Mr. Galvan is a P.E. teacher here at RDPS and he teaches high school and also middle school, and for his first job Mr. Galvan said, “My first ever job was when I played in a banda and I started playing when I was 13-years-old, and I actually got paid for doing that.”
At only the age of 13, Mr. Galvan was already getting paid for what he did.
“I did banda for seven years, and it was fun because I was young and I was also getting my own money so I didn’t have to ask my parents for money to buy clothes and other things,” Mr. Galvan said.
Mr. Galvan enjoyed making money because he could buy whatever he wanted when he wanted and also did not have to ask his parents for money.
“I really enjoyed playing in the banda because I played with all my childhood friends so we were all neighbors so it was cool. I like to play with my friends because I had time to be with them,” Mr. Galvan said.
Mr. Barnett is a teacher here at RDPS who teaches middle school English and 9th graders too, and for his first job Mr. Barnett said, “My first job was working in food service at my college in North Carolina.”
Mr. Barnett helped make food and also helped in the kitchen to do more things.
“I worked in food service for about four years so I worked from the year 2008 to 2013. For the most part I really did not like my manager that I worked with, but the other student employes that I worked with I liked,” Mr. Barnett said.
Mr. Barnett did enjoy working in that job but it seems like there were some times that he did not like some people in his food services job.
Ms. Zelaya is a middle school teacher here at RDPS and for her first job Ms. Zelaya said, “My very first job was technically working at a makeup counter but that was just seasonal. I considered my first office job as being a teacher assistant at elementary school here in Carson.”
Ms. Zelaya had two jobs but she said that the makeup counter was just seasonal so basically Ms. Zelaya’s first job was working at an elementary school here in Carson.
“I really did like both jobs but the makeup counter. I was not really a salesperson or a people person so I didn’t really like that one quite a lot but being a teacher’s assistant I really liked because I got to be a kinder yard supervisor so it was really fun to be able to be with the little kindergarteners out there in the school yard so that was fun,” Ms. Zelaya said.
She had both jobs but after she told us that she was not really a salesperson or a people person, it looked like she loved being a yard assistant at the elementary school more.
“I did the yard assistant job for six years; I did that the whole time I was I was studying for my bachelor’s degree,” Ms. Zelaya said.
Mr. Blazer is a teacher here at RDPS and he teaches math for high school and eighth graders, and for his first job Mr. Blazer said, “My first job was working at a grocery store, but working at a grocery store allowed me to do a lot of fast adding and subtracting.”
When Blazer worked at the grocery store he said that it allowed him to do a lot of math.
“I worked at a grocery store for about nine years,” Mr. Blazer said.
Ms. Bacus is a teacher at RDPS and she teaches high school and also middle school, and for her first job Ms. Bacus said, “So for my first job I was actually a tutor at a reading center in Manhattan Beach. Yes I did like that job.”
Ms. Bacus did like to work as a tutor and at a reading center.
“I worked with a lot of newcomers, that means like little kids that really did not know how to speak and read English, and so their parents took them and enrolled them in this reading center in Manhattan Beach and I worked with them,” Ms. Bacus said.
She helped little kids who did not know how to read or speak English.