Throwaway because I don’t want this associated with me publically. I grew up in the Imperial Valley, California and graduated from CUHS the year after the rece

Throwaway because I don’t want this associated with me publically. I grew up in the Imperial Valley, California and graduated from CUHS the year after the recession hit. At the time I had no prospects, I wasn’t a software developer, I didn’t have the grades or money for college outside IVC and neither did many of my classmates. No fewer than 7-10 people my age, my class, were working the fields nearby the winter after graduation, all US citizens most at least 2nd generation, 2-3 pochos that couldn’t even speak Spanish. It wasn’t good money, but it was money that was available without having leave/stop helping your family and move to San Diego and pay San Diego rent, food, transport, and moving prices for some shitty job at a Cici’s Pizza while living in a 2 bed/1 bathroom apartment with 4 other people and trying to catch classes at grossmont, city, Mesa etc simultaneously. Many people would take that opportunity, you just don’t know any of us.