Editor’s Note: Your Story, Your School is a piece by Rocklin High School Communications inspired by Humans of New York and the Everybody Has a Story pieces. All subjects are selected at random and interviewed by a member of our staff.

Everybody is passionate about something, and Ryan Wojciechowski happens to be passionate about football. Due to being overly aggressive in his previous sport, soccer, his dad encouraged him to join football in hopes Ryan would fit in better with the constant contact of the sport. This was five years ago, and ever since, Ryan has been passionate about the game he plays under the Friday night lights.

There’s more to Ryan than being a Rocklin High football player, however. He’s scared of clowns, he painfully regrets his Justin Bieber phase back in eighth grade, and he wants to pursue a career in healthcare.

He actually wants to become both a nurse and a firefighter, two very time consuming and vital jobs to the American society.

“I just kind of want to do something that helps people and I don’t really want to sit behind a desk all day,” Ryan said.

Men in the healthcare field are becoming less unheard of, with the statistics of 2,824,641 registered male nurses and 690,038 licensed practical male nurses in the US. Ryan has aspired to be a male nurse for a while now due to his mom’s job at UC Davis as a pediatrics nurse.

Since she worked night shifts, Ryan would often times spend the night at the hospital, following her around and growing fond of the practice his mom worked so hard at.

On the firefighter side of things, Ryan has figured if the nursing career isn’t fit for him, he can always approach this career later in life.

“I just always remember as a kid…seeing the firefighters going around in the big trucks…and thinking it’d be a really cool job,” said Ryan.