{"id":473914,"date":"2026-10-22T23:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473914\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T23:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:37:21","slug":"miller-elementary-students-explore-careers-beyond-typical-childhood-dreams-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473914\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller Elementary students explore careers beyond typical childhood dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Students at Miller Elementary had the chance to learn about career options beyond common childhood answers like princess, rock star or actress during a recent event at the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Third grader Eli Morman said he wants to be a firefighter. Classmate Avery Newton said she wants to be a teacher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lacy Simon, a counselor at Miller Elementary, said events like this help students consider careers they may not have known about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think that sometimes they get into a little bubble and they\u2019re like, I just want to be this or that. But this is like a whole new world for them and it\u2019s just pretty awesome,\u201d Simon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Even though the third graders had already named their dream jobs, they still visited other career stations during the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Morman said a member of UMC\u2019s Aero Transport team caught his interest, despite his interest in firefighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey\u2019re showing us what they do and how they serve our community. This day that he helps people child care. He helps people rescue shelter that if they\u2019re really safe, they get to fly on the helicopter really fast to go safe home,\u201d Morman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Simon said students sometimes mirror the careers they see their parents doing each day. She said events like this can help students consider other options.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Students at Miller Elementary had the chance to learn about career options beyond common&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-473914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}