Samuel Seium Case Study

Samuel Seium. Andrew is a thirty-year-old African-American male from Springfield, Virginia. He has been married for five years and has a two-year-old daughter. Andrew is a middle child of three and has a close relationship with his family. He currently works at a loan store in Virginia as an account manager for the last two years. In the criminal justice system, he was charged as an adult while he was a minor and he currently has several felony convictions on his record. Due to his felony record, he takes whatever jobs that are offered to him because the felony convictions limited the jobs that he can apply to and his upward mobility at a company. Another influence on his career decisions is his parole officer because he needs to find a job
and keep it or he could possibly be sent back to prison. With the possibility of prison time, Andrew feels like he has no choice but to take any job that is offered. He has had eight jobs since he started working at the age of eleven. Andrew believes that having a felony record has been a huge barrier to him finding jobs that he enjoys. Due to his felony record, he feels like he has to take any offer he can because he does not know when he would receive another offer. He would take any offer a temp agency would give him or family friends would hire him to do his parents a favor. Additionally, Andrew claims that the majority of the good jobs that he received did not give him a background check. He has changed jobs ranging from every year to two years because they have mainly been temporary positions. Andrew’s occupational journey through the eyes of Super’s life span, life-space theory started at the growth stage.
His first job was at the age of eleven when his older brother was no longer going to work the paper route so Andrew decided to take over. As the younger brother, he would follow his older brother on the paper route because he was interested and learned about the job and the value of work. Andrew would fantasize about having a job himself and when his brother quit the paper route he decided to take it. After Andrew was released from prison at the age of twenty-two, he was in the exploration stage. He would apply to jobs that he was interested in but he kept getting rejected because of his felony record. He decided quickly that he would take any job that he could get because his parole officer could send him back to prison. This resulted in him bouncing around six jobs over a period of seven years because they were temporary positions. Now at the age of thirty, Andrew is in the establishment stage. He started working at a loan store over a year ago and they have decided to promote him to a manager position two months ago. He likes his job and wants to stay long-term. He talked about how he wanted to get another promotion within the company in a few
years.