And some of them I would put the skills that I learned, and they would ask, 'well where did you learn the skill?' And I was just point blank and I told them - this is where I learned it, but this is what I know how to do. "Some of them I just didn't put any work history and I just said, 'I haven't had a job in 20 years.' And I would put my old work history. On the job application process after her release But at first it was hard, and I couldn't figure out how I was supposed to account for that big of a gap." And finally, luckily yes, eventually someone did hire me, and I love my job. I put in over 100 applications all over the city of Fresno, and nobody would hire me. "Sometimes I get a little, I don't even know what word to use, a little upset with what had happened, but then I also have to realize, 'Ok, well it's happened and it's done and it's over with and I just have to move on.' When I tried to fill out job applications - I had jobs before I was incarcerated and I knew how to fill out the application, and I could write down my previous jobs and my work experience. On feeling frustrated about spending 20 years in prison So I went to the cash register with a couple of the items and they were 99 cents, and then I was like, 'Oh, this is one of those regular, everything is 99 cents.' But I was too frustrated to go back in and I just left and went back to the halfway house and told everybody I couldn't figure out the 99-cent store." So I had got like five or six items and I was looking at the prices and I'm like, 'Well is this one 99 ,' and I was adding them all up and I'm like, 'I don't have enough money for this,' so I put a bunch of the stuff back and I got like overwhelmed because I couldn't figure out how this store worked. And I went into a 99-cent store, and that was overwhelming because I was told some of the 99-cent stores, everything isn't 99 cents, because there are different types, I guess. "I was going to go to the store, so I got on the bus and went down to where the stores were.
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