Angela Bradley

By: Tiffany Occhiogrosso

Angela Bradley, Clarkston, MI senior, is a non-traditional student who knows more about life than the majority of SFASU students.

Bradley is a wife, a mother and a full time employee as well as student at SFA. She moved to Gary, TX with husband David Dziesinski Jr. Four years ago, and had son Calix Alva in February 2009.

With a one-hour one-way commute time from home to SFA, Bradley can only take classes Tuesdays and Thursdays this semester. With a husband, a baby, and a house to take care of, extra time is sparse.

To Bradley, school now is not much more difficult than it was as a traditional student. Due to work now and then, “It was always a class here, a class there,” said Bradley. “When you’ve got bills, work is more important.”

In this economy, Bradley’s priority doesn’t look so bad. In Michigan, husband David was laid-off from GM, which filed for bankruptcy and was bailed out by the federal government in late 2008.

This year, Bradley was laid off from her job at an oil field company due to 10 percent pay cuts and a slow environment. In the expert words of Bradley, “The economy sucks right now.”

As a wife, mother, worker and student, Bradley has much to juggle. However, Bradley still appears in classes every Tuesday and Thursday. Perhaps traditional SFASU students may learn a thing or two about priorities and time management from Angela Bradley.