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Hello everyone. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Torian Galvez. I am 24 years old, and I moved to Provo, Utah in January of 2018 from Las Vegas, Nevada. I am currently trying to study Dental Hygiene at Utah Valley University. The first day that school started, I was not eligible to start classes because my financial aid would not cover out of state tuition. I had given up a lot in Las Vegas to move out here to Utah just to get denied and have all of my classes dropped. During that time period, my old boss at Under Armour in Las Vegas was nice enough to transfer me to the store here in Lehi, UT. Since I was not able to take classes at UVU, and I only worked part time at Under Armour for 15 hours a week, I was looking for a second job right away. Thankfully, the day after UVU started classes, I was hired at Main Street Pizza in Provo. Working a second job helped save my life for the time I was not in school. I loved working there! However on February 25th, 2018, the pizza place announced that it was closing down and only gave 3 days notice to all their employees. With such short notice, I was in danger again, with my 20 hours a week there, GONE. Once the store shut down, I was out looking for a second job again. Keep in mind, throughout this experience, I didn’t have a car to get around. I applied for job after job, but they all only had part time slots available. I applied at Vivint and had 3 interviews, but was DENIED. I applied at Provo Beach (which is an arcade and Indoor Surfing Spot), but the day after my interview there, they emailed me saying they weren’t hiring. At this time, I just wanted to give up, because I was nowhere near earning the money I needed for school.
Then, on Thursday, March 15th, I met someone who I thought could help me get back on my feet. This person was going to save my life from all the dark depression and financial struggles that I wasn’t able to deal with anymore. We met at Under Armour, my only job at the time, where, he introduced me to a company called New Star. It’s pretty much a Sales Job selling through AT&T and DirecTV. I thought it was a great opportunity and I started going to this meeting on that they held on Thursday nights where we would learn how to sell the product and how to talk to people at their doors. This was the one opportunity where I really thought my life was going to change, both because I was with good people and because sales is a skill I excel at. I met with the CEO and my District Manager, and they said they would be able to help me get a $5,000 scholarship for UVU. In addition, they explained that if I made $500 in sales, then they and my friend who referred me were going to all pitch in $500 each so I could buy a car. That was one of the reasons why I was persuaded to join New Star and make money with them that I would normally be making at Under Armour. A couple days after that, I was offered a discount to get a new phone with AT&T and I was told that New Star was going to give me a huge discount on my phone bill. I ended up switching from an iPhone 6s to an iPhone X. The company gave me a discount of 50-60% off on my phone bill.
A week after that I was offered a job at Chick Fil A and I had just gotten hired and was about to do summer sales as well with New Star. I was stuck in that moment on what to do, because I needed the cash and it was taking awhile for me to get to the portion of the New Star job where I could start earning myself a paycheck. So I took the job at Chick Fil A, only to get my trainer upset. He told me I’d have to quit right away. I asked him, “What happens if I don’t make any money selling for example? If I quit I won’t have something to fall back to.” He told me, “Trust me, you will have this job and it will change your life.” I still had doubts, but this trainer was my friend who had helped me find a job with New Star in the first place, and the promise of the money to solve all my problems was really tempting, so I ended up listening to him and put in my two weeks at Chick Fil A after only working there for 3 weeks.
As my last day at Chick Fil A approached, my trainer told me that I was going to be trained on door to door sales approaches that Saturday. However, when that Saturday came, that trainer had completely forgotten. He told me that he had to be up really early in the morning, that he had a meeting, and that he had totally forgotten and was so sorry. This meant I didn’t get to knock doors and sell that Saturday. That weekend passed, and he didn’t get back to me until Monday or Tuesday, this time telling me that he forgot again. When I spoke to him that day, I asked him if we could go again this Saturday and he told me he couldn’t because he was already training 4 other people from his LDS mission that he served in Australia. At that point, I started freaking out and having a breakdown because in the past two weeks, I hadn’t been able to earn any money outside of my 20 hours a week at Under Armour and I still had bills to pay especially since I was (and still am) living on my own and I had just left Chick Fil A. At that moment, I felt like I should have never left Chick Fil A because the whole time I was there I had been doing alright, and paying my bills on time, but since I’d quit I had been given nothing but excuses and had not earned a single paycheck. I shared my fears with my friend, and he told me the next day that he would be able to help me out that Saturday. However, when Saturday came, he, once again, had totally forgotten about me and was unable to give me the training I needed to start earning my New Star paycheck.
At this point, I was just done working with him and his company. Even though I did what they asked and tried to work for them, my friend just couldn’t find the time to train me because he kept forgetting and would rather train his mission buddies. It took me a month to realize that this was not the job for me and that I was not making the money that I needed to be making at that time. I ended up leaving New Star and again found myself without a second job to pay my bills. I couldn’t go back to Chick Fil A, because they weren’t hiring anymore, so I was once again out looking. I ended up asking my cousin to help pull from my savings to help me stay alive and pay the bills. However, even after all this, I was still behind in my payments by $400 (I had just found out that the iPhone X I purchased with New Star still needed to be paid off and that there were service fees which New Star didn’t tell me about which needed to be paid off, causing $260 to go down the drain. I was really upset that this whole New Star thing, which I thought would get me out of debt and on my feet, ended up landing me with several more debts to be paid off, and left me behind on my other bills.
Then one day, my friends and I were going out to eat at this burger restaurant called Seven Brothers. While I was eating there, I remembered that I had put in an application to their restaurant a long time ago. I started to think a miracle might happen for me. I went and asked one of the employees and they went to go get the owner. I started talking to him about my application and that turned into an interview - I nailed that interview and I ended up getting the job on April 19th. I was excited to start that next week. However, my first week there was nothing but chaos. I was screamed at, I was told to say this and that and call my superiors this and that name when I was in the kitchen. It was very frustrating. I was working there four days out of six from April 22nd and then… suddenly… I was never scheduled again. When I found out I wasn’t on the schedule, I called my supervisors and stopped by the restaurant asking what had happened. Each time I asked, they wouldn’t give me any concrete answers. It took two months before I learned the truth. Apparently, they had ended up hiring someone else to fill my job despite the fact that I had been calling and coming down to visit them to try and figure out why I wasn’t being scheduled. TWO MONTHS wondering why I wasn’t working there. Did somebody there dislike me? Was I not keeping up with the pace? In the end they had no choice but to let me go officially when really I had been let go a long time ago because of somebody’s clerical error. It was discouraging and of course it got me upset and mad as well. I was also hurt as well. That was STRIKE 3 with jobs. Always it was a different reason, but each time, the job failed to be there for me when I needed it.
Now fast forward to today. I’m doing better than I was, but making ends meet is still difficult. Currently I’m working 3 part time jobs. I work at Under Armour still, and I also work at Hot Topic and Aeropostale. All 3 are retail jobs and they are not easy. However, I’m still stuck at under 40 hours a week, and aside from Under Armour, they all pay under 10 dollars an hour, which is only barely enough to meet my current bills. I work at Hot Topic Friday and Saturday night, and at Aeropostale only once a week for 5 hours. This is not enough. Rent is not cheap, groceries are not cheap, I need to save up for college, and on top of that I’m paying $124 a month for a phone I didn’t want but I got stuck with after being screwed over from trying to do summer sales. I have already tried to downgrade my phone, but I would need to pay off at least $800 of the phone so I officially owned it before I could do that. I have been through a lot. I am living on my own with over $330 a month and I just bought a car to try and increase my paycheck, but so far the three jobs haven’t provided me with more hours even with the greater availability this provided me. This car payment will increase my monthly bills by $350 a month plus insurance. That isn’t even considering that when I had my credit check, I found I still had $137 left in medical bills from my mission (that I thought was taken care of) and $117 from some random cable company. I didn’t even know I owed this money to anyone. As a result, all my of my plans are falling apart. The money I saved up for school is gone; I have nothing left in my savings and I am stuck trying to rebuilding that again, yet all of my money is already going to other bills I still need to pay. This entire Utah experience has been one huge rough patch for me, and I don’t know what else to do. So I’ve come to you for your help. All I am asking for is a $1 dollar donation -- I mean, ONE DOLLAR is ALL I am asking for. I’m currently trying to get back on my feet, and get some better jobs with better hours, but if you can spare 1 dollar, that would help a lot in paying off these huge monthly debts I have been saddled with so I actually have a solid foundation upon which to lift myself up. If I can do anything in return I would be glad to help as well, but $1 dollar is all I am asking for as a donation. This could really save my life. With your donation, I can get that iPhone paid off, I can pay off the debts on my credit, and in six months I can renegotiate my car payments down to a manageable rate. I might even be able to start saving again for school as well. My dream is to get my education and start providing for myself on my own. It has been a rough journey for me trying to get settled in Utah and get the education I want for myself, but with your help I can get back on my feet and out from under the dark shadow of debt which keep threatening to overwhelm me. Any money you donate will go immediately to paying off my debts - nothing else.
$1 is all I am asking for.
Your $1 can make a difference in my life. Thank you
Then, on Thursday, March 15th, I met someone who I thought could help me get back on my feet. This person was going to save my life from all the dark depression and financial struggles that I wasn’t able to deal with anymore. We met at Under Armour, my only job at the time, where, he introduced me to a company called New Star. It’s pretty much a Sales Job selling through AT&T and DirecTV. I thought it was a great opportunity and I started going to this meeting on that they held on Thursday nights where we would learn how to sell the product and how to talk to people at their doors. This was the one opportunity where I really thought my life was going to change, both because I was with good people and because sales is a skill I excel at. I met with the CEO and my District Manager, and they said they would be able to help me get a $5,000 scholarship for UVU. In addition, they explained that if I made $500 in sales, then they and my friend who referred me were going to all pitch in $500 each so I could buy a car. That was one of the reasons why I was persuaded to join New Star and make money with them that I would normally be making at Under Armour. A couple days after that, I was offered a discount to get a new phone with AT&T and I was told that New Star was going to give me a huge discount on my phone bill. I ended up switching from an iPhone 6s to an iPhone X. The company gave me a discount of 50-60% off on my phone bill.
A week after that I was offered a job at Chick Fil A and I had just gotten hired and was about to do summer sales as well with New Star. I was stuck in that moment on what to do, because I needed the cash and it was taking awhile for me to get to the portion of the New Star job where I could start earning myself a paycheck. So I took the job at Chick Fil A, only to get my trainer upset. He told me I’d have to quit right away. I asked him, “What happens if I don’t make any money selling for example? If I quit I won’t have something to fall back to.” He told me, “Trust me, you will have this job and it will change your life.” I still had doubts, but this trainer was my friend who had helped me find a job with New Star in the first place, and the promise of the money to solve all my problems was really tempting, so I ended up listening to him and put in my two weeks at Chick Fil A after only working there for 3 weeks.
As my last day at Chick Fil A approached, my trainer told me that I was going to be trained on door to door sales approaches that Saturday. However, when that Saturday came, that trainer had completely forgotten. He told me that he had to be up really early in the morning, that he had a meeting, and that he had totally forgotten and was so sorry. This meant I didn’t get to knock doors and sell that Saturday. That weekend passed, and he didn’t get back to me until Monday or Tuesday, this time telling me that he forgot again. When I spoke to him that day, I asked him if we could go again this Saturday and he told me he couldn’t because he was already training 4 other people from his LDS mission that he served in Australia. At that point, I started freaking out and having a breakdown because in the past two weeks, I hadn’t been able to earn any money outside of my 20 hours a week at Under Armour and I still had bills to pay especially since I was (and still am) living on my own and I had just left Chick Fil A. At that moment, I felt like I should have never left Chick Fil A because the whole time I was there I had been doing alright, and paying my bills on time, but since I’d quit I had been given nothing but excuses and had not earned a single paycheck. I shared my fears with my friend, and he told me the next day that he would be able to help me out that Saturday. However, when Saturday came, he, once again, had totally forgotten about me and was unable to give me the training I needed to start earning my New Star paycheck.
At this point, I was just done working with him and his company. Even though I did what they asked and tried to work for them, my friend just couldn’t find the time to train me because he kept forgetting and would rather train his mission buddies. It took me a month to realize that this was not the job for me and that I was not making the money that I needed to be making at that time. I ended up leaving New Star and again found myself without a second job to pay my bills. I couldn’t go back to Chick Fil A, because they weren’t hiring anymore, so I was once again out looking. I ended up asking my cousin to help pull from my savings to help me stay alive and pay the bills. However, even after all this, I was still behind in my payments by $400 (I had just found out that the iPhone X I purchased with New Star still needed to be paid off and that there were service fees which New Star didn’t tell me about which needed to be paid off, causing $260 to go down the drain. I was really upset that this whole New Star thing, which I thought would get me out of debt and on my feet, ended up landing me with several more debts to be paid off, and left me behind on my other bills.
Then one day, my friends and I were going out to eat at this burger restaurant called Seven Brothers. While I was eating there, I remembered that I had put in an application to their restaurant a long time ago. I started to think a miracle might happen for me. I went and asked one of the employees and they went to go get the owner. I started talking to him about my application and that turned into an interview - I nailed that interview and I ended up getting the job on April 19th. I was excited to start that next week. However, my first week there was nothing but chaos. I was screamed at, I was told to say this and that and call my superiors this and that name when I was in the kitchen. It was very frustrating. I was working there four days out of six from April 22nd and then… suddenly… I was never scheduled again. When I found out I wasn’t on the schedule, I called my supervisors and stopped by the restaurant asking what had happened. Each time I asked, they wouldn’t give me any concrete answers. It took two months before I learned the truth. Apparently, they had ended up hiring someone else to fill my job despite the fact that I had been calling and coming down to visit them to try and figure out why I wasn’t being scheduled. TWO MONTHS wondering why I wasn’t working there. Did somebody there dislike me? Was I not keeping up with the pace? In the end they had no choice but to let me go officially when really I had been let go a long time ago because of somebody’s clerical error. It was discouraging and of course it got me upset and mad as well. I was also hurt as well. That was STRIKE 3 with jobs. Always it was a different reason, but each time, the job failed to be there for me when I needed it.
Now fast forward to today. I’m doing better than I was, but making ends meet is still difficult. Currently I’m working 3 part time jobs. I work at Under Armour still, and I also work at Hot Topic and Aeropostale. All 3 are retail jobs and they are not easy. However, I’m still stuck at under 40 hours a week, and aside from Under Armour, they all pay under 10 dollars an hour, which is only barely enough to meet my current bills. I work at Hot Topic Friday and Saturday night, and at Aeropostale only once a week for 5 hours. This is not enough. Rent is not cheap, groceries are not cheap, I need to save up for college, and on top of that I’m paying $124 a month for a phone I didn’t want but I got stuck with after being screwed over from trying to do summer sales. I have already tried to downgrade my phone, but I would need to pay off at least $800 of the phone so I officially owned it before I could do that. I have been through a lot. I am living on my own with over $330 a month and I just bought a car to try and increase my paycheck, but so far the three jobs haven’t provided me with more hours even with the greater availability this provided me. This car payment will increase my monthly bills by $350 a month plus insurance. That isn’t even considering that when I had my credit check, I found I still had $137 left in medical bills from my mission (that I thought was taken care of) and $117 from some random cable company. I didn’t even know I owed this money to anyone. As a result, all my of my plans are falling apart. The money I saved up for school is gone; I have nothing left in my savings and I am stuck trying to rebuilding that again, yet all of my money is already going to other bills I still need to pay. This entire Utah experience has been one huge rough patch for me, and I don’t know what else to do. So I’ve come to you for your help. All I am asking for is a $1 dollar donation -- I mean, ONE DOLLAR is ALL I am asking for. I’m currently trying to get back on my feet, and get some better jobs with better hours, but if you can spare 1 dollar, that would help a lot in paying off these huge monthly debts I have been saddled with so I actually have a solid foundation upon which to lift myself up. If I can do anything in return I would be glad to help as well, but $1 dollar is all I am asking for as a donation. This could really save my life. With your donation, I can get that iPhone paid off, I can pay off the debts on my credit, and in six months I can renegotiate my car payments down to a manageable rate. I might even be able to start saving again for school as well. My dream is to get my education and start providing for myself on my own. It has been a rough journey for me trying to get settled in Utah and get the education I want for myself, but with your help I can get back on my feet and out from under the dark shadow of debt which keep threatening to overwhelm me. Any money you donate will go immediately to paying off my debts - nothing else.
$1 is all I am asking for.
Your $1 can make a difference in my life. Thank you
Organizer
Torian Galvez
Organizer
Provo, UT
