The Job Corps Saga is the most mysterious saga of Boglim History, as little has been documented of Josh's brief time at Boxelder Job Corps, and the little that has survived isn't of the best quality. This saga spans the entirety of Josh's time at Job Corps and the aftermath that proceeded it, from July 20, 2011 to June/July of 2012. The Job Corps saga is an important chapter in KingCobraJFS lore because it was a period marked by significant personal growth and turmoil for Josh. It was his first real steps into independence, living away from home to learn a trade and move toward a better future. It also brought key events that shaped his personal life, such as his first real-life relationship with Stephanie and his dealings with bullying, paranormal experiences, and eventual expulsion due to drug use.

• Josh Saunders: The BOY takes center stage as the intrepid sexy goth badboy with Asperger's, out on his own to learn a skilled trade and become something better. Will he succeed?
• Clint Saunders: Deliverer and savior of Josh during this saga.
• Stephanie: Josh's first real-life girlfriend. They met at Job Corps, and she would become more important in the sagas to follow.

• Leo: A job corps friend and fellow guitar buddy.
• Brittany: Josh's first crush at Job Corps, also known as “Miss Blue Diamonds”.

After much persuasion by his father, Josh begrudgingly comes to the conclusion that learning a skilled trade of some form would be beneficial to him until his music career takes off. In July of 2011, Josh would be shipped off to the Job Corps by his homedad, ready and surprisingly willing to face wageslavery head-on.

It's worth noting that Clint told Josh that if he was kicked out of Job Corps, he would put him in a group home with other people with autism.

On July 20, 2011, Josh's dad Clint posted on Facebook saying that he'd driven Josh 230 miles from Casper to Boxelder Job Corps Centre in Nemo, South Dakota. Josh had apprehensions about going to Job Corps, fearing it would be a repeat of high school with relentless bullying from his peers. After much assurance from his Job Corps advisor that there was a zero-tolerance bullying policy, Josh would come round to the idea, and would eventually agree to go. This would turn out to be a lie, and Josh would face even more bullying after suffering nearly a lifetime of it already.
Treating it similar to prison, Josh was quick to establish his sexy goth badboy personality by showing up at the Corps pool hall and shredding on his guitar, possibly to woo any ladies nearby. It is unknown how much notoriety this really garnered him, but it's safe to assume he left a lasting impression of some form on the people in the pool hall. Josh would acquire a new friend, Leo, who would play guitar with him in the music room. Continuing to show off his musical talents, he would take part in a talent show night, covering Linkin Park's “In The End”, and the next night an early rendition of “Dark Side of Love” from his upcoming fourth album The Darkness. This would cause him to be disqualified, as the lyrics were considered too dark for the talent night. Undeterred, Josh would open the third night up with another handcrafted single, “Blue Diamonds in The Mist”. This was a song he wrote for a girl he had a crush on by the name of Brittany, and would eventually make its way into The Darkness as well.

Josh was of the impression that the Job Corps was haunted.
According to Josh, numerous paranormal events occurred during his stay, including:

• A sighting of what could have been a ghost(or just, you know, a woman) walking past the dorm room
• The room's temperature suddenly plummeting
• An alarm clock ominously making static sounds
• One of Josh's dorm-mates becoming possessed and becoming violent after experimenting with binaural beats
• Items in the storage room falling over coincidentally right when Josh was in there, cleaning up as punishment
• Josh claims to have seen a “tall, hooded, menacing figure” after trash-talking the aforementioned paranormal events in the storage room

It was with these experiences that Josh would surmise that the spirits haunting the Job Corps fed off the drama and negative energy that the students gave off.

In a harrowing foreshadowing of further health problems to come, Josh would develop a cyst on his tailbone. It would first be drained by a nurse at Job Corps, but would remain, and burst during a field trip to the beach, where Josh would be concerned that the numerous hot girls around would be able to smell it. Josh would eventually take medical leave to get the cyst properly removed via surgery, leaving him with a permanent scar above his ass crack.

As part of Job Corps, Josh would have to choose three professions to dabble in, before choosing one to receive training in. Out of the three professions Josh chose(Those being Bricklaying, Welding and Painting), Josh found his fellow bricklayers too cocky and the work too hard, welding too frustrating, and eventually settling on painting before finding it too difficult as well. Apparently Josh had an issue with work ethic, often getting in trouble for collecting cool sticks he could use to make wands instead of actually doing his training. The breaking point would occur when josh cut himself while painting a roof, and after receiving medical attention would be told that he could not continue with painting as a chosen profession. Eventually after a brief amount of time training as a computer technician, Josh would be shunted into training as office administration, which he found vaguely enjoyable.

The equivalent of Prefects at Job Corps were Jacket Leaders - Older-aged students that would assist staff in enforcing the rules. According to Josh, if you broke the rules, you would be written up by your Jacket Leader, and forced to go to Student Court.
Josh would be very aware of this process very quickly. After huffing cologne and going to a student dance, Josh would use the adrenaline to steal the bike of the pool hall head, Mr. Slater, and with the weather being permittable, took it for a joy ride. As a result, he would be chased down by a Jacket Leader, who would cut himself pulling Josh off the bike. Josh would be forced to clean the storage room above the gymnasium, where he would encounter more paranormal events as listed above.

While there was a zero-tolerance policy for bullying at Job Corps, it didn't come across as very effective. On one occasion Josh was forced to dream walk into another person's dreams while asleep and give them nightmares. On another occasion, Josh would be choked out by an angry student. In fairness, Josh probably shouldn't have said “Why don't you pick on someone your own size?” and then turn away to have a cigarette break.
During this time, Josh would also be mildly sexually harassed by a fellow male student, who smacked a boner Josh got after seeing an attractive woman at paintball. The same male student asked to see his Cobra Jr. on one occasion.
Josh would also become the butt of a joke when it became known that he fucked a grapefruit in the night and attempted to hide the evidence. He claims he was able to laugh this one off eventually, but it's difficult to determine when - or if - this was the case.

While Josh did develop a crush on Brittany, a pale-skinned, blue-eyed girl, he would eventually meet and become closely intimate with Stephanie, a girl he would have a storied future with later on. On April 16, 2012, via Facebook he would officially announce that they were together, and on may 6th, he and Stephanie would have sex in a bathroom, managing to last a robust and substantial 2 minutes and 46 seconds. Josh claims to have recorded the deed on his iPod Shuffle, but apparently lost the footage. While Josh would claim that the two would have sex numerous times on campus, this has never been confirmed outside of Josh's own words. Josh and Stephanie would attend prom together, and after Josh left Job Corps, she would express wanting to drop out of Job Corps to stay with him, but Josh would encourage her to stay on to finish her training.

This saga would give Josh another defining character trait central to the Boglim identity: Being a stoner. Josh would experiment with various ways of getting high, including paint fumes, crushed up morphine pills while snorted, and allegedly jailhouse acid out of toothpaste and an orange, which he would smoke and eat. His main vice he would pick up, however, would be cannabis. At some point, Josh would be caught partaking in the devil's lettuce by a Jacket Leader; The same one that would intervene in a suicide attempt where Josh would attempt to strangle himself with a broken guitar string. Josh claims that this Jacket Leader would partake in smoking weed and bragging about it as well, although this claim has never been substantiated.

Following this bust, Job Corps would escort Josh off campus in summer of 2012 for smoking marijuana and send him to a homeless shelter, where Josh would spend 4 days before catching a bus back to Casper. Clint would be enraged with Job Corps, as they had not told him of the events that had transpired, and also at Josh for taking up cannabis as a pastime. He would go on to ask Josh if he was a druggie, now that he smoked weed. Back home in Casper, Clint would give Josh 2 weeks to find a job, or he'd risk another Punishment Haircut, alongside more home rules intending to keep Josh on the straight and narrow. This would mark the end of the Job Corps Saga, and segue into the Wendy's Saga.

The Job Corps saga is remembered for its intense ups and downs and the important groundwork it laid for Josh’s never-ending quest for independence and self-improvement. It also shows early signs of Josh's natural ability to ruin his own potential by sheer ineptitude, a trait that would repeat itself many times in the years to come. At this stage, Josh would be at a record low - No income, no freedom, no independence, and the shadow of Clint towering over him. But a true low makes the next high even higher, as Josh would soon be bound for brighter futures once more.

• The Job Corps Saga has no videos associated with it, as Josh would only send updates over Facebook.
• Josh did not break his phone once during this saga. Good job, BOY!
• As much of Josh's time at Job Corps cannot be corroborated, it is difficult to discern how much of his stories are true.

Part 3 of the Bitesize Cobra Vids series. Part 3: Tales from Job Corps