Example A
Colleen was born to a single mother, and while she had a somewhat stable household, she had little growing up. Her mother worked the graveyard shift for a local warehouse doing data entry and they were barely above the poverty line each year. Her mother didn't even finish high school and ended up dying right after Colleen finished high school.
Colleen had her problems in high school, but she graduated and finished community college. She had to work through senior year of high school and all through community college and could never muster the money or time to go back to school - she had to support herself. She landed a job at a local public school teaching music class - her passion. She ended up making $20/hour for the rest of her life, doing what she loved and expanded the local public school district's music program into one of the state's leading programs.
She is successful.
Example B
Amy came from an upper-middle class family. Her father was an architect and her mother was an after-school supervisor for the local public school district. Amy breezed through high school, receiving mediocre grades, and then went to a relatively obscure and undistinguished private college on her parent's dime. She spent most of her time partying and barely earned her B.A. in Communications with a 2.3 GPA. After college, she stayed at home for a bit and then had her mother help her land a position at the local public school, teaching geography. She makes about $20/hour, doesn't complain, and does that for the rest of her life. She doesn't really care about what she does, but likes it because it's easy.
She is not successful.
Colleen was born to a single mother, and while she had a somewhat stable household, she had little growing up. Her mother worked the graveyard shift for a local warehouse doing data entry and they were barely above the poverty line each year. Her mother didn't even finish high school and ended up dying right after Colleen finished high school.
Colleen had her problems in high school, but she graduated and finished community college. She had to work through senior year of high school and all through community college and could never muster the money or time to go back to school - she had to support herself. She landed a job at a local public school teaching music class - her passion. She ended up making $20/hour for the rest of her life, doing what she loved and expanded the local public school district's music program into one of the state's leading programs.
She is successful.
Example B
Amy came from an upper-middle class family. Her father was an architect and her mother was an after-school supervisor for the local public school district. Amy breezed through high school, receiving mediocre grades, and then went to a relatively obscure and undistinguished private college on her parent's dime. She spent most of her time partying and barely earned her B.A. in Communications with a 2.3 GPA. After college, she stayed at home for a bit and then had her mother help her land a position at the local public school, teaching geography. She makes about $20/hour, doesn't complain, and does that for the rest of her life. She doesn't really care about what she does, but likes it because it's easy.
She is not successful.
