A single mother of four from east Houston, Limas had recently lost two jobs after tearing her meniscus, an injury that made standing and working on her feet impossible. “I was at a crossroads,” she said. “I didn’t know what came next.”
At the end of the ceremony, Limas picked up a flyer promoting HCC’s Public Safety Telecommunicator Program. “I had never thought of becoming a dispatcher,” she said. “But reading that flyer, I realized — I could do this.”
Still, the idea of going back to school was daunting. “I questioned myself,” she said. “It felt like maybe it was too late or too complicated. But I couldn’t shake the feeling that this was an opportunity I needed to try.”…