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My Last 10 Years Of My Life Essay

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For 10 years of my life I have been living in a town, where the unemployment rate was one of the highest in the country. I finished there most of the years of my education and I always thought that I was growing up among sad people, who were truly hating their jobs and their lives, what made me feel that my family didn’t belong there. My parents had their dreamed jobs, lots of interests and hobbies. Thanks to that we traveled a lot, what helped me to learn new cultures and understand the world better. After being raised in that way, I wanted to live a life where I will be able to enjoy my work and at the same time being helpful for another human. Everything changed when a company, where my parents worked, merged with other corporation. Within …show more content…

My family was a winner of a green card lottery. It was very hard for me, but I knew that this was the only chance for my father to come back home and for us to become a family again. Few days after graduation from high school we came to new city. After a while turned out that we weren’t prepared for a life in another country and the most of the obligations fell on me. At the age of 21 I became the head of the family since my parents and little sister didn’t know even basic English. Suddenly within a month I was taking care of bills, apartment, insurance and transportation. It was the hardest time in my life but after our life stabilised, I decided to go back to my country and start college. Unfortunately those few months were my biggest mistake, since the major that I chose wasn’t my cup of tea and I was constantly worrying about my parents. After finishing one semester I came back to the country and transferred to another college. A lot of people tried to convince me that choosing a college is a bad option if I would like to be successful in future life. I did not really understand their point of view, because I imagined it as the best way to start my education in the United States without any knowledge about foreign program, requirements and way of teaching. I had also commitment when

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