Homeless in the South Bay: In their own words- Colleen
Photo by Ed Pilolla Colleen has been sleeping in a safe spot. But because people have mentioned they know where she is sleeping, it has become unsafe. So she doesn’t like to go there anymore. Living without a home is very dangerous, especially for a woman. She has bandages on her knee and a bump on her head. She was with her first husband for 14 years. She had her first two children five years apart and got her business degree during that time and started a sole proprietorship. Then they split up, and it was devastating, personally and financially. They took her children away. It was so hurtful. She went into nursing. People helped her prep in order to pass the test to get into nursing. She was doing in-home house services, but then they said you can’t because of what’s on her record. She had to take this horrible job. It was a sales position selling cars. She was horrible on the sales floor. They taught her how to hook people into deals. They know they will have a re-possession with certain customers, and she just could not do that part of the job. They would have had to send a closer in with no compassion, and she just said she couldn’t do it. She bought a small cosmetic company…
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