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• Learning About Work
• Sources of Information

“The news.”

• Education
• Perceptions of high school

“High school definitely prepared me for college and all the coursework that came with it. I also learned how to analyze data and manage finances in high school. This really helps me in my job today because I analyze data every day. [Where did you learn how to analyze data and manage finances? Were there specific courses on these topics?] Yes, during our senior year there was an elective offered that taught us how to budget, save, invest, and analyze financials.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“Traveling to discover natural things for my skincare line, owning my own home, settling down, having kids, kids leaving home, being happy where I’ve been in life, traveling the world and being successful and conquering all my dreams.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“I started mine off as working business, doing what I am doing right now. Second, I’ve got looking for schools, basically the right school for me. Third, I have to train and after that establish my position. The next step is to stay focused because I know it is definitely hard to stay focused, whatever college you’re at. After that is trying to make it into whatever I can because I play both football and baseball. After that will be trying to be Hall of Famer because I’m not just trying to be in the game just to be there and say I played on the team. After that it is just being able to have that status and go back and be a coach or something and be able to give back to the kids.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Discrimination and Bias

“I feel maybe a minority in general in probably some places it could be hard because they try to trap you in there. They usually just target minorities or people with no place to go.”

• Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“Career is different. That is something you went to school for. However, a job is something to make money at.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“[What will be important to me at age 70 is] my health.”

• Perceptions of the term 'job'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“I put long days, working to make another person’s pocket bigger, a slave, and corporation.” [Mod: Tell me about that working to make another person’s pocket bigger.] “So, I’m a big believer, and this is because I got some business owners in my family, that you are to open a business and try to generate revenue to change your community and stuff like that. So I’m a big believer in creating your own business…going that type of route. Being an entrepreneur, yeah.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“So right now I do small jobs with YV-Tech, record plays, advertisements. I fly drones, and I take aerial footage…I’m earning more certificates so I…[I’m headed to] like multimedia production or like movie production. Earning certificates so it looks good, getting my name out to various employers and working with them. Getting definitely good grades, and then applying for college and turning in my certificates and getting the student aid so I’m able to pay for college. Then go to college and get my AA for the two years, and then for the next four years studying what I want to go into. And then hopefully, while I’m in college I want to go to like a small video production place, maybe like the news. That, I know that’s pretty popular for someone coming right out or in college…getting that, I guess, under my name. And then continue working, and then going up in the video production, I guess, working at better jobs, meeting more people. Because I guess the more people you have the more your name gets spread. The more…you know. Then continue to advance in your skills and, I guess, get more people knowing you, more companies. And then maybe starting like a small, private business, so like photography for like weddings or companies, making advertisements for them. And then, hopefully, working in the movie industry, so it would be like maybe small movies at first, and then going up to Marvel, I don’t know…Being behind the camera and then editing the scenes and audio, both video and audio. Then continuing to further educate yourself, and then maybe start a video business of yourself, so…”

• Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“It is the exact opposite. Where job is the more relaxed setting while work is the harder one mostly. Because I work with my dad; it is not really a job. I work with him, and he does landscape contracting where we have to do things like shovel dirt for several hours, remake lawns, pools, things like that. So, it is very labor intensive. In California weather it is very intense.”