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when i got here i just walked into one of these employment agencies, and they have a position. like a waiter or bus boy, cook, dishwasher, something like that. when you first came to america, is this the kind of work you expected? well, i decided to come here, i was thinking about some better job. maybe like 40-hour work week. can make some money for living. maybe i can have time to go to school. but i don t see any choice here. like other poor immigrants, he had to seek a menial job at one of these agencies. they have connections all over the country. you see a big map of the united states. sending workers to small towns across america. so each one of these pieces of white paper represents a different job? right. they put the area code. that means which state. kitchen helper. general helper. bus boy.
when i got here i just walked into one of these employment agencies, and they have a position. like a waiter or bus boy, cook, dishwasher, something like that. when you first came to america, is this the kind of work you expected? well, i decided to come here, i was thinking about some better job. maybe like 40-hour work week. can make some money for living. maybe i can have time to go to school. but i don t see any choice here. like other poor immigrants, he had to seek a menial job at one of these agencies. they have connections all over the country. you see a big map of the united states. sending workers to small towns across america. so each one of these pieces of white paper represents a different job? right. they put the area code. that means which state. kitchen helper. general helper. bus boy.
something like that. when you first came to america, is this the kind of work you expected? well i decided to come here, i was thinking about some better job. maybe like 40 hour work week. make some money for living. maybe i can have time to go to school. but i don t see any choice here. like other poor immigrants he had to seek a menial job at one of these agencies. they have connections all over the country. seeing a big map of the united states. sending workers to small towns across america. so each one of these pieces of white paper represents a different job. right, they put the area code. that means which state. kitchen helper. general helper. bus boy. they can call employer to ask if the job is still available to decide whether they re going to hire me or not. it s so interesting all these
from his first job as a bus boy, vincent has worked his way up. now a waiter at another restaurant he has regular hours and earns a little under $30,000 a year. it s progress, but still a far cry from the life he imagined. it s been 16 years since you first came to america. you re still working in a restaurant. right. did you think this would be the case when you first decided to come to america? i want to go to school. i want to find a new job. i want to find a good job. i want to have a life. but if i work in a restaurant, it s not going to happen. this kind of work can feel like a trap and while vincent has escaped some of the worst practices in the restaurant business, many chinese immigrants still make less than minimum wage, get no overtime pay and even experience wage theft.