My Job Corps Experience

Before I decided to sign up for Job Corps, I had moved out when I was 16 years old because I wanted to go to another school for my freshman year. I was mainly on my own with less support. My mother said it was okay to stay with my God-Mother and go to school. As the school year started and I was ready to start my freshman year at Leake Central High School. My freshman year of high school was very hectic but I was new so it didn’t bother me as much. Overall, my freshman year was great. My sophomore year was the year I started to slack and also my attitude was more involved my sophomore year than my freshman year. My sophomore year, I was into a lot of arguments and also getting bullied by other females that was in a higher grade than me. As I got the negativity away
I began to stress about myself even more. I began to stress about school and how my absences will affect me and my work. I had the most problems on my shoulders that I could bare. I was stressing about school, my family, and also my health. School had become my last priority because everything was falling on me so fast. I only could handle little by little until I broke down. My sister got pregnant at the age of 16, my mom was having financial problems and also my grandmother having surgeries back to back. My family problems became my first priority and that’s when I decided to stop going to school, instead of finishing my junior year and move back home and get my GED. My mother and I decided that I should start doing classes online, but that didn’t go as planned. So I started doing classes at a GED center, financially we wasn’t stable to constantly go back and forward three times out of a week every week. I went through options after options. Months went by and I still didn’t get myself together to finish up on my education. Eventually, my final option which was my last time trying, was signing up for Job