I was thinking to myself, why is change so hard for people? Seriously. I consider myself a political junkie. I'm always looking at the news, listening it to it on my car radio, and on the internet (where I spend most of my time). It's like Obama is being attacked because he has ideas.
Well me personally, I have watched things go from bad to worse with my personal economic status. I went from living comfortable with savings and money put aside for a rainy day. To now just making it and now my umberella has blew away in the wind and I'm getting wet.
I remember when people had the desire to work, there was a job for them. Now it is not that way so much. I mean how bad is it when you serve for this country and when you get back there are limited to almost zero resources for Vets to utilize for physical and/or mental health? I feel that if you serve in active duty once you are home you shouldn't have to work again (but that is a whole different story).
Now that I have a son I see things alot different. I want him to get the best education possible, and it is a shame that I can't send him to a public school. I have to find a way to pay tuition. I mean I expected to have to pay for college, but from grammar school? I barely have enough to make ends meet now.
I am a product of Chicago's public schools and I use to believe that it was just a myth that Chicago's city public school students were behind. All while I was in High school I was on the honor roll, inducted to the French honor soceity. But when I attended College I soon realized that I was far behind. I didn't even know as much as the white students knew about African American History as a black woman.
I'm not trying to make it a racial thing, just trying to make my point that there are plenty of changes that need to be made. And I ready and willing to accept change.
I understand that experience is a good quality to have, but if that was the case I wouldn't got half of the work related successes that I have gain if experience was the only criteria. I had a passion to succeed and be effective. Someone saw it in me and within two tears I had become a District Manager responsible for the operations of 6 locations.
So I much rather have someone who sees that change is needed, has some fresh ideas, and use his passion and drive to lead the country to change.
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I know what you mean about seeing you savings account drain, and then your checking drain, and then the drain sucking out the air that you breathe. It's definitely a hard transition to go from having a savings account to doing everything you can just to have enough money to go to the grocery store. But we wouldn't be college students if that wasn't the case! Change costs money, if we wanted to keep our savings accounts and not worry about the things we worry about now, we could just stay at our parents house forever and mooch off of them. The point is that if you ever want to make change for yourself, most likely it is going to cost money,, many times the money that you don't have. But then again, if you want to get to the top you have to start at the bottom.
I also went to Chicago public schools and was a member of the National Honor Society, High Honor Roll, 4.0 GPA, but as far as thinking you were very much further behind than other students in college, I believe that this can be true to an extent. Many Chicago schools simply don't have the funding to provide the same materials that other schools have, but the greatest part is that college and public libraries provide us with opportunities for equality. We can read whatever books we want, talk to guidance counselors, tutors, TAs, professors, use the internet to learn whatever information we want. We can study abroad, do whatever we want to as a form of social equalizer. It costs money, but it escalates us into society and also broadens our perspective of other cultures besides that of Chicago schools that we were raised from. That was only a part of our life, not the whole thing.
By all means what you wrote is true.
I always strive for doing better and I believe that I have been successful. I have been promoted on my last job from cashier to District Manager in two years.
My purpose to bringing up my college experience is to show that change needs to be made, not to complain that I was gave a bad deal.
I am a firm believer of writing your own present and future no matter of how you started off.
Thanks for the post.
I just played the hand I was dealt..... I'm just playin to win ;-) (rapper 2Pac)