A UPS driver’s excitement over his first paycheck could hardly be contained.
Yoel Diaz said he was so excited because he could barely fill his refrigerator before immigrating from Cuba.
Now, he lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and his fridge is full.
"This is my first hourly paycheck that I feel every hour counted," he said in the video. "That every hour of work has importance in my life and that I know I can work hard for something. I can't compare that emotion with anything. Because I never had that in my country."
He stated, he's "grateful" to be in the United States.
"When you have this for the first time, your head explodes and say, 'Wow, it's beautiful,'" he said.
Before he came to the U.S. in 2021, Diaz was a computer science teacher in Cuba, earning $12 a month. He lamented how far ahead the U.S. was in the field.
Diaz met his wife, who is Cuban American, when they were young and still living in Cuba. She'd often tell him about the realities outside of Cuba, which she believed was held back by its Communist party. They eventually married and were faced with a decision: stay or go to the U.S.
Diaz said he told his wife: "We want a future, we want a family... wherever you go I go."
He came to America on a K-1 visa, and when he received his work permit, he applied for a job at UPS.
"I never had this much money in my hands from my effort, from my sweat, and it hurts that millions in my country and other countries can't have that," he said. "And being here, you can get it in a dignified manner."
No nostalgia for Granit Xhaka today.
Yes, he looked half decent for large periods this season. But, only because he had better players around him.
Leadership is not making errors in big games, picking up red cards and falling out with fans.
Football fans are fickle.
@finneyzair@MikeOfTheSouthW@AmyNicks_@HenryRiley1@LBC@LBCNews Well done, Gary - within the bullshittery of making your point, you disclosed that you missed a hospital appointment that someone else could of had. That makes you a twat, I hope you bought an alarm clock afterwards.
£50m fee and 160k p/w to bench warm… he made his first PL start this late in the season? 🤣 how can any team compete with the City’s ability to just pay rotation players crazy wages to keep them happy?
I love it, Arsenal pushed the best team in the country (on financial steroids) in a title race right until the end, and everyone’s piling on and taking the piss on Twitter 🥰
We were watching blokes like Bellerin and finishing 8th two years ago.
Now we’re back to CL nights 🙌🏻💰
Actress Adjoa Andoh speaks of the “terribly white balcony” at the palace. They are a white family, for goodness sake! Does she think individual families should be subject to diversity quotas? This race-baiting is hugely divisive. Stop it.
Pep Guardiola: “This is the perspective for Arsenal, maybe the mood there now is a little bit down, after seven years, they won the most important title in the season for the club, qualify for next season’s Champions League. It’s the most important title.”
I don’t want to seem ungrateful because my team is top of the league - which is very unfamiliar for me - but I can’t deal with another game with Rob Holding at the back.