Camille Phillips
Youth Development
Coming from Camille
Intro paragraph: who you are, your minor(s), and your specific career goal in youth development.
INTS 4360 · Texas State University · Human Services Career Cluster
Human Services is about helping people at every stage of life. Our five careers line up along that journey: a strong start for kids, a classroom and a field to grow in, programs that hold a community together, a home to live in, and a business that keeps it all running.
Five students, five careers, one cluster. Here is who we are, what we are studying, and where we are headed.
Youth Development
Intro paragraph: who you are, your minor(s), and your specific career goal in youth development.
Texas History Teacher and Powerlifting / Football Coach
Intro paragraph: who you are, your minor(s), and your specific teaching and coaching goal.
Business, Coaching and Training, Community Development
Intro paragraph: who you are, your minor(s), and your specific career goal in business and community development.
Real Estate
Intro paragraph: who you are, your minor(s), and your specific career goal in real estate.
Business Owner, Defense and Aerospace Consulting
Major: General Studies · Minor: Business Administration
I'm a returning student finishing a degree I started a long time ago, and I'm doing it while running a company. I'm president and co-owner of RAMJAC Consulting, a small defense and aerospace consulting firm I run with my husband, who is a veteran. Before this I spent years in the video game industry, so I've got over 20 years across two very different fields. I'm also a mom, which is its own full-time job. My goal is simple: finish my bachelor's and keep growing the business. This degree is a credential, not a career change.
A summary of the cluster: what it is, the pathways inside it, the kinds of jobs, and how big the field is.
Cluster overview (200 to 300 words): definition of Human Services, the pathways, types of occupations, and the range of education levels. Faith will add the BLS numbers and visuals.
What each job actually is, the education or license it takes, and what it pays, with the source named.
Career write-up (150 to 250 words): what the job is, education needed, pay and job outlook with the source.
Career write-up (150 to 250 words): what the job is, Texas certification, pay and job outlook with the source.
Career write-up (150 to 250 words): what the job is, education needed, pay and job outlook with the source.
Career write-up (150 to 250 words): what the job is, TREC licensing, pay and job outlook with the source.
There is no single job title for "business owner," so the closest match in the Bureau of Labor Statistics handbook is general and operations managers, the people who direct the day-to-day operations of a company. That is most of what I actually do: pricing the work, writing and tracking contracts, sending invoices, keeping the books, planning the year, and making sure clients are happy enough to come back. Most people in this role have a bachelor's degree and five or more years of experience in the field first (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025).
Each of us added one milestone from our own field. Together they show how helping people became a profession.
One milestone in youth development, with a sentence on why it mattered.
One milestone in public education or school athletics, plus two or three big-picture Human Services dates as timeline lead.
President Eisenhower signs the Small Business Act on July 30, creating the U.S. Small Business Administration. For the first time, small businesses have a federal agency whose job is to help them get started, get loans, and compete for government work (U.S. Small Business Administration, n.d.).
One milestone in community development or workforce training.
One milestone in real estate, such as when it became a licensed profession.
The Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 gives federal agencies the authority to set contracts aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, building on a 3 percent government-wide goal Congress set in 1999. This is the program that lets a company like ours compete for defense work (Dilger, 2022).
The one thing that makes youth development unique among the five.
The one thing that makes teaching and coaching unique among the five.
The one thing that makes business and community development unique among the five.
The one thing that makes real estate unique among the five.
I'm the only one on the team whose career is building and running the business itself. Every other career here could work inside a company like mine, and my job is making sure that company stays healthy enough to keep serving clients and paying people.
Opening sentence for this section, then one current trend and one future outlook from each teammate, labeled by career.
Camille: one current trend and one future outlook, with a source.
Nick: one current trend and one future outlook, with a source.
Jordan: one current trend and one future outlook, with a source.
Sheed: one current trend and one future outlook, with a source.
Small businesses' share of the U.S. economy. Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy (2026).
Current trend: small businesses are winning more government work. In fiscal year 2024, 28.8 percent of federal contracting dollars went to small businesses, above the 23 percent goal. Veterans own 1.7 million businesses, about 4.8 percent of all U.S. firms (U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, 2026).
Future outlook: the next shift is AI. Between September 2024 and August 2025, only 7.6 percent of businesses reported using artificial intelligence, and the very smallest firms, under five employees, were second only to the largest companies in using it (U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, 2026). For a company our size, that is the gap between keeping up and falling behind.
What each of us is studying on the side, and how it feeds the career we want.
Two or three sentences on how your minor or past courses help in youth development.
Two or three sentences on how your minor or past courses help in teaching and coaching.
Two or three sentences on how your minor or past courses help in business and community development.
Two or three sentences on how your minor or past courses help in real estate.
Business Administration
My business administration minor is the formal version of things I already do every week at RAMJAC: pricing a contract, reading a term sheet, closing the books, and planning cash flow. The classes put names and frameworks on habits I picked up the hard way, and they fill in the gaps, like accounting rules and management theory, that I never got to learn on the job.
APA format. Each teammate adds at least two. Faith's are listed; the rest are added as they arrive.
Camille, Nick, Jordan, and Sheed: two APA citations each, added here alphabetically.