what motivates me?

What Motivates Me
What motivates me? That’s a good question, I never really thought about what motivates me until that question was asked. I guess the answer to what motivates me is my family, but not in the typical motivation someone would get from their family, but instead because I can see all the things that they struggle with daily and I don’t want to struggle like them for the rest of my life.
I have two sisters that are older than me, one 9 years older and one 7 years older. I see my oldest sister living at a house that is crumbling around her because she didn’t want to go to college and was stuck at job with no job security. Today she is jobless and trying to raise a family off of her husband’s salary that he gets working a rent a center. My other sister works at Dillard’s where she doesn’t make enough to support herself and pay her bills, she struggles and is constantly coming back home to eat because she can’t afford to buy food. I don’t want to be like that when I’m almost 30 years old.
My dad is 52 years old with no job, he relies on my mom and I to pay the bills or just get the basic necessities that we plus my little brother need. He never went to college and worked at dealership after dealership until there were so many layoffs he just couldn’t find a job. What motivates me most is the fact that he hasn’t had a job in over a year and now even though he is looking he is getting passed over for job opportunities because he doesn’t have a college degree.
My worst fear when I’m older is to be anything like my two older sisters and my father. I want to be able to support myself; I want to know that I can raise a family and be able to support them. My dad has put all of the responsibility on my mom and I. My motivation is my family and seeing all that they go through on a daily basis, I want more then what they have!