"I got a high school degree, I worked fixing cars, but there's no work," said Mander Grebis, 25, in halting French, as he stood in a group of young men huddled in front of the center's one vending machine.
He got a high school education and worked as a crane operator at Port Everglades.
"She was all the time dreaming to get a higher position at work," her mother said.
Aguirre, who has two daughters, ages 9 months and 3, was working on getting a high school diploma.
Instead, he traces the workers' dive into despair: the one who gets a high from saving others and the one who must literally get high in order to work.
If you graduate into a rum job market and can't immediately get a high-paying job to work off your student loans, will you regret having taken the degree?
They prepare all week, cleaning up their stuff, they get a table and improve their presentation and then they get a higher price for less work.
Community colleges also offer short-term training six months to a year) in in-demand fields that can help you get a higher paying job while working your way through college.
What do you get, besides money? A. I just get a higher knowledge for how brands work, what the 9 to 5 is.
I had to quickly adjust my expectations in terms of upfront fees, and tried to use the lower-than-hoped for fees as a negotiating chip to get a higher royalty, a tactic which worked fairly well.
