For the second year at SJHS, the counseling center has been hosting a series of career presentations during Quest Time called Windows to the Workplace. All interested students are encouraged to attend and learn about careers that interest them.
Mrs. Droz, the ninth grade counselor at SJHS, said Windows to the Workplace is a place where they “invite parents and community members to come and talk about their careers. They talk about how to get into their career, how much school and training they had to do, what kinds of things they do each day, how much money they can make, and how many jobs are available in their career right now.”
Several Windows to the Workplace have already been held this year. One of them was a firefighter. Kaden Haynie, an eighth grade student at SJHS, learned, “Firefighters actually do rescue cats from trees.”
According to Chase Ewell, a ninth grader at SJHS, the Windows to the Workplace experience gave him a good perspective on what it would be like in that occupation. He also said it was interesting to hear about people’s careers.
Career presentations that have occurred this year include an entrepreneur, a pet groomer, a firefighter, a mechanical engineer, a pharmacy technician, a BYU university professor, a wildlife biologist, an archaeologist and an orthodontist.
To attend a Windows to the Workplace, a student cannot have any deficient grades, and has to come to room K307 to see the presentation.