5-4 Assignment 2 Milestone 1 First Draft.docx - In Some...

In "Some Lessons From The Assembly Line," Andrew Braaksma tells us about the years he
spent attending college, and working as a temp in factories during each summer between
classes. He says he chose to do this work instead of other work because of overtime pay and
the fact that living at home is cheaper than living on campus. He also goes on to tell us about
the apparently very little amount of money he was making, and knowing that his job could
disappear over night.
The author's goal is to encourage people to attend college and earn a degree so that they can
work a stable job with good pay. I believe attending college and earning a degree is
something people should strive to do if at all possible. He presents a few good points that
further made me commit to attending college myself.
My first point is that he chose to do factory work full time for overtime pay and because
living at home is cheaper than on campus, instead of an easier, part time job like his friends
chose to do during the summer. I think him taking on that kind of work gave him a sense of
work ethic, and made him realize that college was important for him to be able to work a
better paying job instead of factory work or something equally as unskilled.
In paragraph 7 of the article, he says, "After working 12-hour shifts in a factory, the other
options have become brutally clear. When I'm back at the university, skipping classes and
turning in lazy re-writes seems like a cop-out after seeing what I would be doing without
school" (Braaksma).