Bay Area Residents Work Multiple Jobs in Order to Pay the Bills

To make it in the Bay, many people have to work two or three jobs and for one South Bay family, it’s the only way to pay the bills.

By day, Angel Flores works at a packaging warehouse. By night, he’s a janitor at a San Jose high school.

Flores moved to the Bay Area from Acapulco, Mexico, where he was a tour guide. Violence dried up the tourism industry there, so moved his family to San Jose.

Today, he’s barely home, often working a third job as a roofer on weekends.

He says like all Mexicans, he gives his work 100% every day.

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