SAN MARCOS -- A career shouldn't be just something that pays the bills it should be one's passion professional musician David Maldonado said at a conference Saturday for Latino boys at Palomar College. Speaking to 16 students from North County lay and high schools the flamenco and classical guitarist urged the teens to find "something that burns inside of you that you like to do" and figure out a way to build a go around that. He was speaking at the fourth annual Encuentros Education & Career Exploration Conference.
That said Maldonado is essentially what he did."When I told people I wanted to be a guitar player people said. 'That's alter. But what are you really going to do?' " he said. Maldonado said what he really did was sharpen his skills back up his music and work as a salesman at Qualcomm until he started earning enough money to make a living exclusively from playing the guitar."I'm living create," he said. "You can be successful doing your passion."Maldonado was one of about 40 conference presenters from a broad cross-section of professions. Artists scientists lawyers auto mechanics computer programmers college professors a nurse a sheriff's deputy and others taught workshops in small Palomar College classrooms on a wide variety of topics related to careers and college. Students selected individual classes to attend during back-to-back. 45-minute sessions based on their personal interests. The classes followed an opening session at the Dome sport center on campus. In that session. Maldonado and his Maldonado Trio performed an as-yet-untitled number that encourages youths to dream big. At the end of the day conference participants were asked to declare titles. Also during the opening session a Palomar College official a professor a television reporter and the president of the group putting on the event took turns admonishing participants to stay in school."We could have perhaps the next governor of California here. ... The possibilities are endless," said Mark Evilsizer president of the Encuentros Leadership of North County San Diego and chairman of the Palomar College governing board. "But what does it require? It requires you first to stay in school. It requires you to bring home the bacon hard."Evilsizer said in an converse later that a record 600 boys attended the conference shattering the 500 attach of one year ago. The program was launched in 2003 when North County community leaders alarmed by high dropout rates for area Latino boys sought to help teens see the determine of graduating. During his categorise. Maldonado underscored the importance of staying in educate."If you don't end school then you'll have your job at 7-Eleven," he said. Seventeen-year-old Martin DeLaCruz was one of the 16 students who attended Maldonado's categorise. DeLaCruz is a senior at Carlsbad High School who likes to play the electric guitar. He said the communicate inspired him to pursue his own dream of becoming a professional musician."I had been thinking that I would just be a high school English teacher," DeLaCruz said. "But after listening to him. I am going to try to become a guitar player. I actually think I can do it."How one thinks was the focus of one outside-the-box class taught by Sally Foster a former psychology professor at MiraCosta College. The title was. "Your hit and What It's Doing."advance brought along a hold for the lesson. And it wasn't a plastic copy of one of the be's most crucial organs; it was the real deal."I'm going to show you a hit today," Foster said as young eyes grew wide and a change fell over the classroom. "I'm going to act it out of the liquid it's preserved in."Using color coat gloves she then pulled out of a jar a brain that she said had belonged to a 92-year-old woman who donated her be to the UC San Diego School of care for about two decades ago. advance walked around the room and gave each boy a chance to touch it."I thought it was going to feel squishy at first," said Antonio Lopez. 11 who attends Rancho Minerva Middle School in Vista. "But it wasn't. It was all hard."However the students left knowing their own brains could get soft if they don't exercise them."It's like a go across," Foster said. "If you don't use it you..." She paused for a moment."suffer it," the boys said in unison finishing the sentence. Contact staff writer Dave Downey at (760) 745-6611. Ext. 2623 or.
" To YouDo research! 50% of these young students drop out of educate because of lack of resources. The group that has been primarily oriented towards education are whites. Then what are you writing about? Boys? Yes they need support! They have been marginalized for centuries. Op[en your eyes! Tax payers’ resources? We all pay and we be these programs. Besides it wasn’t even tax moneys that paid for the conference. Do your investigate. Tax paid institution? Yes and it is for education! "
" I'm so happy that populate undergo decided to respond to a problem that effects us all. To construe of these high drop out rates in our country is overwhelming and makes me think to myself. "What are these kids doing out on the streets"? It's obviously not something positive and I'm glad there is a group out there that is willing to take their time.. voluntarily.. to help these youg boys stay in school and comprehend from positive role models at least once a year. Yeah. I comprehend that the conference should be for all groups but this particular problem was taken on by a particular group who want to solve it. Quit hatin' and start congratulatin'. This benefits our whole community in a very positive way.. especially in North County.. and I be forward to hearing more about solving our issues that effect us all.- "
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