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Hi,
I'm currently a 19 year old male, grew up lower middle class. My entire family are dropouts. My dad dropped out in 7th grade and my mother dropped out in 10th grade. My mother became a stay at home mom when she had my older brother and I, then had my little brother and sister and has been a SAHM since. My father has worked manual labor jobs making minimum wage. However, years later he became a plumber but still made way less than average household income when I was growing up.
Unfortunately, mid 10th grade, I was forced to drop out due to my father going to jail for something he did a while ago. Consequently, my mother had to get a minimum wage job working at a hotel with her hurt back she's had from a car accident a while ago. Of course it couldn't pay the $900 a month rent, utilities, food, etc, so I started working under the table in a physical labor job to help her out. 6 months later, my father finally got out of jail and things were getting slightly better.
However, 2-3 years went by and I've never gotten my GED. I've worked with my father on and off over the years to help them with bills since they still could barely afford them, but primarily have just been sitting around, learning and teaching myself things online. Fortunately, he got a better job with his experience as a plumber and makes $3-4k a month. Education has never been a thing in my family and I want to change that. My family doubts me because nobody in the family has ever become more than just a physical labor worker. They know I'm pretty intelligent(to them), but I feel as though I'm average, perhaps slightly less due to a lack of formal education.
I'll be the first in my family to obtain a GED and go to college. They don't understand why I'm stressed, I don't want to be like them and continue lack of education in the family. I've always loved medicine and helping others. Ever since I was a child, I've dreamed of becoming a Doctor and it's been with me ever since. Do you think my background will enable me to achieve my dreams or will it disqualify me from medical school?
Additional things I'll include that isn't in the story: father is a verbally abusive alcoholic and mother was addicted to pills. My father and older brother berates me for wanting to pursue a career outside of physical labor jobs that they do, so unfortunately I also have no support, haha.
My apologies for the extremely long post and if it's all over the place, to get straight to the point just read the paragraph in bold, thank you for your time.
I'm currently a 19 year old male, grew up lower middle class. My entire family are dropouts. My dad dropped out in 7th grade and my mother dropped out in 10th grade. My mother became a stay at home mom when she had my older brother and I, then had my little brother and sister and has been a SAHM since. My father has worked manual labor jobs making minimum wage. However, years later he became a plumber but still made way less than average household income when I was growing up.
Unfortunately, mid 10th grade, I was forced to drop out due to my father going to jail for something he did a while ago. Consequently, my mother had to get a minimum wage job working at a hotel with her hurt back she's had from a car accident a while ago. Of course it couldn't pay the $900 a month rent, utilities, food, etc, so I started working under the table in a physical labor job to help her out. 6 months later, my father finally got out of jail and things were getting slightly better.
However, 2-3 years went by and I've never gotten my GED. I've worked with my father on and off over the years to help them with bills since they still could barely afford them, but primarily have just been sitting around, learning and teaching myself things online. Fortunately, he got a better job with his experience as a plumber and makes $3-4k a month. Education has never been a thing in my family and I want to change that. My family doubts me because nobody in the family has ever become more than just a physical labor worker. They know I'm pretty intelligent(to them), but I feel as though I'm average, perhaps slightly less due to a lack of formal education.
I'll be the first in my family to obtain a GED and go to college. They don't understand why I'm stressed, I don't want to be like them and continue lack of education in the family. I've always loved medicine and helping others. Ever since I was a child, I've dreamed of becoming a Doctor and it's been with me ever since. Do you think my background will enable me to achieve my dreams or will it disqualify me from medical school?
Additional things I'll include that isn't in the story: father is a verbally abusive alcoholic and mother was addicted to pills. My father and older brother berates me for wanting to pursue a career outside of physical labor jobs that they do, so unfortunately I also have no support, haha.
My apologies for the extremely long post and if it's all over the place, to get straight to the point just read the paragraph in bold, thank you for your time.
