Michael's Story

I’m 25 years old and no high school education. I had a dead end job, not making any money, not able to pay my bills. Then I lost my job and couldn’t get another one. Others, they got the jobs and got more money because they had an education. Everywhere I’ve been so far it’s been like that.

Now I’m going back to school and then to college. I want to become a computer system analyst, which means I’ll be making roughly $80 thousand a year. I’ll be 30 years old, and I will finally do what I want to do, rather than, 'May I take your order'.