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Devyn: Ok, so tell me about your childhood.
Jp: The younger half of my childhood I grew up in the IE or Riverside and Moreno Valley. I had both my parents. My dad worked with the school districts. My mom at the time was a stay at home mom and going to school. I was the oldest son, but I did have one older sister, but she was never in the picture so I was always thee oldest sibling in the family. By the time third grade came around my parents adopted two of my cousins and within the next three years and into middle school my parents were going threw the process of divorcing. So I became the oldest figure. So, alot  of my childhood I had a lot of responsibility on watching and taking care of my three siblings; my brother and my two cousins.
Devyn: Did these responsibilities have any impact on how much you enjoyed your schooling and childhood?
Jp: As far as my childhood part goes, schooling no issue, but as far as regular just being a kid. I felt like as a kid I had like a lot of responsibility and when I’d look at my friends, they didn’t have those type of responsibilities. And as a kid there was a lot of time I wished I was able to just enjoy myself more and just be a kid more and stay up to date with the Pokémon and Yugio and going out and bike riding and building ramps with my friends.
Devyn: At this time did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up?
Jp: When I was in middle school I always wanted to be part of the air force, wanted to be an air force pilot, but as I got into high school, I started to enjoy and start to get into physics. I always enjoyed and wanted to know how things worked. I loved putting puzzles together, solving puzzles. I loved figuring out how things worked and I loved figuring out how to put things together and being creative.
Devyn: So, what do you do now then?
Jp: What I do now. Midway to the end of high school I started a hobby into photography. That’s when the ipod came out with the camera. So I loved taking pictures. So I grew into borrowing a camera and taking my first picture on a real camera at a national park and from there that sparked my interest in the photography world. So what I do now is I do photo and film and the entertainment industry. So I took everything I would do as an engineer and taking things apart and putting things together and figuring out how things worked. I translated that into my skills and knowledge of photography and film.
Devyn: So, what was one of the biggest challenges you had in perusing this career?
Jp: The biggest challenge that I faced so far in this career was going from an amateur, someone who’s not making a living off of it, to becoming a professional who’s making a living off of it. That I saw was the biggest challenge. It was not a challenge networking people. It was a challenge just to work hard, put myself out there and just to be comfortable with myself. So getting my name out there, networking, was never a challenge, but the biggest challenge was becoming a professional and getting paid and building a career off what I want to do and what I like to do.
Devyn: Then what would be the biggest lesson you’ve learned?
Jp: The biggest lesson I’ve learned so far was self worth. It’s very important to know you’re worth and what your value is and it’s very important to learn what you bring to the table and what you can offer, because in the industry what I do, to be general, it’s a service industry. I service others and it’s very important to, if you want to make a living and a career of of it, to know how much your worth is so you know what your careers going to look like and what your life is going to look like as you start towards retirement and some of the things you want to accomplish in life.
Devyn: So, then, what would you consider to be your biggest accomplishment.
Jp: So far Is say one of my biggest accomplishments is establishing myself as someone in photography and the film industry with the people I work with and moving out and being able to live in L.A. I saw that for over a year that my biggest challenge was something to do with commuting and just how far away I lived from the industry in L.A. So, so far one of my biggest accomplishment is now living in L.A. Being able to be surrounded by the industry I work in.
Devyn: And how is this fulfilling for you?
Jp: What I do is fulfilling to me because I see and I feel a lot of joy out of helping people get what they want and what they need. And what I mean by that is a love for what I do and my style and what I do is making people smile and making people laugh and feel comfortable in front of the camera and I love being able to create projects that have meaning in them and as well as seeing the bigger picture and it’s not just the bigge picture but the audience it’s for. So, what I love is being able to comply a project with the audience in mind and making a project that fits whoever the audience may be. So being able to help people be comfortable, candid, and being able to bring the best out of people.
Devyn: So then what would your hopes be for the future?
Jp: My hopes for the future is obviously longevity in what I do and to continue to expand my knowledge in the field work that I’m getting into and my experiences just in life and as well as that I love to grow my network. The people around my and people that have similar goals and interests as well as what they want to do in the future. If they want to retire and surrounding myself with a group of people that want to accomplish greater things in life.
Devyn: So, then, that being your hopes for you. What would your dreams be for me?
Jp: My dreams for you is I want to see you have a drive. I want to see you have a drive for  to be successful in something you want to do and to never give up and to be someone who is encouraged by yourself and what you want you’re future to look like. And to be someone who can solve problems and be some who is innovative and creative and is someone who can make an impact to someone or others on a small scale or other grander scale.
Devyn: So, how would like to be remembered, finally?
Jp: The type of person I’d like to be remembered as is someone who is always smiling and you remember me always smiling, always laughing, always joking around. Someone who always found a way to live life and being able enjoy everything around me. As well as, someone who is creative and strives to be original and be themselves.
Devyn: Ok, well so far, I think you’re on a good track for that. Thank you for letting me interview you.
Jp: It’s my pleasure.