Jessyca Mercado's Photography Career

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Her life's filled with all sorts of action. All the lights and cameras., but not pointing to her. The cameras she points at her clients as the photographer. She gives people memories that will last a lifetime as well as spending time with her kids, and taking on a second job as a special Ed monitor.

Your job is not just a job, It is a part of your life that decides your future, and who you become.

Jessyca Mercado works as a special Ed monitor that includes making sure the special needs kids are safe, strapping kids into the bus safely, and knowing where all the medical equipment is located.She chose the special Ed career, she did this because she has a strong passion for helping children. She is also a photographer where she takes pictures, poses and makes people smile ,and chose her photography career because she loves to capture memories that people will cherish for a lifetime. Jessyca’s first love for photography started in her teenage years when she got a job working as the photographer at sears but saw a better future working at a home studio with a friend, and that treated their customers respectfully which sears did not do.
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Another reason she cherishes her job is getting to see the progress of each of the children over a school year. Working the two jobs that Jessyca works as a photographer and a special Ed monitor, she is very fortunate to have two jobs that work around her life, but best of all her kids’ life, as her job schedules are scheduled around her kids soccer games or karate, which she couldn’t be more grateful to have, as she enjoys more than anything to be around her kids as much as

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