Approaching the age of 50 in a couple of months; and realizing where I am in my life has given me a sense of discontent. I have worked for over 30 years and I have learned most of my skills and developed my experience in the duration although, I have nothing to show for these accomplishments. I have been placed in management positions without the management pay and have succeeded as such. I have been placed in supervisory positions as well and have not received the adequate compensation for this position either. I have learned throughout the years that my self taught accomplishments would have paid off if I had a degree. By "Paid off," I mean I would have been earning the salary for those positions if I did have a degree. Being a single parent …show more content…
I did not receive financial assistance from their father therefore, I was the sole provider for my family. My son 's were my priority and to get them through school with what little means I was able to afford them became the focal point of my life. My education was placed on back burner. I state at the beginning of this essay that at this point in my life I am discontent with where I am. I 'm missing a part of me that I have been wanting to get back now that my son 's are grown and living their own lives. For many years I set aside my education, my goals and my dreams to raise the two fine young men I am proud of. Now that I find myself getting to know "Me," once again, I have the desire to pursue the education left on that back burner. However, the reasoning behind the desire has slightly changed. My desire is no longer to get a degree to increase my salary (although it will be welcomed), nor is it my desire any longer to be acknowledged by a title. My desire now is to achieve satisfaction that I accomplished something in my life and have the degree to show for it. God 's will I can find myself again and pursue this degree I have longed
Happiness is the positive emotion and contentment one feels naturally. Many Psychology studies have been concluded to display what pure happiness is. In the article, “In Pursuit of Unhappiness” by Darrin M. McMahon, he indicates that happiness cannot be forced. In the article, McMahon mentions a philosopher, John Stuart Mill, who acknowledges as well, that happiness can not be forced. He says that if one focuses on something other than their own happiness, happiness will come to them naturally. By what Mill says, people should be encouraged that happiness will come to them and can not force happiness to them. Another example is Jeffrey Kluger’s article, “The Happiness of Pursuit”, he talks about how people focus on never being happy. He says,
Valerie is from Hot Springs, AR and is currently a criminal justice major at National Park College. She has become a successful person and student by many goals she set in her life to accomplish. One of Valerie’s goals is to receive her bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice. Her dream is to land a job where she can impact and help others who might need assistance. Another one of her goals is to maintain a positive attitude and continuing to be a positive role model for her children. This is an everlasting goal she stated and explained that she always wants her kids to see her doing positive so they can do the same. Valerie last goal was to see her kids break the family stigma when it comes to school. She has already had one child graduate and wants to see the others do the same thing. In shaping Valerie’s goals everything was based off her accomplishments. One of her first accomplishments is, she was the first to graduate in her family and attend college. As a kid she always saw graduating to be possible and it has gave her the courage to do much more. Another accomplishment is going back to school to further her education. She attended college in 2003, but soon left due to raising her kids. The last triumph Valerie overcame was teaching herself how to read law and medical books. Growing up early and being a mother she knew she had to be familiar with law and medical things
Halfway through dinner I decided to tell them. “That 's great baby, you know we support you no matter what,” says my Mom. As I bring out the numbers for college tuition, their faces seem to changed from excited to nervous. “I cannot afford that, honey,” says my Dad quietly, being unemployed then. That upset me because I was determined to follow my dreams.
Going back to school at 30 is not the same as going back to school at 20, especially when you’re a single parent with an established career. Returning to school never left my mind throughout the years, I received my associates seven years ago and between then and now a lot had changed. So many questions I asked myself; do I have the time, who can help watch my daughter, can I juggle another load, etc. I answered every one of my questions; unfortunately I gave myself excuses instead. The decision going back to school was overwhelming because it was taking up another full time job; making it a priority and possibly putting in overtime to study and do homework.
Darrin M. Mcmahon the author of the article, “In Pursuit of Unhappiness”, was born in 1963. Darrin broke out of the order of saying “Happy New Year!” and realized they are only expected words that are said without any meaning behind them. Even around the holidays where people are expected to be happy, they think the words “Happy New Year!” are just words that are supposed to be said. If you think about the words “Happy New Year”, year does not only mean one day, so the words are meant to wish a whole year of happiness. But instead, people just reserve their happiness only for the holidays. John Stuart Mill, Carlyle's long-time rival who are both philosophers makes a valid statement about those who have their focus set on something other than happiness are only happy. For example, setting your goal on being happy is risking being happy, because when you don't achieve it you lose even more happiness.
...r. With all of the downfalls that I have experienced in my academic and personal life a college education will make it possible for me to continue my journey into becoming a prestigious working corporate lawyer. I have the drive for success and I am certain that with this scholarship I would be able to pay off my debt and help my mother with her own educational goals. I was content that I was able to encourage her to attend school and I am most fortunate to be given an opportunity to help both her and myself obtain our ultimate goals for the near future. Thank You so much for this opportunity to compose this essay to you about my experiences in the academic arena and why I am deserving of this course. I am most deserving of this opportunity and I wish you and your organization much success for endowing me with this opportunity to be a candidate for your scholarship.
Throughout high school and during my undergraduate studies, education was never a top priority for me. Only during the past two years, in the "real world", have I realized the importance of education. I look back at those years and wish I had done more and realized all the potential I had in my hands and not wasted so much time. During my undergraduate career my social activities consumed my life. My friends were not motivated to do well in school so I followed their lead. My grades were low, and I did not even care. After I graduated in 1997 with a Psychology B.A. and lost touch with my old friends and old ways, I have realized that I should have spent more time doing some soul searching and thinking what it was that I wanted to do with my life. I liked Psychology but what I really wanted to do was work with children more closely. I had spent my junior and senior years involved in internships at Head Start and at a High School in a Program for teenaged mothers. I loved my work there. At Head Start I was a Teacher Aid for the pre-school, teaching the children to read, numbers etc. And at the High School I counseled the teenaged mothers, took care of their kids while they went to school and after the school day I tutored them with their homework. After being out of school for a while, I started to miss that. The feeling that I was teaching something those kids, the feeling that I was making a difference. I was determined to find a job in education, with my background in Psychology, how hard could it be? I found work at a residential school for runaways and abused teenaged females. It was great! I was ready to go, I was going to change the world and change those girls lives. What I didn't realize is that will alone does not make me a teacher and that I needed training, a lot of training. I made a lot of mistakes in that job. I got discouraged and decided to forget about working with children, forget teaching and do something else that paid more. So, I got a job as a Secretary, I did that for about two years. Teaching, working with children was always on my mind.
I never once in my life sat down with myself and really thought about what my parents had to go through and all the sacrifices they had to make in order to ensure that I have a better life and a brighter future. Thinking back now, the frustration I feel eats away at me constantly that I was not more thankful and did not do more to help. This is most definitely a lesson that is learned better late than never. Going forward now I have three main focuses for when I enter college, the first is undoubtedly God and my spiritual life, which forced me to have this revelation. The second focus has to be my family, which I appreciate and value more than ever now. The final focus I have, but certainly not the least, is to be successful in my endeavors throughout college. Seeing how much my parents cared for me by seeing them work as hard as they could just so my siblings and I could live a better life gives me all the motivation in the world to work as hard as I can to not only give back to them, but for my future children to live an even better life than I
There was never an emphasis on education in my household and unfortunately, I perpetuated that erroneous mentality throughout high school. Now that I have the opportunity to transfer to one of the most prestigious universities in the nation, I truly believe that I have opened a number of doors to success for not just myself, but my family and community. Being the first member of my family and one of the few in my neighborhood to attend university will be an extraordinary achievement that I hope will truly inspire those close to me. To display what one can accomplish by altering their mindset to align their values to their goals will be one of my main objectives I hope to attain if permitted acceptance.
Besides already knowing what I’ve wanted to do since I was in the eighth grade, I have always been drawn to education in a way that it has motivated me to keep moving forward. Also on a personal side now that I am pregnant with our first baby, I feel that it is an obligation for me to be the person that our children look up to when it comes to schooling. Accordingly, I have a few reasons to be motivated to continue my education and I would say that the main reason would be for our children. I have always been afraid to fail, especially when it comes to schooling, I may have gotten good grades in high school, but that is because I worked hard so that when I graduated I could pursue college and be successful at it. Becoming an elementary
Throughout the past years, I have been struggling with what I want to do with my life. I’ve decided on several different career paths many times, but I finally found one that I am planning on studying. After I graduate, I wish to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where I can study biology and psychology. After college, I would like to apply to University of Nebraska Medical Center where I can study neurology. As soon as my education is completed, I wish to apply for a job at a medical center where I can do what I want for a living - help people. Along the way, I want to start a family and live debt-free in a larger city, a life my parents weren’t offered. These ambitions that I possess today wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for my past. It has been a challenge getting to who I am today, and it will be a challenge to get where I want to be in the future.
The old common law had a doctrine of absolute contract under which contractual obligations were binding no matter what might occur (Paradine v Jane, 1647). In order to ease the hardship which this rule caused in cases where the contract could not be properly fulfilled through no fault of either party but due to occurrence of unforeseen events, the doctrine of frustration was developed.
Subjective well-being is a broad term that encapsulates how a person appraises his or her life and emotional experiences. It has different aspects which includes life satisfaction, positive and negative affect (Diener et al., 2016). Positive affect refers to pleasant feelings such as joy, ecstasy, pride. While negative affect is defined as emotions that are troublesome or that can cause disturbance like anger and guilt. Life satisfaction is the cognitive domain of subjective well-being as it refers to the judgments made by the person about his life as a whole (Suldo and Huebner, 2005). For example, a person evaluates his subjective well-being by looking at his health satisfaction, job satisfaction, and other facets of his life including feelings regarding his life experiences (Diener et al., 2016). People with high subjective well-being are
I hope to be able to instill these values in my son as he grows up to make his own choices. In choosing to return to school after eleven years I hope to improve my own: intellectual wellness by challenging my mind, my emotional wellness by bettering myself, and interpersonal wellness by improving my relationships with the people closest to me. The support from my family and friends has been invaluable in my returning to school. I feel that by making these positive changes I am setting a good example for my son.
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full efforts is full victory,” (Gandhi, n.p.). Satisfaction prevails as an important part of life. It holds few related definitions. When someone exhibits a continued effort to perform a task or goal, a positive feedback provides a feeling of happiness. The feeling usually lasts temporarily. Satisfaction holds an important role in society. It grants daily tasks and life long goals a purpose. The word provides encouragement to accomplish these tasks. When a job is completed, satisfaction can reveal itself. The origin of the word satisfaction generates from Old Latin. Satisfaction’s origin splits up into two parts, Satisfacere and Faction. Satisfacere refers to doing enough to become content.