Work Hard and Successful

Some people born in rich family and get all facilities instantly while some other born in poor family and get no facilities at all. But the important things that determine their success in the future is how they struggle and also work hard however the situation is.
I grew in a family that was not so rich. I have two brothers. My parents opened a bag store in “Pasar Turi”. They worked together. They worked very hard to fulfill and support all of our needs. Something that I could learn from my parent is, for them, education is the most important thing for their children. It was proved that, although the situation at that time is so difficult, my parents worked very hard to send us to one of the best school in Surabaya which almost all of its students were come from rich family.
It was no problem when I was at kindergarten but it got little bit hard for me to study in that school when I was at elementary school, especially to make a friend. We were come from different family background. They got all facilities they wanted. Every time there was a school break, they always talked about playstation games. I just could hear without knew anything about playstation games, even I never touched a playstation at that time. I felt that I was not supposed to study there, but my parents always told me,”maybe we are poor now, but if we always work hard, pray, and save the money, it is not impossible that we could be rich.” Because of that I studied very hard and as a result, as I was at elementary school, I was always the best ten students in class.
As I was getting older, I also entered one of the best junior high school in Surabaya. The situation had changed at that time. My family was little bit richer than before. Since I was at elementary school until I graduated from my elementary, I was picked up to school and sent home by man that his job was especially to pick up someone and send him or her home. But, when I was at junior high school I started to drive a car to school. My parents started to run a new system for me and also my brothers by gave us some amount of money every month, so that we could learn to manage our money. I started to go hang out with my friends. I started to spend a lot of money. I could not control my expenses and because of those things, my grade was getting down. My parents did not know about all of that because I just told them that I had private course until night. It was a terrible time in my life.
Suddenly it changed. When I entered high school, I started to think about my future. I could not live like the one that I did. I was running out of money. Every time I got money, I always spent it. If I kept living like this, I would not be a successful person like my parents. Then I started to think how to make money myself. At the second year of high school, I started to sell clothes to my friends, but it doesn’t work at all. Maybe that was my first time tried to work. I wore clothes that more beautiful than the one that I sold. My father told me that if I wanted to sell something, I was not supposed to wear something that more beautiful than the one that I sold. Even though I failed, my parents gave appreciation and always encouraged me. I did not give up after the failure. After few months later, I tried to sell top up voucher and beautiful phone number and it worked. Then I started to make a little money myself and began to save my money in bank.

Now I’m a year two university student. I do not sell top up voucher anymore but I still and will always be a hard worker. Beside engage in my activities as a student, I also work in my parent store. Sometimes, if there is a job vacancy that the requirements are suitable to me, I try to propose it, like I did on summer holiday as a freelance coach at adam khoo learning technologies group. I believe that one day I will become like my parents that build their kingdom from zero to become like this now by being a really hard worker.

Herman Chen (01120080038)