Classroom to Career Q&A: Featuring Kce’arm, high school junior

Classroom to Career: Real People, Real Answers is an interview series that dives into how students and teachers think about career readiness, careers, and future goals. I decided to ask questions about career choices, AI, remote work, and identity because many young people today may feel pressure when planning for the future, while also still discovering who they are. By interviewing students and a teacher, I wanted to compare different perspectives on how career preparation and life experiences shape confidence and future goals. Through this series, I hope readers can better understand the challenges young people face today and the importance of career readiness, self-discovery, and mentorship. The next interview is with Kce’arm, a junior at South Bronx Community Charter High School.

- Justin, STC intern

What future career do you envision for yourself, and why?

One main future career I envision with myself the most is being a cosmologist, which is the study of space and planets. I see this being my job because...I don’t know, I'm just really into science and I enjoy facts about space and stuff, and [would] love to be a part of that business and field.

If you could choose a career for your parents, what career would you choose for them and why? If they already have careers, do you feel those careers reflect who they are as people? 

My mom already has a career, she is a receptionist for a mental [health institution]. I feel like that job fits her well because she’s very nice, and for someone to be a worker, counseling other patients, you need to be nice, you need to be very social, you need to be very calm with patients and you need to understand where they are coming from. My dad, I feel like he would be an accountant. His current job [is] as a coach at a school, and I don’t think that fits him, though he is athletic. I don’t think that being a coach for a school will be his cup of tea, I feel like he would be better off being an accountant.

Would you rather work remotely or in person? 

I’d say in person because you get to improve more skills. Though being remote, you are working at the comfort of your own home, I just feel like being in person with other coworkers and employees, I feel like that would help you improve your skills and learn more.

Do you think AI will impact your future career?

Yes, because it already does now. So NASA is using AI to discover planets that pretty much don’t exist, or that isn’t really in our observable universe yet.