It was economics for two new city department heads that steered them onto the path of working for the City of Lamesa. Ernest Ogeda spent his first year after graduating from Lamesa High School in 1990 doing hair styles, following his mother’s footsteps toward the job. But a combination of factors forced him to take a new look at his future. “I was a hair dresser for about a year. I had a car payment and there were a lot of hair dressers in town, and I told my mom when this (city job) came up: ‘I’m out of here,’” Ogeda said. When ...