After graduating from high school, Alex James worked at Walmart, JCPenney and a Vietnamese restaurant. He quickly realized he wanted more out of life. He didn’t just want a job; he wanted a career. “I felt like I wasn’t living up to my full potential. I wanted to do something different and find something with […]
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Tony Flowers
“The highlight of my time at Job Corps was my instructors. They made me who I am today.” When Tony Flowers first arrived at the Gary Job Corps Center, he was looking for a way to make money so he could purchase his own clothes. He had always worked dead-end jobs, including shoveling the snow […]
Marina Perez
“Job Corps provided what I needed to make it,” Marina Perez said. After Marina’s mother passed away, she found herself living back home working a dead-end job. She was 23 and knew that, with every passing moment, she was missing her chance to do more with her life. Marina first heard about Job Corps when […]