campus, for some its easy but for others like me its more complex. Long hard work days and short night with my friends was my schedule before I started school. It’s hard for me to just come to school and think everything’s going to work out great because I’ve personally seen some bad incidences where school caused the problem. I’m glad I worked sixty to seventy hour work weeks before school because now I know in life if I do not get educated that is what I will be doing the rest of my life.
I love going to work because it is punishment that pays; I don’t want to be here, I have to because I can’t go anywhere else without a paper that says I’m smart and that’s called a degree. Waking up every day tired from yesterday and can’t rest or anything because I have a ten hour work shift sucks and it continued every day. I got so caught up with work that I forgot that the world is much bigger than the restaurant I work in or my paycheck I get. That’s why I decided to step into school I finally locked in with a major that would fit me because I would never want to wake up doing some job that I don’t enjoy. My first job I ever got was a restaurant that specialized in Indian food and snacks, it was a good one but it had me working all day and I never got time to do other things.
Since this is my first job I was scared of my boss at first and didn’t tell him much, but after time passed we got to know each other and I finally got comfortable with him and told him truthfully that hey I need to get back into school because I don’t see a future as a cashier for life. He helped me create a schedule that would put enough money in pocket and enough free time to take a couple classes so I can get the educational process going for me. Customer service is not one of the greatest things to do because you meet the strangest people in life with different tongues. Being nice to a customer is easy but when things start to get a little hot I usually burst with pressure on someone but in the workplace I somehow just let things slide like rude comments by some unsatisfied customers because it’s not worth arguing, it gets you nowhere. The hardest part to was always losing fights with customers because the boos steps in and take care of him, but since that usually happens I just learn to let it go.
I've
learned that after High school no one babies you around telling you what to do, so every opportunity you have you take it. Classes are much easier to be in, then to be at work and hearing all the customers in your head chew you out till your drained of your energy. I think college opens doors to many various lifestyle depends how you go through with it. I think the only obstacle in college that is very hard for me to conquer right now is to take more advanced classes. College is not for everyone because the ones who say it’s not for them don’t take chances.
Jumping
over a hurdle isn't the only part of overcoming an obstacle to continue and keep running and jumping over the next ones are a real challenge in life. I think college will make a better man out of me because education is the key to a bright future. If you want to set a good example for your kids you have to be their role model, you can’t teach them something you are not familiar with and college prepares you to become a better person. Personally walking on the campus is the best thing I have done I have overcame this obstacle but there’s always another one ahead of me that awaits, and that’s too transfer out to a Cal
State University and major in business management I feel that working long hard days doesn’t pay off because the money you work for gets spent, and the knowledge you learn stays with you forever and you can pass it down to others you know. Jumping hurdles may be hard, but no one said life is easy so you have to deal with the obstacle course.