Labor Day weekend of 1971 was when Cathy Kim received her first experience of a contraction. Mom Kim asked her, “Cathy you alright?” She replied, “Yes”, and prepared for the holiday weekend. Well come Monday morning, September 6 1971, Cathy was packing for Lake Erie and her water broke. She screamed for my father, “Bruce, my water broke!” My father ran from the living roll, towards the hallway for the bedroom to my mother. From the telephone in the bedroom he called his family’s home to notify them of the emergency. On that day, a baby girl arrived, and her name was Trina Marie Kim. In 1977, my father remarried to Diana Schoonover, and she adopted my brother and me in the early eighties. In the late eighties I volunteered at the Helping Hand Club, took the bus to school, and lived on my own. April fool’s day of 1992, I experienced a contraction. At four o’clock in the morning April 2, 1992, was sleeping, but Kyle had other plans for me. I bolted to a sitting position with the bed all wet. Six months or so after Kyle I started thinking about when he would begin school. This is when I decided to return to school and received my GED in 1994. Instead of registering with the local university I registered with the local factory as a CNC operator. In 1998, my second son, Shane came into the world. In 1999, went to Hamlin Steel hired as a press punch operator working sixty to seventy hours a week. In 2003, my mother passed away, and I registered with the local vocational school for Mechanic Helper. The class was a year and in 2004 graduated with a certificate. Ron Marhofer called for an interview for a car porter opening. The money was not encouraging so back to the factories. In 2005 when enrolling Shane into Lawndale Elementary School I filed an application for volunteering. By October of 2005 employed with Akron Public Schools as a Substitute Educational Assistant. The school year ended in 2007, and I was jobless with no income. I filed an application for part- time customer service representative for Circle K, interviewed, and hired three days later. Employed ended with Circle K in 2011, dismissed for demanding a customer to remove the product out of her purse. The company has a handbook that every person who is a new hire has to read and sign. In the handbook states that employees are not allowed to confront customers because this permits the employee to place themselves in danger. About a week after discharged from Circle K I obtained a position with their competitor Speedway Super America as a CSR. In 2012, became deathly ill for a month with the flu and had no insurance for doctor’s appointment and dismissed. Four months later we moved out of the Akron, Ohio into a small town called Loudonville, Ohio. Found another CSR with Mickey Mart, but it was only twenty-four hours a week so back to the factory I returned. On December 11, 2013 Jeld-Wen Windows terminated everyone who had ninety days or less with Jeld-Wen and that included me. There had been rumors of layoffs, but not terminations. A couple of weeks before this happened I sat down and discussed the situation of the possibility of layoffs with my sons. I explained to them if the rumors were true that I would apply for unemployment and register for school at The University of Phoenix online. I have been able to return and further my education.