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Jake's time in military school further traumatized him, as his parents refused to visit him and all but forgot about him until graduation. His letters home ("[[The Daria Diaries]]") show him becoming increasingly broken and bitter from his time there, and writing vicious screeds against his father; he forgives his mother though, viewing her as having no choice but to go along with "Mad Dog's" ideas. He was in the Color Guard during this time, and also picked on by other cadets. He had a friend called Randy (sent to the Ridge for putting his fist through a wall) who, after four years, went AWOL; Jake wanted to go with him but didn't to deny his father "the satisfaction" of him flunking out.
Afterwards, Jake enrolled at [[Middleton College]] thanks to funding from his family, thus not being shipped off to the [[Vietnam War]] ("[[The Daria Diaries]]"); the war had wound down after he'd left college ("[[My Night at Daria's]]"). At college, he joined the hippie counter-culture and met his future wife [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] there; the counter-culture was a calming influence to the seething cauldron of repressed rage and hatred for the world around him and for his father, and he became an extremely cheery optimist with a firm belief in the counter-culture's ideals and rejecting the modern world.
The two moved into a commune after their graduation in 1972, and in 1975 they got married. ("Diaries" and "[[The Daria Database]]") His father died shortly thereafter.
Like many hippies, Jake and Helen rejected the 1960s counter-culture by the end of the 1970s and began working in the corporate world. Jake in particular began work in the advertisement industry, with little success. Adding to his strife was the fact that Jake worked for a rather controlling boss who treated Jake poorly (whom he referred to as a "mini-Mussolini" in the episode "[[Boxing Daria]]") and further verbally abused Jake on a regular basis.
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He often freaks out over money issues or property values falling ("[[The Teachings of Don Jake]]", "[[A Tree Grows in Lawndale]]"), sometimes on a random and nonsensical whim.
He always wanted to work on his cooking, and ever since a brief turndown in work in "[[Arts 'n
In several episodes, Jake has expressed frustration that he become a corporate man and that he gave up on his ideals, and views himself as ''trapped'' in his current life ("a boring little house in a bland little town") and resenting middle-age; he generally keeps this hidden, with it only coming out [[The Teachings of Don Jake|due to "glitterberries"]] or [[That Was Then, This Is Dumb|visits from old hippie friends]]. However, in "[[Quinn the Brain]]", when trying to give advice he started to randomly yell "It's not too late to start over, Daria, it's not too late! You're still a young man! You don't have to live with your mistakes! Get out while you can!" before suddenly recovering.
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