The importance of a good education hit me during summer jobs. Before my
freshman year in college and the summer between my freshman and
sophomore years, I worked factory jobs to earn money for college. One
job was at a factory that made storm doors and the other at a factory
that produced auto body filler putty. As nice as the employees were and
as hard and diligently as they worked, I saw what life would be like for
me without an education. Many people enjoy factory work, excel at it and
make a good home and support a family from it. But I knew I would not
like working in a factory for the rest of my life, and that experience
and exposure impressed upon me the importance of applying myself
academically -- to get use my grades and high school diploma to earn a
college degree and work at a job I enjoyed...
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