The author's purpose for writing "Some Lessons From the Assembly Line" is to explain the importance of higher education. Careers that don’t require an individual to have any form of higher education, such as the factory mentioned in this article, do not offer stability or the greatest pay rates. The key points in paragraphs four through six lead me to my decision. …show more content…
First off, in paragraph four, “After a particularly exhausting string of 12-hour days at a plastics factory, I was shocked at how small my check seemed” (Braaksma, 2005). Secondly, in paragraph five, “As frustrating as the work can be, the most stressful thing about blue-collar life is knowing your job could disappear overnight” (Braaksma, 2005). Lastly, in paragraph six, “Factory life has shown me what my future might have been like had I never gone to college in the first place” (Braaksma,