GED Stories

Name: Chimanga
Age: 35
City and State: Los Angeles, CA
What motivated you to get your GED? I was 17 years old, living in Los Angeles, and at the time I was hanging “with the homies” and doing nothing. Having always being an avid reader, I read some autobiographies of successful people and always dreamt of being one. [...]

Name: Jessica
Age: 20
City and State: Knoxville, TN
What motivated you to get your GED? I have a one year old daughter, and I am seven months pregnant. I realized that with the economy going downhill, I’ll need a career. In order to do that, I will need my GED.
How have your friends and family helped you? [...]

Name: Kimberly
Age: 23
City and State: Aylett, VA
What motivated you to get your GED? My family. I really want to better myself and try to become a nurse or work in the medical field.
How have your friends and family helped you? They are there for me. They tell me that they will help me any way [...]

Name: Blanche
Age: 35
City and State: Massillion, Ohio
What motivated you to get your GED? Well, I want to go to nursing school to be a nurse.
How have your friends and family helped you? My fiancé has encouraged me to take my GED so I can be a nurse.
What problems have you faced? I once had a [...]

Name: Kathie
Age: 42
City and State: Smyrna, Tennessee
What motivated you to get your GED? Well, I am 42 and recently divorced. I have always worked but not for very high pay. My daughter is 22 and getting ready to go to college. It is almost Christmas, and I can barely give my kids Christmas this year [...]

Name: Pamela
City and State: Silverspring, Maryland
What motivated you to get your GED? Well first of all, I was in high school and I dropped out at the end of tenth grade because of family reasons. I was seventeen and I realized that staying home, thinking about parties and clubs was not going to help me [...]

Name: Felicia
Age: 38
City and State: Pueblo, Colorado
What motivated you to get your GED? I finally got my kids in college and now I see that you really can get far in life with a higher education. I’m a CNA now, but now I want to be an RN. The only way for that [...]

Name: Skye
Age: 21
State: CA
What motivated you to get your GED? When I was 15 I got pregnant and I felt helpless like no one my age would understand the changes I was about to grow through. I felt judged and out of place and the pressure of being alone finally got to me, so I [...]