Career Project

Career project essay

“Money doesn’t grow on trees.” said almost every parent on Earth . Budgeting was going to be very hard, but this is how we learned to stay under a budget, we learned all about having a job, it surprised us all when we had to prepare and follow a budget, and it affected us in many ways. Once believing that our parents were just being plain mean, but now it could be fully understood by us. You would have thought after years of this quote being recited almost every week we would have caught on, but a history project taught it to me.
Automobile mechanics, where would we be without them. As an Automobile mechanic you will work on certain car part or a certain place in a car. Realizing that this job wasn’t going to get paid as much a month as people may like was astonishing. Working with this budget of about three thousand four hundred dollars was a lot harder than thought to be. This was going to be rather interesting!

Budgets...the one word that could ruin a middle schoolers day.

My budget was only three thousand four hundred fifteen dollars and eighty- two cents per month, with that we downsized a lot. We had to change apartments two to three times, but we settled down in San Francisco, California in an apartment that only cost six hundred and ten dollars every month. Go big or go home, right? Well you’d be surprised to learn going home is your only choice sometimes while balancing a budget. Just for the the record, cars cost way too much. My partners and I were searching for cars left and right, but only found a busted budget! After all of this complete chaos, we found a small, but under budget car. We elated to learn that we would not be

broke.
This project affected me in many ways. It was amazing to learn how people work hard on balancing their budgets and spending money correctly. It may have took a while to learn that needs must always come before wants, but now it is what I and my classmates will soon deal with. I also realized that money doesn’t grow on trees and why people cannot always get what they wants. It is now easier to see there is always a choice.
You could say we learned a lot throughout this project. We got to see what it is like to have a job and work with a budget. This project really help me understand the economy. It’s something different when you actually have to do something instead of just watching it. You would have never guessed the a civics project would have taught me so much about budgeting or even teach me that I will need to know how to budget, but you never know.