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When UNM freshman Pete Villegas took a part-time night shift job at a newly opened little diner across the street from campus, that’s all it was: a part-time job at a little diner across the street from campus.
The eldest of six children in a military family, Villegas had recently departed early from the U.S. Air Force Academy – “Let’s say military was not a career choice for me” – and was bound, he thought, for a teaching career.
But the job was good, and Villegas found he was good at it and he stayed – and stayed, and stayed.