High School Diploma Research Paper

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There are so many memories I have as a young teenager that could have had an impact on my adult life. The most memorable decision or choice that impacted my adult life was having a little girl at age seventeen. Actually, she was conceived at age seventeen during my senior year of high school but was not born until after I was eighteen. Having a child at a young age came with several life changes such as how it affected school, financially, stress and relationships. As you will see these obstacles were overcome. High school was by far the most awful time as a teenager. At seventeen years old, I was working two jobs and going to school my senior year when it happened. I became pregnant with my first child. What do I do? Unfortunately, I made the wrong decision regarding school and I stopped going half-way through my senior year. I would soon learn that not having a high school diploma would come with consequences. Some of the consequences were not having my diploma, then having to pay to go back to school to achieve it, graduating at the age of twenty-eight, and putting off furthering my education until now. I would advise any young lady in that situation to finish for their diploma because without it, you will face financial difficulties as well. …show more content…

How am I going to buy her what she needs? There are always consequences to every choice you make. What were some of my financial difficulties? To start, I had a lot of extra bills to pay for. I had an apartment, electric, water, formula, diapers, the list goes on and on. Ok, with all these extra bills how am I going to pay for them without a high school diploma? The struggle was now real with my finances. I began working for eleven dollars an hour at a veterinarian office. Now I have overcome school and finances; I would like to discuss how the experience came with added

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