Career & Financial Management Part 2

	Teacher  (New York City)	Web Designer          (Los Angeles)	Kindergarten         Teacher (Paris)
Salary	$45,530	$67,000	$23,000
Gross Monthly	$3,794	$5,583	$1,916
Net Salary	$682.92	$1,005	$345

   Gross salary is an aggregate amount of wages received on a regular basis, usually weekly, biweekly, or monthly prior to any deductions such a federal and state taxes. An individual's gross salary is one factor that is used by creditors to determine if credit will be extended to the individual and his/her ability to repay the funds. On the chart above, you can see the three gross salary in different city's. The total cost of my living expenses is $723.92. Net salary is the salary which is left deducting tax and National Insurance contributions. One of the good things about calculating your expenses is you know how much you will have after all your spending or to see if you will have enough to pay your expenses. The net salaries I calculated: of a teacher in New York City  ($682.92), web designer in Los Angeles ($1,005), and Kindergarten teacher in Paris ($345). 

   Calculating my gross salary and net salary now will help me a lot in the future. Creating a plan will make everything easier because you know what you have to do in order, to reach a certain point.Since my net salaries is not a lot so, I might have to do a little of budgeting. Budgeting can help me manage my living expenses much easier. I have to spend according to what I need most so, I don't spend a lot and still have some extra money for emergencies. Doing all the calculations on the household budget worksheet, I realized you have spend carefully because you have to pay fixed expenses, have some savings, and living expenses.

       How to Budget :
1. Forecast your monthly income

2.Forecast your monthly expenses

3.Balance your worksheets

4. Spend according to your plan

5. Compare your actual earning and spending with your targets

6. Repeat the process

Career & Financial Management Part 1

 In 5 years, I see myself graduated from college and having a job to keep me financially stable.  In order for that to happen, I need to make SMART goals and create a good plan to follow.

What does a Goal need to have :

1. Be realistic : A car

2. Be specific: Honda CR-V 

3. Have a deadline: 5 Years
4. Have a price tag: $23, 445

One of my goals in 5 years is to have a car most likely a Honda CR-V. Honda CR-V costs about $23, 445. In order to achieve my goal of wanting a car, I am going to follow SMART goal setting. My target of achieving this goal would be in 5 years most likely after I graduated from college. 

One of the most important things I would do while I am trying to achieve my goals is by breaking them into small steps. For example, I would start by saving money and then, getting a job to save up for buying a car. These steps are called "milestones" meaning major tasks needed to reach the goal. Each of these milestones will help me achieve my goal. Having a goal map/written plan today will help me have a idea of what I want to achieve. If I start saving money today, it will help me achieve my future goals even faster than I think about it. Another thing to remember while I am trying to achieve my goal is my budget. Having a budget will help me save money and let me know up to what price I can spend. 

       


                How to Budget :
1. Forecast your monthly income

2.Forecast your monthly expenses

3.Balance your worksheets

4. Spend according to your plan

5. Compare your actual earning and spending with your targets

6. Repeat the process



                                                                 A Goal Map

CTE EXPO

On February 12, 2015, ITHS had an CTE EXPO for the freshman's. All 3 CTE classes (Web Design, Video Production, Apple) participated in this. Basically this CTE EXPO helped freshman's make their final decision while, picking the academy they want to go to. I remember a teacher giving a presentation about the different academies when I was a freshman, it really helped me a lot so, I tried my best to help answer all the questions the freshman's had doing the expo. The posters we created were lined up in the center on the tables so, the freshman's can walk around to look at our work.

The Expo was a great experience because I got to introduce freshman's to web design. I went to the Expo during periods 1, 4, 5/6, and 7. It was a lot of fun displaying my work to them. They asked me a lot of questions including what we do, what softwares we used to create our websites, etc. I loved the expo during these 3 years of web design because I get to help freshman's who really are interested in a CTE class answer their questions.

Who : Web Design / Video Production / Apple
Where : ITHS
When : February 12, 2015
What : The importance of a CTE Expo was to help freshman's give a idea of what each academy is.
How: By displaying our work to the freshman's we give them a idea of what they will be doing in the CTE class they choose.

Work Process of a Web designer

The first step of creating a website for a client is to learn their requirements such as their target audience and goals of their website. Learning your clients exact requirements will help you save money and time. In addition, it will give you a idea of what to create.




The second step is to create a draft of how the website will look like such as a wire frame or a storyboard. A wire frame is a blueprint that includes the arrangement of a website’s content using a navigation diagram showing how the pages are organized and where the future web pages are expected to be designed. A site map is a list of pages of a website accessible to users. A story board is a sequence of drawings, typically with some directions, representing the outline for a website.

After you are done creating the wire frames and a storyboard, you need to get your clients approval. If your client doesn't give a approval, you have to redo this step until, they say yes to the design. This step will help save money and time also because you only have to change stuff on a draft instead, of starting your coding all over again.


The fourth step is to work on the website where you start writing the coding. You have to develop the website as per as your client's requirements and this is where where a wire frame and a storyboard will help you. Instead, of asking your client where you want the buttons, you can just look at your storyboard to see where it belongs.

The next step is to upload your website and troubleshoot. Look over all the pages and see if all the pages/links work properly. Fix anything that doesn't work.

After you are done troubleshooting, show the website to your client. Your client may or may not approval. If your client doesn't approval, go back to step one and start over as many times you have to make the perfect website for your client.



                                              Process of a web designer :

As a web designer, following the work process of a web designer helps a lot. Creating wire frames before creating a website helps me a lot because it gives me a idea of what I am trying to create, Troubleshooting can be difficult at times but looking over the code, you end up finding your mistake. Having to re-do a website can be a lot of work if it doesn't match the target audience or the goals but if you divide your time, it helps you a lot. Time management has to be the most important thing as a web designer because if you use your time wisely it will help you a lot in the future.

Fall Term Reflection

In the Fall term, I must say I am quiet impressed about my grade I got. It was so awarding to me because I tried and worked my very best. During the fall, I learned a lot of javascript and jQuery. We learned how to change the HTML content to making sliders. Learning how to make buttons (Day&Night) was so much fun. In addition, I loved moving a box by making jQuery buttons. Nothing was boring because every lab challenged me to do better and improve as a web designer. Although, jQuery got a bit difficulty because you had to name the Ids/Class Names different. Overall, I found all the labs fun and interesting.

I can improve this term by using my time very wisely and making sure I learn every skill to the fullest. Since, its my last term in web design, I will try to enjoy everything and try my best to improve and develop more as a web designer. Everything I experienced  in the fall is vital because it helps me gain better web client programming skills. In addition, it improved me and helped me gain more knowledge of being a web designer.

Some of my Fall Term Labs :

In lab 1, we had to create our first JavaScript. We learned how to change the content of an HTML element using JavaScript by creating a button that says "Click Me!" We used the code <button type= "button" onclick= "myFunction()"> Click Me!</button> to create a button. Below the button, it says "This is a demonstration" but when someone clicks on the button, it changes to "Hello JavaScript."

In lab 11, we had to change the content of an HTML page by using jQuery for the first time. The first step of this lab was to attach our jQuery file to it otherwise, it wouldn't work. The "day" button is for a sunny background while, the "night" button is for a dark background and the reset button changes the background to the original background of the page.

In lab 14, we had to create an article that included blockquotes. Basically, we had to put the main quotes from our article on a block next to our paragraph. As you can see, I added 2 blockquotes inside my web design design article. I did this using jquery and javascript.

                                                     
                                                         My Fall term Projects :

For project 1, I created a sarcastic website about how college is "useless". Basically, it was about how colleges put too much stress on students and you can end up with a lot loans. I choose this topic because a lot of people don't take college seriously so, I wanted to show that college is one of the most important steps in your life and without a college degree, you could be basically be jobless. In addition, since we are all also going to college soon, I thought this would be a fun topic to do.

In project 2, we had to create a website based on a radio we choose. We had 4 options: ThisAmericanLife, TheMoth, Freakonomics, and RadioLab. I ended up choosing freakonomics because it had a great variety of different topics and was very interesting to listen to. Choosing a podcast was a little hard because there was so many good ones but I ended up choosing, "Why vampires are good for the economy?"