Some Lessons from the assembly Line

            Andrew Braksmas essay is about him being a full time student to a full time worker over the summer. He describes how after working in the factories he appreciate being able to have a higher education. He learned how a person can be working at a place for years and still have to worry about being laid off, do to downsizing. I can relate to Braksmas because, after high school I went straight into the labor force working gruesome hours.

          My family had a family sign business that started from one car garage to a eight thousand square feet warehouse. My father built this business so that one day I would be able to run it. Right after high school I gladly accepted the responsibility to run the family business. But little I knew, how much time and dedication I put into the business. The overwhelming knowledge that goes behind making a sign was giving me white hairs. There was no college out there that would teach you how to build a sign. So the knowledge and the trait in building a sign was pass down to from my father. After four years in the industry I decided that the sign business was not for me. Its not the fact that I do want the responsibility if my father steps down. But the fact that I would have to crawl into a one foot attic to install a sign, or the long hours, and the constant phone calls from customers complaining about employees messing up is not the path I wanted for myself. So I fired myself to pursue my life long dream to become a chef.