John Interview

For the purpose of this paper, I will give my interviewee the alias of John. As I am open to an academic counseling position at either a two-year or four-year institution, I asked John, who is a current fifth-year mathematic student at UCLA, if he could assist me with his paper. John and I met at a local coffee shop near UCLA where he took a break from his studies to be interviewed. John is single, 22-year old, heterosexual Latino male who is studying mathematics, as previously mentioned. When I asked him about his short-term and long-term goals, he mentioned to me that he wants to finish this quarter strong but ultimately, he wants to start his own business in advertisement marketing. This long-term goal was the theme of our twenty-five-minute conversation. John’s drive for business comes from watching his father jump from different pyramid-scheme businesses. He saw how his dad never gave up on his dreams and was always finding ways to be creative. John mentioned his father always supported him whenever he wanted to pick up new hobbies. For example, around the age of 10 John became interested in computers, and his dad purchased him his first laptop so John can continue …show more content…
Both his parents came to the US without any papers from Honduras and last year became permanent residents. He grew up in a predominantly Latino, low-income community and is the youngest individual from a family of four. Even though they grew up in this community, John states his family was more on the lower, middle class tier because aside from doing the pyramid-scheme business, his dad works at office setting in charge of import/exports. He went to tell me once again that seeing his father’s energy at working, what would be two jobs, excites him and wants to be that energetic when he is that old. We then ahead to discuss his educational journey and how he got into studying