San Diego Job Corps Center

I am currently a student at this location studying Auto Mechanics. The program overall is a good opportunity. You get your High school (if needed), your DL, your trade and not to mention free housing and food. The food is not Five star quality, but it also isnt the worse. And they have options. You can have a salad, or a sandwich, or the meat entrée or vegetarian entrée.
My only problem with Job Corps is the drama. I was warned about drama, but I did not think it was going to be as bad as it is. Guys will approach you the first day you show up, and i mean more than five guys will try and spit game. The only true way to avoid any drama is to stick to yourself. Never let your guard down. The students there are fake. It is like high school all over again but worse because it’s a bunch of 20 year olds acting like 16 yea olds.
If you are considering enrolling just make sure to prepare yourself. Stay focused on what you went in for and DO NOT LET ANYONE DRAG YOU INTO THEIR PROBLEMS.

I was lucky enough to be invited to an event last week at the Job Corp. The Homeland security students greeted me at my car and escorted me to the building. Then the hospitality students welcomed me and escorted me to the banquet room. The complete meal was made and served to a room full of guests by the students and everyone marveled how wonderful it was prepared and tasted. Some even asked if they could book an event at the school. The students were more professional than most paid servers working in the community. The Job Corp is doing a wonderful job.

Very great plase to find a job & get your GED or High school diploma I was a student there for 2 years found job and everything ill tell you the good and bad
The Goods: get jobs, get diploma, & lots of work skills and experienced in work fields.
the Bads: lots of drama, some of the staffs are rude, the girls are dirty, the boys are trusty for booty, some kids are still on drugs, & lots of budgets cuts.

but over all its a good place but just watch out for the bad stuff & keep your A game on ²⁴⁄₇

I HATE to hear that this place has such a bad stigma attached to it, but reputations do die hard. Admittedly, when people ask where I went to school, I kind of sink into myself and try to say under my breath that I went to Job Corps. This is where I have to brace myself for what I am bound to hear in response, either «Oh wow, you must have been bad» –or– «what is that?»
TLDR (too long didn’t read summary): Here I am, post Job Corps working as a computer repair technician making almost 40k a year. Some little known things about job corps include: You get a $ 20 — $ 40 allowance each week. They will help you get your driver’s license and they will pay YOU $ 20 cash for it. They will help you get your GED and pay you $ 100 cash for doing it. They will help you get your highschool diploma and pay you $ 200 cash for it. (don’t quote me on the numbers, they could change — this is just a ballpark) Finally they will pay you $ 1000 for finishing their vocational program. You DON’T have to live here, but living here IS bearable. You DON’T have to go to the San Diego location, they have Job Corps in almost every state and they will pay for a roundtrip ticket for you to go to one in another state and they HAVE DIFFERENT vocations in other states (avoid LA/​Long Beach Job Corps though…) No other country in the world has facilities like this to help young people, so people from all over the world come here. While going to school here you get full medical benefits, dental benefits, three meals a day, a place to live and a bed of your own. It’s an amazing little community that is self sustaining and each trade helps keep the campus in shape, and you do too by cleaning both the workspaces as your dorm. It’s like communism — they expect you go to school and study a trade then you get universal healthcare, a place to live and you just have to participate in the society.
Yes this place can be downright ghetto at times, which is sad, but you can always make the best out of a situation, especially this one. It’s the people who succumb to the «dark side» who are the people who perpetuate the «ghetto-​ness,» which is why the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. Just separate yourself from those people and focus. It was seriously a wacky world to live in for a while and it changed my life positively. No I wasn’t an ex-​con, druggie, street youth, and NO! I was never «bad.» In fact I never experienced that «bad high school rebellious stage» some of us are supposed to go through because I was struggling so much at Morse High, that instead of helping me, they suggested dropping out and going to charter school. Charter school was no better, they just suggested getting a GED. It seemed every place suggested giving up on the greater dream.
So I waddled around life for a while and tried nearly 20 different jobs. I was happy for a while working at a UPS hub making a little over minimum wage — but at least it was stable right? Plus I got a turkey around the holidays, it was nice to feel a part of the working world and contributing to society. Cut to finally around ²⁰⁰⁷⁄₂₀₀₈ when the economy went sour and I got laid off. I was also «trying» to go to community college, as most people my age (at the time in my very early 20’s) who grew up lower middle class do. Parents can’t afford college so I have to splash around in the kiddie pools of academia until I can hold my breath long enough to get through it. As soon as I got laid off I happened to be at one of my colleges’ biannual job fairs which is where I saw a booth for the San Diego Job Corps.
There are a lot of messed up people (staff and students) but there are a lot of good people and I had the best experiences of my life here. If you focus on getting the most out of it, you can make it through the program in as little as six months, I almost did but I got really comfortable. We would eat our dinners quick and go boogie boarding/​surfing at Imperial Beach after class until sunset, it was a wild time and you bet I would do it again if I could. I had so many adventures even though I was supposed to be locked down to this school, and I don’t regret a thing!

Great place to earn your G.E.D or High School diploma, joined the military after graduating and got a $ 1200 bonus.
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A decent place to earn your high school diploma or G.E.D. and you can also learn a trade (carpentry, electrical, culinary, auto repair, computer tech, etc.). Would recommend if you have no where else to go and want to turn your life around. They give you 3 square meals a day, bus transportation to the trolley and Chula Vista mall, an allowance every 2 weeks and room and board. You pay for nothing, all they ask if that you don’t steal from other trainees, don’t fight with other trainees and staff, don’t do drugs on center and succeed with your goals. If you live on center, you have to clean your dormitory twice a day during the week/​end. Center hours are from 8am-​4pm. You are allowed to leave center after 4pm, but if you are under 21 must be back on center by 10pm and if you are over it is 11pm. Trainees are allowed to go home if live nearby on the weekends. Graduated class of 2007.

My daughter will be attending I am not to sure if it will work for the better or the worst But so far so good

Not only am I alumni to this technical school, but am also a fan of the work they do for the youth and their community. I spent my early twenties here and gained alot of independence thanks to faculty and their lessons they implemented in every day living and learniing. I graduatedwith the class of 2001. That was an excellent time for me.