It’s so worth going to college and holding off on working full time for a little bit in order to obtain a degree. Andrew Braaksma’s essay, “Some Lessons from the Assembly Line,” reveals how he himself worked full time over the summers in between school years to make money. During these summers he worked to the bone, early mornings to late nights. Instead of taking a normal job for college kids, like being a waiter or a cash register, he chose to go home and work in a factory with huge machinery. In doing this he started to really cherish going back to school when summer ended. While he would love to finally be back to school in the fall, his friends would be pissed that the summer is over. Not because Andrew hated summers, but because he just couldn’t stand working in that factory day and night for such low wages. He started to realize that if he never gets a college degree he’d have to do that for the rest of his life. Maybe not that job in particular, but a job similar. He’d be working at a job where he would be working very long hours for such a low pay. Now whenever Andrew goes back to school he always has an incentive to work harder because he knows what it would be like if he doesn’t do good in college. Andrews learned from his summer days and is going to work hard in college to get his degree. After getting his degree he’ll be able to get a nice relaxing office job where he’ll be able to work on fine hours and receive a nice salary unlike those without their degrees.
Braaksma, Andrew. “Some Lessons from the Assembly Line.” Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition. A. Rosa and P. Eschholz. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2010. 484-6.
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