Jobs working with young people

Interview with a City Manager for Youth Programs

What do you do for a living? I am a program manager for the Department of Youth and Community Development for a major U.S City. How would you describe what you do? That means that we use tax-levied money to support programs throughout the city.  Those programs range from things like the YMCA, initiatives to [...]

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Interview with an Associate Professor

What do you do for a living? I am an associate professor of educational leadership at a public university. How would you describe what you do? I teach educators who would like to become school principals and school superintendents. What does your work entail? It involves everything from recruiting, screening, admitting, and teaching aspiring school [...]

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Interview with a Sign Language Interpreter

What do you do for a living? I am the state judicial sign language interpreter interpreting in state and local courts. How would you describe what you do? I am an officer of the court and there to serve at the pleasure of the court to ensure that communication services are provided between the court [...]

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Interview with a Band Director

What do you do for a living? I am the middle school Band Director at a middle school in the Southeast U.S. Basically I teach sixth through eighth grade band.  And I also teach eighth grade general music. This is my first year of teaching. How would you describe what you do? I teach students [...]

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Interview with a college professor

What do you do for a living? I’m a teacher at a Carnegie-level university, a Ph.D. granting institution in the mid-South. I’ve been at this school for six years now, but I was hired on the non-tenure track, and I’m considered an adjunct professor, even though I teach full time. In the area I teach, [...]

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Interview with Geoff Collins/Co-Defensive Coordinator Mississippi State

What do you do for a living? I am a football coach and Co-Defensive Coordinator and linebackers coach at Mississippi State. How would you describe what you do? I’m a coach and a mentor to my players. I try to instill values, work ethic, motivation and those kinds of things to eighteen to twenty year [...]

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Interview with a Historian

This in-depth interview was conducted by one of our contest contestants Jordan Grummer. What do you do for a living? I’m a history professor and writer.  I teach U.S. foreign policy and political history at a major university. Can you describe what you do on a day to day basis? I teach 3000 and 4000 [...]

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Interview with a campus Minister

(This is the second of two interviews done by our contest winner, Erin Robertson.  Another excellent interview.) What do you do for a living? I am the director of campus ministries for Christ on Campus at a major University. How would you describe what you do? My goal is to help students take a step [...]

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Interview with a sorority house mom

What do you do for a living? They call us a sorority house director which puts me in the property management category. How would you describe what it’s like being a sorority house mom? I live in a sorority house and every sorority house is different. But probably and this sounds funny about 90% of [...]

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