Working

When I was younger I used to watch my parents leave for work every morning while I was stuck at home waiting for the bus to arrive to take me to the prison that was school. But my views have changed over the years. School gradually became less of a prison and more of a place that could make me like mommy and daddy. And now school isn't a place that can make me like mom and dad, it's a place that can make me better than mom and dad. You know how it is, when you're younger your world revolves around your parents and that seems to be the best thing that you can achieve in your life. But as you get older and your parents begin to involve you in the politics of family life, you see maybe the perfect world i thought I lived in isn't so perfect anymore.

Eventually pressure from my parents led me to get a job and to stop "mooching" as they put it. I still had a little of that "get to be like mom and dad" mentality at first. Work drug on and on and on. The pay was good but doing the same thing over and over just gets downright boring. It really put it into a different perspective for me. Working isn't fun or else it wouldn't be called work. So now school for me is the place that will help me to become better than mom and dad so that I won't have to work my whole life just to get by. I'm determined to have a more successful life than anyone in my family.