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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 dont 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 ac...

>> 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. its progress, but still a far cry from the life he imagined. >> its been 16 years since you first came to america. youre 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 h...

Kitchen helper. general helper. bus boy. the job is still available. to decide whether they will hire me or not. >> signing all these 318, 724, wow. with few other options and deeply in debt from the journey here vincent took a job on one of those post-it notes. >> the best i can find is a bus boy job. i had to work 12 hours a day. i got one day off. and i did earn some money but its not enough. >> its been 16 years since vincent first got here and today hes still trying to dig himself out. ever...

Our countrys oldest chinatowns. and its here that many chinese immigrants begin their journey. china may be booming, but there are a growing number of poor workers at the bottom who believe they will have a better shot in america. just below the manhattan bridge, theres a row of cramped store fronts. employment agencies where newly arrived workers seek their first job. men like vincent chou. ive spent a lot of time in new york chinatown and ive never noticed all these employment agencies until t...

Over and over again probably since i was 15 is wait tables, bus boy. i always lived on tips. you knew if you worked hard and you gave great service you have an excellent chance to earn extra money. thats fundamental capitalism especially when you break into the work force. for 1800 employees who belong to the union scare hospitality group, they are going to live a life without the ability to get tips. >> danny myer will start removing tipping from restaurants. >> good. >> they serve 50,000 meals...

Me and my sister i never got along, except driving her crazy, that was the only time we got along. >> i dont think any of us got along with our siblings when we were growing up, now we get along. yeah, she started working at 11, dishes in a cafe, 16 at walmart, ten, 12 years old, picking strawberries. i love this one, i was paid to be a bus boy/dishwasher at my fathers cafe since i was 12, and have been employed ever since. and lou says, washing dishes at a local restaurant, 12 years, a baby-sit...

>> well, first of all, the baby-sitter still wont come to your house. >> i threw out a needy one, bob. >> i was a dishwasher, they wouldnt make me a bus boy, a dishwasher, i mowed lauren eed that, about 11 or 12. i worked on the garbage truck, which probably makes sense, age 14, one job i had i really enjoyed when i was in college, i worked for the funeral parlor. >> that is creepy. >> closed the caskets all by myself. >> that was five stories worth of caskets. >> but you told me that, eight yea...

Me and my sister i never got along, except driving her crazy, that was the only time we got along. >> i dont think any of us got along with our siblings when we were growing up, now we get along. yeah, she started working at 11, dishes in a cafe, 16 at walmart, ten, 12 years old, picking strawberries. i love this one, i was paid to be a bus boy/dishwasher at my fathers cafe since i was 12, and have been employed ever since. and lou says, washing dishes at a local restaurant, 12 years, a baby-sit...

>> all right. >> he hasnt stopped laughing. >> listen, nothing funny about this. let me get serious here. the way stuff travels around information this day and age around the internet, it becomes truth and people buy into it whether its a newspaper or somebody else. thats what scares me. theres a lot of stuff out there about me thats true, but for a lot of people get really bad stuff and they take this truth, they figure this one story. >> like death panels. >> death panels. damn right. youre al...

And he possible i could see him knows now. >> right in front. >> twept feet away. nand facing his boots to my deck. nnancy lanza visit my place. one of thim show brought the boys along. >> we are more about. in the interview hoe gave me, he did it written and not on camera because he is getting tired. he wanted to make a couple ofs d. i see a lot of bads and she was not one of them. her son ryan adams older brother was a bus boy