Cedar City, Utah is a beautiful place. It is located in southern Utah just a few minutes north of Zion National Park and loads of outdoor recreation locations. There is so much to do and see in the nearby mountains and parks. I was raised in that beautiful city since I was a little baby, about 1 year old. I love the city and much of my family, including my parents, still lives there. It is my true home and it is where I would like to be. I want to live close to family, but there is one colossal obstacle standing between me and living near my family, there aren’t many high-paying jobs in southern Utah ("Utah.gov Services Job Search”).
The jobs that are available are low paying jobs for people with little education. Most of the available jobs are in the service industry working at a restaurant, working for a large business as an associate for example working at Walmart, or working as a laborer for a construction company. These are jobs, but they aren’t careers, they cannot sustain a comfortable lifestyle or fund a retirement. These jobs only pay enough for a single person to pay their bills. One of the main industries in southern Utah is construction. A construction worker can only work for so long. Eventually, their bodies will give out and they won’t be able to work. I have two brothers-in-law that work in construction and they live from paycheck to paycheck. They are getting older and older, but their retirement is getting any bigger. They can’t work this way forever. Eventually they will need to get less physically taxing jobs.
There is a university in Cedar City, Southern Utah University. It is a respected university and has some great programs. There is only one problem with this. There is a place to get an education in o...
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... of study. you must offer incentives to companies that can give citizens high-skill jobs and meet the employment needs of the universities graduates. Please start a grant fund that will stimulate the economy in Cedar City and give graduates an opportunity to start new businesses. They will create more jobs and more graduates will stay in Cedar City. The city would greatly benefit from an increase in high-skill jobs. My future and the future of Cedar City rest in your hands. Works Cited
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lives. I want to be more than just an adult to my pupils, I want them to see that I came from beginnings the likes that they are experiencing now and that things get better. What I intend on giving back to my community isn’t going to come in the form of money nor materialistic things, but in the form of hope. Hope for a brighter future, hope that our youth will do what we never could do, hope that one life has been saved by a kind listening ear. It is often too easy for someone to get money and let