Do you have better access to education than your parents or grandparents did?

Pretty much most of my older relatives stopped attending school after about 2 years' worth of schooling with the exception of my mom and my uncle.

While growing up in Nicaragua I attended Catholic schools for about 2.5 years.

Honestly I hated going to school and preferred to go outside and play.

After I returned to the the U.S. I completed 2 years of HS in addition to working my butt off during the summers and winters to make up for being behind.

I finished HS on time, took a year break, went to community college for 2 years, left to live in Nicaragua for 3 years, returned and transferred to a 4-year university, finished my bachelor's 4 years later.

At this time, my uncle and a couple of my cousins completed university in Nicaragua and got their own bachelor degrees.

My mom continued going to school in the USA and got her master's.

One of my cousin's here in the USA recently got a bachelor's too.

I thought about going back to school and getting a master's but I'm just not that into school.

I did it just to prove to myself that I could do it, but in all I'm not sure if it was worth the time spent.

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