u/TheDouchebagOfCA

(Just a vent)

In Los Angeles, I've done the TABE test 8 fucking times and every single one has had the same exact score. How?! How TF does this shit happen?! I'm trying so hard to get the fuck out of this center, out of this cracked out and scummy city and out of this scummy ass state so I can do advanced training in a new state. I'm done with it. I'm done with this whole damn cycle.

It also doesn't help that I've been in my trade for the past 5 months and I haven't had adequate time to study. The trade is almost done, and once it finishes, I'm gonna be subject to this pointless cycle of failing TABE after TABE again and again. I personally feel the staff are intentionally doing this to make me feel like a complete idiot. I took a TABE once a few months back, and for a bit, I had actually celebrated because I had a 5, when I've been getting 4s this whole time, but then I find out a mistake was made and I got the wrong test, and my score means nothing. That is NOT a mistake. A mistake is stepping on someone's shoe by accident. This honestly feels intentional.

I'm done with this whole cycle, and I'm just...I'm done! I wanna end my time here at the center, in the city, and maybe...my own future. Maybe I should just give up on my future and my life.

I try so hard and it feels like nothing actually improves. I'm tempted to just resign and quit and end everything if I take one more TABE test and fail. I have accommodations and it's still not enough.

I guess I could ask to see if the center will let me waive it, but even then that feels like it won't work.

(Thanks for listening to me vent)

Hello everyone. I wanted to ask something. So, I've been at the Los Angeles Job Corps center since October of 2025. I've been in my trade,(Culinary), since January of this year. The trade will soon end in June, and part of the ending assignments I've done, was completing my ServSafe Manager's Exam. If I get my certificate, my center will send me to one of 3 centers for advanced training. Treasure Island, in San Francisco, Exeter, in Exeter, Rhode Island, and Penobscot, in Bangor, Maine.

I wanna pursue advanced training in baking, but I'm a little skeptic of some things. I've been thinking about wanting to go to Treasure Island for awhile, because I know The Bay is in the same state as LA, so at least I'd know it a little, but I've also heard some bad things about the center and island. "The island is radioactive", "The staff are mean", "The staff steal things from students", and apparently there's big rats that live on the island and in the center too.

So, tell me. Anyone at Treasure Island, Exeter, or Penobscot, tell me. What is it like, and should i go there? Thanks for listening.