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FAST MONEY VS. A REAL JOB

5/30/2014

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Last week I met a young man, 15 years old, who told me that it was better to make "fast money" than to work at a regular job. He decided that it was better to make money this way because you could buy things like a house and a fast car without having to pay taxes or show anything on paper. I didn't say anything.
The talking piece came around to this young man's Counselor and he said, "Yes, you may have those things for about five years. Then you will lose them because
you have no paper. And then you get new paper in the form of a sentence." I found that no more words were necessary.

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    Daniel Foxvog

    Daniel Foxvog,  MA, VCRJ Executive Director, completed
    his Bachelor’s degree in Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies at Goshen College and earned an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University.  

    He has worked as a conflict transformation trainer in Virginia, Illinois, and California, training students, teachers, pastors, police officers, and community volunteers.  He previously served as a case manager for a restorative justice program in Fresno, CA, where he worked with hundreds of juvenile offenders and their families, trained and supervised volunteer mediators, and facilitated meetings between victims and offenders. 

    ​He has also worked as a church consultant, a case manager for youth with mental illness, and a group dialogue facilitator



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