Mayor's Youth Employment Program

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I'm looking for a career path that's
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going to fulfill me one moment I was
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saying right where you guys are right
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now the next I was faced with corporate
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America I remember being nervous waiting
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to meet my employers the people you're
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about to meet want you to succeed in a
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few minutes the opportunity to choose
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your own life begins my internship
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turned into a four-year apprenticeship
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with Bosch Rexroth which I just
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completed and it helped me to get my
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associates of science and computer
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integrated machining and that is going
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to turn into me continuing my education
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to become a mechanical engineer I knew I
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wanted to be a police officer I just
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didn't know what that meant exactly I
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was able to ride with them for 10 hours
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on a police car go to cause do what they
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do see what they'd see it was a great
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experience there my internship and up on
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Hill they treated me like family I
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wanted to be a nurse anesthetist but
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worked in the surgery waiting room I got
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to scrub in to see his hip replacement
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surgeries so I got to see every process
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that went into the extra surgery
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I was a part of the my IEP program 2015
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and 2016 I interned at Edison Ford a
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construction company and at HM TV yet
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another construction company it was a
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good experience I learned a lot and they
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were willing to teach me everything that
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they knew through my internship I
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realized what my true passion was before
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I interned with BankAmerica I was I was
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all over the place I wanted to be a
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physicist a journalist a lawyer a
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firefighter a part of the police I
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wanted to be part of the FBI or CIA I
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wanted to work for the government I
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wanted to be an artist I wanted to be a
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dancer I got this experience for two
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months in the corporate world learning
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about the bank or finances or I would
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see what the tellers do or learn from
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the personal bankers you are ready
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because you are prepared to take
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advantage of the opportunity you don't
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always recognize the moments that will
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change your life at the time that
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they're happening but this is happening
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right now it's time
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