The Price of Hustle
Ethan wiped the sweat from his brow as he stacked another cardboard box in the cramped storage room of the campus bookstore. His part-time job paid $12 an hour, barely enough to cover his rent and ramen diet. At 21, he’d imagined college life would be about lectures and late-night debates, not scrambling to pay bills. But when his scholarship fell through sophomore year, survival mode kicked in.
