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Article: High-schoolers make grade with L.A. businesses: Verbum Dei students' part-time jobs help defray tuition.(EDUCATION)(Joshua Timmons from Payden and Rygel )(Occupation overview)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 5, 2009
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The fast time Joshua Timmons showed up for work at Payden & Rygel he felt confused and out of place.
That was a month ago. Today, the part-time data entry and file clerk is handling his job just fine and feels right at home at the downtown L.A. money management firm.
"It's pretty easy," he said. "I can do it and, if I can't, then they help."
Here's the surprising part: Timmons is a 16-year-old 11th-grader at Verbum Dei High School, a Catholic all-boys school in Watts. And what makes his employment particularly noteworthy is that it's required by the school. In fact, like the other nearly 300 boys at Verbum Dei, Timmons works five days a month ...