Evaristo Salas Jr.

And I'm going for my AAS, which is a transfer degree.

And so when I hit the two-year mark and I get my A, then I'm going to transfer to a university and go for a four-year for my bachelor's or my BA.

And so the whole purpose behind all this is to give me the background to work with kids and the schools and be like a guidance counselor.

And that's something along those lines.

Or

You know, to work as a probation officer, even to work as counselors inside the prison system, all that kind of stuff.

You know, so I'm gearing.

I want to work towards the kids because I want to, especially in my community where I grew up at.

And but I just need that educational background because I've already had job officer offers in that area.

But if I take those now and don't take advantage of getting the schooling in.

then I'm going to get stuck in one place.

I'm not going to be able to move beyond that because it requires you to have an AA or a BA and all that.

So, so I figured right now I got, um, they have all these programs where they, which is really strange because, so the fact that I got out of prison and literally had nothing meant that there's so much financial aid and so much benefits open to me.

And so basically the government's, uh, federal government and different other programs that have are just giving me money because I'm

Of the past 27 years of having nothing, they're paying for the schooling.

They got me a computer.

They're going to pay for the gas.

They'll pay for housing, just all kinds of programs that they have that I kind of semi knew about in prison, but didn't know to the extent it wasn't until I got out.

And so they're pretty much funding my college.

The only thing is required of me.