Personal Narrative: A Time That Changed My Life

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The time I accomplished something would have to be ever since I got a job myself, when I told my mom about the job she didn’t like the idea she wanted me to focus on school and helping her out at the house and taking care of my sisters. She wanted me to not worry and just worry about school but I see a lot of people my age working and getting money they earned by working and I got interested myself and for me it didn’t matter where I worked as long as I did. So me and her talked and I told her if I work and keep my grades okay to the point where I’m not failing to keep the job and when I get to failing bad quit it and just focus on it all on school and she agreed. I was so happy and excited cause I finally can be busy and work and make money off of that. When I told the boss about me working he …show more content…

It feels great knowing that I’m not being selfish of myself but helping other like my mom and sister when they need me. Knowing they can count on me is great cause I know that I feel like I can help whoever needs me. When I continued working at my restaurant I knew my mom was proud and happy for me working at an early age at 15 it feels great knowing that your mom is proud of you for working and helping her pay for stuff, saving money in case an emergency happens, and helping her and my sisters around. I also feel like I accomplished at being an older sister they also said that they wanted to start working and they can once they turn 16 I love the feeling knowing that you are both of your two little sisters role models. Once I start accomplishing a lot of things that make me happy I would continue doing it. For example, if I read tons of book over the weekend I get so happy I go back into

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