The Importance Of Work In America

America the land of opportunity, where everyone can come work and accomplish their dreams. America meant for me the opportunity to work, where everyone had the same chance to work, no matter if you were poor or rich, black or white, short or tall. They all had the opportunity to work. Even those who didn’t want to work at all. Our whole life’s revolve around work. Work is a competition to see who can do it better or a competition to see who could get the job in the first place, but it’s actually more than that. America gave my definition of work a whole perspective. Work is also wealth, self-worth, and class status, but most important it was also a special right in America that could only be obtain with a birth certificate that said born in

Although we worked hard for what we had there was no going up also because we were illegals and we are looked upon as a working class nothing more, but our hard work payed off, we weren’t at the bottom, we were at the top looking down. Our had work gave us the opportunity to succeed and open a store, now we weren’t the ones taking the jobs, we were the ones creating work for others. The opportunity of work we had in return created more work for others. But everything changed too because my wholes family work ethic change we weren’t the ones being bossed around, we were the ones putting authority. There were no more 8 hours shift and you are done, no, there were 10 to 12 hour shifts, there were no more “I’m sick, I can’t come in”. People have the idea that when you have your own business you’ll work less and as business owner let me tell you first hand that you are not the slave of someone else anymore, now you are the slave of your own time and money. Although time is money, money is work, and a lot of it. Even though I’ve been in the working class and the top class, I still believe that work is a privilege not a punishment. Even if you are homeless with nothing and begging for money, you are