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Team 2: Career Profile - James

 

Name James Parents Education
Level
Dad: Year 10
Mum: not Year 10
Age 17 Parents Occupations Dad: Self-employed painter
Mum: Home duties
   
Gender Male Family/ Situation Siblings: works at Macdonalds and is in Year 12; still in Year 9
School Year 11
   
Subjects
Studied
Ranking
(1 = best)
English 4
Maths 6
Furniture Construction (VET) 2
Outdoor Education 3
Behavioural Science 4
Media 2

 



Listening to music 2
Watching TV 2
Hanging around with Nick 1

Monday Watch TV/Listen to Music/Hang out at Nick's place
Tuesday Watch TV/Listen to Music/Hang out at Nick's place
Wednesday Watch TV/Listen to Music/Hang out at Nick's place
Thursday Watch TV/Listen to Music/Hang out at Nick's place
Friday Watch TV/Listen to Music/Hang out at Nick's place
Saturday Watch TV/Listen to Music/Hang out at Nick's place
Sunday Nothing

Communication I am dumb, so I guess that I am no good at communicating. That’s what my teacher may as well have said to me last week when I swore at her, that I don’t know how to communicate my frustration… stupid cow.
   
Negotiation I don’t know what negotiation is, someone get me a dictionary.
    
Numerical Hate math, hate school. I can do adding, subtraction and my time tables, what more do you need?
   
Technological I play games on the school computers and watch TV, that’s about the extent of my using technology.
   
Social I hang out with one guy Nick, but that’s about it. We don’t do much. I just go to his house and we watch DVD’s and play computer. That’s all the social life I have, sometimes we throw in a case of beer for extra entertainment.
   
Physical Don’t do any sport so I guess that rules out me being a physical kind of guy.
   
Creative I did a short film for Media Studies - it wasn't too bad. In fact I topped the class.
   
Leadership I don’t do anything where I am going to be a leader. And I definitely don’t follow people who try to lead me, especially when we have to do stupid group activities, I never get involved and if they try to involve me I tell them to get stuffed.
   
Practical What do you mean by practical? There’s nothing I can be really practical at, because I don’t do anything much to do practical.
   
Home duties I don’t do any cleaning, unless I am made to do it. Sometimes I might clean my room (chuck things under the bed) when mum hounds me to do it, and sometimes dad makes me mow the lawn but that’s all. Cleaning is mum’s job she just can’t do it right.
   



Not really talented at anything. But I don’t care because there are heaps of people good at different stuff, which means I can chill out and be bad at everything. I am pretty good at arguing though… is that a talent?

Actually Nick's Dad reckons I'm pretty good with my hands. He is a carpenter and Nick and I help him with some of his jobs and muck around in his workshop.

Casual work:
Never done any casual work, except for a few days helping Dad in the holidays.

Work Experience:
Not doing any work experience because of what my sister told me about being made to do it.




   I have no qualifications or certificates.


 

In a further interview, James revealed a lot more about himself. Click here for James' personal details and views.

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