“The confidence you lose, you can build again.”

Keanu Estrada
1 min readJun 27, 2024

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Solid wall to a door, in an instance.

It sucks asking people for money to support us.

2 days of HipHopforChange; and blond hair dye, to 4 months dishwashing at Whole Foods.

“If I don’t get this job, I don’t know who’s going to hire me.”

To one 2020 Census completed for the Stack.

(“Yeah, don’t quit your full time, this is a part-time position.”) — Heidi

Back to the Nordstrom warehouses assembly lines for a month. Working at 5 am ish.

Where I met Ross, formerly incarcerated, who advised me to look out for the “big boss” in every room I’m in.

If my request for accommodations cause undue hardship, we transferred to another department.

The thing I hate is when people try to place me like they know my destiny.

To an Amazon Prime Shopper for a year at the same Whole Foods, I washed dishes. Working at 3 am ish.

To working for my favorite sports team, the Golden State Warriors. They really gave Guest Experience team a ring :’)

To working full-time for more than two years.

My full-time job, the happiness ain’t fully there.

I got happiness from getting the job, and it ain’t everything.

The bonuses ain’t everything either, either is organizational recognition.

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