For almost ten years, Mauricio Aguilar vacillated between dead-end tech jobs paying $10-25 per hour, putting in long hours to support his wife and four children.
This went on until he "took Skill Quest up on its offer to help pay his tuition and certification fees."
Within two years, an "IT company saw that he had gotten his certification and hired him on the spot as an IT network engineer, earning $45 an hour, with a better schedule."
[Photo Credit: David Woo, Dallas Morning News]
American Dream Denies, Dallas Morning News
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