Sociology 101 - How I Handle Role Conflicts and Role Strains

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Sociology 101

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How I Handle Role Conflicts and Role Strains

Life has never been easy since my family and I moved here from the Philippines. I practically left my very easy and comfortable life there. Before, I'm just a plain college student, asking my allowance from mom, dropped off to school by dad and my brother even helped me with my school works. But everything changed when we lived here. I need to stop schooling and to sustain our everyday living; all of us need to work. With that situation, I don’t get to see them a lot often because we don’t have the same days off. I’m always left alone at home when they’re at work and at the early age of 18, I’ve already learned to be independent. I’m a working student and the roles I portray are difficult. They may be stressful and have conflict sometimes but I’m making ways to make it all easy for me.

I work at a Filipino fast food 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. I need to wake up at 5:00AM just to be ready for work. It’s always busy at the store and it makes me very tired when I get off. But I still need to prepare for school. I need to do my home works for my two evening class. I really need to cope up with all of those school works because I don’t want to fail any of my classes. To tell you honestly, being a working student is such a strain for me and most of the people who are sharing the same situation as mine. Actually, before I entered school, I’ve already asked one of my coworkers to give me a tip on how to deal with working while studying. She told me that I should not force myself to do everything at the same time. That I should just take one step at a time because I might end up losing my job or either quit school. Yes, she's right. But it’s my first time to do this and it’s really causing me stress. At