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November 13, 2009
Christelle Xu
California budget cuts deprive students and staff of future opportunities.
Taryn Wright, an intern for counselor Britny Stewart is considering her options as a high school counselor. Wright’s career choice stems from her own experience in high school.
“I just had a really good school counselor. She really pushed me to my full potential, and I wanted to do that for someone else,” Wright said.
However, job openings for school counselors are limited. These receding opportunities parallel challenges faced by seniors.
Although he originally intended to go to college and major in Criminal Justice, senior Eduardo Vasquez has chosen to go into the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) and eventually join the Air Force.
“The reason why it would kind of hard to go to college is I’ll get a degree, and since the economy is so bad, they’re not hiring a lot of probation officers, I won’t have a career,” Vasquez said.
By changing his career plans, Vasquez hopes to make a more profitable future for himself.
Like Vasquez, Wright continues to pursue other ways to further herself in her career.
“I’m thinking about nonprofit organizations, just getting some volunteer work to make myself more marketable,” Wright said.
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