Financially disadvantaged

What many would call a disadvantage I would consider an advantage. My family was poor. My dad was a logger and my mom stayed at home. We made under the poverty level for a small family but small we were not. I have 5 siblings. My parents decided they couldn't afford to send us to school. Every one of my siblings were home schooled up to and in most cases through high school. I learned how to do things I never would have going to public school in addition to learning traditional subjects I also learned how to milk, garden, cook, bake, sew, can, fence. Some of these skills may not have direct application to my career but the less substantial things I learned have put me at an advantage in many situations.

I may have never learned these skills if we weren't poor, so while some may consider it disadvantaged, I beg to differ.

I am still discovering the lessons I learned at home, and applying them to my life.