A Career Profile

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, they were ecstatic.
Jennifer: Did you graduate from high school?
Jon: Yes.
Jennifer: Did you go to college?
Jon: Yes, I went to Trinity.
Jennifer: What was primary reason for your decision to go to college?
Jon: I didn’t want to be a laborer all of my life. I wanted an education and I found out that the more you learn, the more you found out that you didn’t know.
Jennifer: So your parents prodding did not play a role in your choice to attain a college education?
Jon: Well, of course they had ingrained that in the back of my mind so much that the thought of not getting a college education was just psychologically repulsive. They
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made it very clear to me that they would have been extremely disappointed if I had chosen not to go to college. I would have been disappointed in myself as well.
Jennifer: Did your parents pay for your education?
Jon: They paid for a lot of it. What they didn’t pay for grants and loans covered.
Jennifer: What did you major in college?
Jon: In journalism, broadcasting, and film production.
Jennifer: Did you ever change majors?
Jon: No.
Jennifer: I find it odd that with your love of chemistry in high school that you would major in journalism. Why didn’t you major in chemistry, or biology?
Jon: There were not any journalism classes in high school but I enjoyed my English classes. Journalism just came easy to me.
Jennifer: Did you not do well in you science courses in college?
Jon: No, I did quite well in organic and inorganic chemistry, I just didn’t want to pursue what I saw as a life in a laboratory.
Jennifer: Did you go to graduate school?
Jon: I have gone to secondary school for Microsoft certification. I didn’t go to graduate school however, because I had a family.
Jennifer: What was your first job after college, and did it involve using your ba...