College Was Too Expensive, Job Corps Was Just Right
Erick Carrasco works at a company that helps people with prosthetics, orthotics and compression solutions in Southern California. Erick manages the front office.
Los Angels Job Corps Graduate Erick Carrasco
“I do insurance authorizations,” he says, “insurance verifications. I schedule patients. I speak to the patients. I speak to the doctors.”
Los Angels Job Corps Graduate Erick Carrasco
After high school, Erick went to college. But it was too expensive.
“I feel like I needed a stable job first, and then I could go to school with my stable job.”
He heard about a free job training program called Job Corps.
“There are not a lot of opportunities that would give me that—so I had to take advantage of it and take advantage right now…I said to myself I have to do this, and I have to stick by it so that that way I can get a better career.”
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He stuck with it, completing the medical office assistant program at the LA center.Erick thanks Job Corps for giving him the skills he needed to get a good job and take the next step to an even better future.
Los Angels Job Corps Graduate Erick Carrasco
“I want to go to UCLA, that’s my dream school. But I’ll work, I’ll work, I’ll work until I can afford it…and Job Corps is helping me do that. I get paid really good here. I get paid really good.”
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