New Program Helps Kids Explore Career And Job Ideas
Times Argus:
Ashlyn Barcomb, wearing a jazzy black-and-white T-shirt with her blue jeans, carried a poster illustrated with her own cartoon drawings to the front of the guidance class this week. At the top of her poster was the legend, “What I Might Do.”
“I have three major ideas of what I want to do when I get older. The first one is to have a small business – an anime fashion shop,” she said, referring to the Japanese art form. She said the shop would carry both the popular books and anime accessories and outfits, “basically all the stuff you’d expect at an anime convention in my store for half the price.”
She calculated that the business would give her an income of about $18 an hour, which would work out to more than $37,000 a year.
Her second goal was to become a Gothic-Lolita fashion designer and combine Goth-inspired creations with frills. “My friends said I should do it because I can put together an outfit that no one else can, and it’s totally original,” she said.
“But, of course my dream job, which I’m totally going to get,” she declared, “is I want to be a manga-ka,” a designer of Japanese graphic novels.
“The education? I would probably do any classes that I need to brush up my skills on, like backgrounds, and probably take some realistic drawing to brush up on human anatomy,” she said. She noted that American mangas aren’t very popular yet, but she plans to change that. Read more.
Photo: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur / Times Argus.
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