I'm going to a place called Job Corps, a free schooling program for hoodlum kids/young adults. They have many locations around the US and I'm going to the biggest center in the pacific northwest. Not quite a boarding school, you pick what kind of trade you want to specialize in and you take a course on it. Which trade you choose will dictate how long your gonna be there. I recently received an information packet in the mail giving me detailed descriptions of what you can and can't bring or be doing while on campus. They can be real nazis about certain things, but I have to look at the long term advantages. But growing up in the areas that I did, and with the parents I had, I learned a lot about keeping my nose clean. Or least least making it look like that's what I'm doing.
Street kids like me are who the program mainly takes in, kids who fucked around in high school or spent the better half of there teenage years living as criminals or otherwise being trouble makers. Both are things I excelled at, and this is really the only I chance I will have left to make a good career for myself. Without this, I'd probably have to go back to hanging out with my hoodlum friends, dealing drugs, or becoming a hired killer or some shit. During high school and even after I dropped out I was hanging with thugs, gang bangers, and other psychopaths getting involved in some bad shit. You name it and I've done it, they money was good too. Amazingly good to be exact, but at the cost of always having to look over my shoulder, wondering if some cop was gonna bust me or some cracked was gonna try and jack me. Once you've gone down a road like that it's very rare that you will ever get a chance at a better life, I just hope I can make it all work out in my benefit.
