Zackeria’s story: Leading CareerForce Partner helps him find hope and the path to a brighter future
April 23, 2026
“At the age of 29 I reached a point of complete hopelessness in my life. I was caught in a seemingly endless cycle of directionless chaos. I would find someone to move in with, lie to an employer about having graduated high school so I could get a halfway decent job, tread water for maybe 2 years with no progress towards any goals because I didn’t have any, then get overtaken by my alcoholism and drown in the bottom of a bottle until I got kicked out and had to move back into my mom’s house with nothing but burnt bridges and hurt friends to show for it. I was on trip number 5 back to my parent’s basement after being kicked out of my fiancées house and at this point even staying afloat sounded like too much work for me. I couldn’t keep living like that, and I didn’t know how to live any other way which left me with only one reasonable sounding option for what to do next.