College Essay About Hard Work

Hard work is something that was drilled into me from my high school track coach. If you're going to want to be something you have to put the work in he always said. He always wanted our team to be a family and work hard together. He never wanted to have someone ever doubt how hard we worked for what we earned.

He told me If I never wanted to be good as one of my teammates i'd have to work for it and change my attitude. That summer I spent most of my summer working out and getting ready for the upcoming season. I started doing it by myself then I started to get more and more guys come. That group of guys I worked out with are like my family I spent so much time that summer working out with one group of guys. We all changed our work habits and

started to push each other more and more everyday.
I didn't only put in a lot of hard work in sports, but also in school too. I had a terrible first two years of high school passing most of my classes with D’s. One of my teachers came up to me and told me I needed to put hard work in if I wanted to pass at all and do something about my grades. My last two years of high school, I took some hard classes not super hard, but still a challenge for me. Those last two years I worked my butt off to get all B’s that was probably the hardest thing i've ever done, I'm not much of a school person but I put the work in and It definitely paid off.
I put a lot of hard work in throughout my High school career but I never had a job through high school and i learned how hard it is to have a job.

My mother works in Steelcase Wood I obtained a job there and man was it a pain going from high school straight into the workforce; Working 40 plus hours some weeks and not having any time to be a teen. It was tough working that much in a factory with people always trying to blame the newbie on things. But I knew I needed to work hard and push through all the crap cause my parents weren't going to pay for all my college expenses. I worked my butt off sometimes staying over and getting close to 50 hour weeks wanting to quit but I never did. In the end it was all worth it cause now I'm furthering my education.

It all started with my track coach telling me i needed to work harder and that has driven me to work harder for longer than just one track season. Hard work is something that you either have or don't have you can't be “semi hard working” you either work hard or you're lazy. I'm happy I have that trait in my life I hope it stays with me the rest of my life cause hard work beats talent when talent doesn't show up. In the end if you put the work in great things will happen and it will pay

off.