fEbony has 11 post(s)

I am Jamaican I spent my summer there It was amazing. I have associates in human service from Bronx community college in 2015. This class is a requirement for me to graduate but I am a social welfare major so I am interested I giving back and helping those who are not able to advocate for themselves. My dream job is to work for Administration of Children Services.

To answer the question do I work? well, it’s quite complicated I got fired in July but I will be rehired next week where I will be working at City College the uptown campus in the College Now department. My grandparents were farmers. My grandfather worked the land and he planted yam, banana and other types of produce and also raised cows and other cattle, while my grandmother took them to the market and sold them. They worked very hard to provide for his ten children. My mom is the second child out of 10. She worked as a music teacher before I was born she then continued until she had my little sister. With two children she had to acquire another job she then became a live-in home health aide. She has been with the same employer for the las 20 years. Her dedication and drive inspire me to work hard so that she could live comfortable.

I believe that knowing how hard my grandparents and my mom had to work gives me a different outlook on what I think work is today. I think today’s job market is great and now it has variety compare to their time. I believe that education is the key and without it, most people would be lost. If my mom had an education she would have had a different option but because she did not have more than a high school education she ended up being stuck and had to struggle to make ends meet.

My goals and hopes for the future are to go to Hunter college and acquire my masters and work for ACS. File for my mom and sister so that they could come live with me in New York city and have a few children marry my high school sweetheart and live happily ever after.

In understanding Weber’s meaning of “ethic” of work. it is something that you have to do for the rest of your life that determines your place in society, it also determines your economic growth and prosperity. He spoke about the relationship between the catholic and the protestants.  where one work for economic stature and gain and the other more for leisure. People only want to make enough to live comfortable. I believe that is true we work to only to accommodate our type a living so to me work is a means of survival. in this world that we live nothing is free and I was taught that if you want it you would have to work for it as my grandma would say “if you want good yuh nose have to run” meaning everything in life that you want requires work and dedication if you want to keep it.