It started out as just a summer job, in 1998, at the Toys ‘R’ Us where her sister worked in Chula Vista, California. Giovanna De la Rosa, born and raised just across the border in Tijuana, Mexico, had just turned 18. She ended up liking the job so much, she worked there for the next 20 years.
“It was like a family, a really fun place to work at and the company took care of us as employees,” De la Rosa says today. “I had really good pay for it being 1998, holidays off, flexible scheduling. I put myself through college while I was working there.”
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