Romeo Lingad, a right of way engineer for Orange county, TX, poses next to a city of Vidor work truck Nov. 13, 2013 in Vidor, TX. Lingad came to the United States from the Phillipines in 1986 and had his first job with the city of Vidor, which he had for 11 years and credits for making it possible to be in his current occupation.<br />
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CREDIT: Eric Kayne for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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