My Job Corps Experience

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A memorable day in my life is when I came to job corps and got my high school diploma. I never thought I could do it but when I did I felt like I accomplish so much in life. It has yet to end job corps made me a better person when I came here. I can finally say I finished school. And that I made it to be successful in school and not be held back no more on stuff. As I walk through the halls of job corps I felt like I could do it from the first till the last day that I was here. I choose job corps to finish school and get a better job. Actually make it to the marine’s cause that is my dream and to do that I enrolled in job corps. I never thought about going to job corps till my mom told me about how good the program is so I signed up. It took

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