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I was born in Pasadena, California but raised in Oxnard most of my life. I use to live in north Hollywood for a few years where some of my family lived at, I also lived in Pasadena and after my parents got bored of those places we moved into Oxnard. I’ve been living here in Oxnard for about fourteen years now. I grew up wanting to be a fire fighter, like most little kids do. I think it was just all the lights on the fire trucks and the uniforms that the fire fighters wore that caught my attention. Another thing I wanted to be was a cop when I was small; I actually took it into consideration about two years ago when I was almost recruited into the marines. I had talked to a few marines about joining because I thought that I might want to be Military Police. I took the their assessment test and all but once they filled me in on all the info, I wasn’t all that interested like I thought I was going to be. Although I thought that I wanted to be a fire fighter or cop when I was growing up, I found myself to be interested in taking my broken toys and fixing them. Sometimes I would take the part of one toy and put it on a different toy just so it would work. I think this is why I took interest in cars. As I started learning more about cars I realized that working on cars might be a better career choice for me.


I am currently working on getting my AS at OC, and then I plan to transfer to a four year school. To do this I am just taking all my general classes, with some auto classes on the side. When I took an auto class this past semester I really enjoyed the fact that it’s not just books but it’s a hand on job as well. Plus we had the benefit of taking our own cars into the school shop to work on them if they had a problem, which worked out in the sense that we were learning and fixing our own problems. I even like working on my own car at home and friends cars when we find a problem. I also have a part time job at a fast food joint in order to get the cash I need for school as well as things that I might need as a mechanic.

In the next two years I hope to finish my general classes and transfer to a university where I can learn more about cars and major in mechanics. I’m not sure exactly what school yet, but I will look more into it in this next year. After I finish school I’ll try to get a job as a mechanic fixing cars in a dealership such as Nissan, Toyota, Honda, ect. Later, after a couple years of experience in school and hands on working in a dealership, I hope to be able to open up my own shop.