College Admissions Essay: A Career In My Life

Pursuing a career can take much more thought and work than can be expected; however the career that I would choose is brick lying. Although I had to give some thought and ponder on which way I want to go. I’ve come to the conclusion that brick laying the career for me , growing up and watching my uncle work as a Brick layer left me feeling like this wasn’t the job for me. The hard hat job came with long hard labor and many dirty clothes. Needless, to say I didn’t want anything to do with it. As I got older and seen the finish work, I became fascinated by the finished product and I knew right away that this was the career for me.

I believe that I am a worthy candidate for this scholarship due to my recognition of the financial impact of college. Growing up in a single parent home has been a financially and emotionally difficult feat for my mother and myself. When I was seven years old, my father passed away from a blood clot. During his life, he served in Vietnam, where he was granted a Purple Heart after shattering his kneecap on a landmine. He was on disability, and my mother was employed as a rehabilitation nurse, the only source of income in our family. After his death, my mother and I both began to go to therapy for our grief over losing my father. Focusing on my mental health helped me accept the meaning of death, and struck my motivation to honor my father and ensure that he would be proud of me. When I grew up, we always relied on getting clothes from thrift stores to save money and cutting any unnecessary expenditures. My mother always worked to have enough money for food and comfort. I received monetary Survivor Benefits after his death until my high school graduation this past May. As mentioned before, my mother has Multiple Sclerosis, which is an unfortunately expensive illness. Shortly after her diagnosis, the rehabilitation unit of her work closed and she was left on unemployment right before my sophomore year of high school. I was not old enough to drive or work, so finances were incredibly strict. On my 16th birthday, I attended an orientation to work as a lifeguard at our local YMCA. The next day, I also got my license to eliminate transportation issues. My employment alleviated financial and emotional stress on my mother, as I was able to contribute to the bills and my personal expenses. Throughout my life, my mother has also been very dependent on alcohol to relieve stress. There were numerous times where I

I understand that my family and I are not living below the poverty line or fighting over bus fare, but this scholarship will still greatly benefit me. When my sister filed the FAFSA, she was not given an extraordinary amount of money. She had to take out loans to pay for her education. My family and I cannot afford to take out any more loans. In 2014, we lost our house due to foreclosure. For two years, every penny we earned went to our savings account to save up for a house. When I was fourteen years old, I had saved up five-thousand dollars for college. I decided to give the money to my parents in order to buy our house. I am a senior in high school, and I have not managed to recoup my money. Meanwhile, my parents are tied down to a thirty-year mortgage. In addition, my grandfather, who lives in Mexico, has been diagnosed with depression. My parents have been sending money over there in order to pay for his care and medicine. Trying to find the right treatment for him has made money a bit tight in my household.

Warren Buffett once said, “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” Throughout the first years of highschool, I searched for that seed, the seed that would secure me a prominent future. A future where I would be enjoying the fruits of my previous labor. I went on a quest towards finding the perfect career that I would enjoy for a lifetime. Though it was tough, I managed to find my calling sixteen years into my life.

For as long as I can remember, I always told myself I would go to college. As a senior, I went through all the steps of admitting into a college, or so I thought. I did everything except turn in my mom’s signature to the FAFSA. Getting ready to submit the signature I realized I was not ready to spend $60,000 in a career I wasn't passionate about. Now here I am again 3 years later doing it again, most people would see this as a set back, but I see it more as an opportunity. This time I am prepared to pursue my goal of attending collage and purse a nursing career . I feel that with the opportunity your scholarship will provide I can reach my goals of taking care of others.

Something that make me smile, gets me excited, makes me do something is softball. I have played ball all since the day I could walk. I started off playing baseball since I was 2 years old. Then at age 8 I went on to play softball for a select softball team in Pearland. Playing softball has always made me smile! I love the intensity, excitement, and the teamwork that is used to play ball. We all look out for each other and try to pick each other up even when we are not all in the spirit. Some activities that involve science, technology, engineering, and math that I find to be fun is robotics and underwater robotics. Robotics has always been a big part in my life because my dad is a robotics teacher for this school and I always loved playing

A long time ago I moved to Denton, Texas for school, attended Texas Woman's for 4 semesters than dropped out.

The scorching oil splashed across my father’s forearm as he worked in a frantic hurry, ignoring the searing heat that ate away his flesh. He absorbed the trauma, swallowed the pain, and continued frying the chicken wings for his upcoming customers. Whenever he came home after toiling twelve hours a day in the cramped, hot kitchen, all I noticed was that permanent scar and the dark bags under his eyes. Noticing how closely I was watching him, my father held my face with his rough hands and reassured me, “I will make sure you will have a better life than mine.”

I am Takeya Glenn. Most people knew me by just Takeya or my nickname Penney. I can honestly say i’m not the most sane person in the world but i try to be, but it is very hard! The time i'm writing this chapter of my book, i am eighteen, five weeks away from graduating, and about to get ready for college.

My journey towards reaching my career aspirations in business began five years ago when my mom made the fateful decision to work as a sales manager for Tupperware. It was through her that I was introduced to the world of business. Through assisting my mom in her work and job shadowing various people I reached the conclusion that I want to major in a business- related field be it management or marketing.

I’ve always been that kind of guy who was good with numbers. Throughout my school years, I never had the desire to put in extra effort when it came to English classes or written works. My focus really seemed to rotate around a desire to be a hundred and ten percent into computers and technologies. I assumed that I would always have access to word processors or the Internet if I ever needed spell checking or literacy advice, or at least that’s how I summarized it. So, that philosophy only worked for so long, in a nutshell, less than two years into my first career job!

“First finish your work, then you can play to your heart’s content” was the chiding I would always receive when my parents caught me messing around while I had work pending. They would say that studying was my primary job as a student and should be given the most attention, but participating in other activities outside of school and devoting a portion of my life to nurturing my faith were just as essential.

I experienced the worst physical pain I’ve ever felt before and still to this day I have problems with my foot. I had to go to physical therapy after my third surgery where they removed the fixture and rod and put plates and screws in my ankle for support. It was my senior of high school and my doctors felt it best if I stayed home and took it easy. Being home didn’t go to well for me because I worked very to make good grades and I was in the national Honor Society. Being in National Honor Society I had to maintain a certain GPA. My teachers understood why I wasn’t there, but I wanted to be at school so I could keep up with my school work. Going back to school my friends helped me by pushing my wheelchair around and by caring my books. I managed to complete all my work and graduate high school being number ten in my class with an honors diploma. All my medical bills from ambulance rides, my hospital stay, and physical therapy piled up. These bills put a financial burden on my mom. She does everything for me and my sister and if I was awarded this scholarship, it would help take some of the financial stress off my

Choosing a career is not easy. Actually just the thought of it is quite overwhelming as this decision determines the rest of a person’s life. It does not help that I can be indecisive. Whether it is choosing one of Baskin Robin’s incredible thirty-two ice cream flavors, or deciding if I should leave the house in pajamas instead of a T-shirt and jeans. However, a career choice is by far, the hardest decision I have come to face.

We all go through hard things in our lives. Some of these changes alter the way we live negatively while others bring around great positive change. I have gone through one of these changes and I believe I have greatly progressed as a person from it. I came here from Iran, speaking very little English and I believe myself to be relatively fluent now. I came to Trade Tech to learn more about my passion, chemistry. In Iran, I graduated from a pre-university with the equivalent of an Associates Degree in Chemistry. Here, at Trade Tech, I am double majoring in Chemistry and Math and hope to earn an Associates Degree in Chemistry and transfering to a UC or Ivy League college.