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CAREER RESEARCH TOPIC
GRAPHIC DESIGNER/ARTIST
INTRODUCTION
Becoming a graphic artist not always was appealing to me. Over the years, after my teens and during my 14-year career in the navy, I did so much work in the business/customer service related field. That it made me so fluent on them but yet at the same time in a way, boring. Art was and will always be in my mind and deep in my heart. My late grand-father was an artist in Guadalajara, Mexico. And I believe that is why all of us Plata’s (family name) always finds the field of art a major role in our lives. During my high school experience, many must have thought that I was going to go onto college and immediately major in art. Times were tough back then for me because I was indecisive about going to college in the first place. I ended up going to CSU Dominguez Hills, but I only attended one semester. After several years and so many jobs or fields of work while and during