Angel Juarez
Born in July, 1986 in El Paso, Texas.
It seems like I’ve worked at every senior center and most of the rec centers. My bosses, when I came in, they told me, you got to be careful how you speak to them. You got to be careful what you say because they, they're adults. I mean, you're talking about we have, the gentleman is 102 years old. It's an age gap. And imagine me going to discipline him or going to tell him, hey, you can't be doing that stuff. He's going to look at me and really tell me. It's like, who are you to tell me? I mean. And it's supposed to be the way, the other way around. They're supposed to be disciplining me. They're supposed to be showing me right from wrong. Respect your elders and all that. And yet I'm coming into a position to where I have to discipline 100 seniors. And yeah, I've had instances where they say ah pues es que he’s just a kid. I'm not a kid. I mean, I'm an adult. And yet they look at me like, oh, he doesn't know what he's doing.
I mean, I've been doing it for about, yeah sixteen years now. Sixteen, seventeen. It's like being in a high school. The seniors are students, and then I'm the faculty. And the best way to describe it is, everything you ever did in high school, everything. It happens here. Everything. You got your little group of popular ones. You got your jock. You got the the heartbreaker.
So it's crazy, like, I mean, and you never think of that. So, I used to think, ah pues, you grow out of your bad ways, you grow out of that, how do I say, the bad habits. Or, you're older, you're more mature. Nah. Doesn't change. Doesn't change. If you were a certain way in high school at a certain age, you're always going to be that way. 40, 50 years from now, that's the way you're going to be.