Balancing work, school and family life
Balancing career demands, family responsibilities, and college studies has never been an easy feat. Since time as a resource, has been and probably will always be scarce, we have to manage it as efficiently as possible. Seemingly, your time is already being stretched too thin, with work and family obligations, so taking on the added responsibility of a college education, makes it even more daunting. But looking across the board of any spectrum of middle income earners, one thing that we find common among them is a college degree. With that being said, many people find it an uphill task to obtain a degree. This is because they already have work and family obligations to contend with. However, with higher education being the way out of poverty for most people, they decide later in life to go to college, to pursue tertiary education. Even though pursuing a college education can be an uphill task, its benefits, outweighs any challenges it may present. In the end, it affords you and your family, the chance of getting ahead in life. One of the problems most people in this situation face is how much time they spend at the workplace. Whichever way you look at it, there are only twenty four hours in any given day. So more often than not, you will find yourself out of time, running late, trying to get from one particular engagement to the other, or turning in overdue writing assignments. Most people spend between eight to ten hours on the job on a daily basis. In spite of the added responsibility of college work, you are still expected to meet productivity levels and even in some cases, exceed them. You have deadlines to meet, meetings to attend, and bosses to answer to. Now that you are a college student, the boss has found a way to give you more responsibilities. Of course this comes with some remuneration for your troubles. Brace yourself. Nobody said it was going to be easy. If it is easy, it probably wouldn’t be worth much, anyway. There may be times when you