By Richard Bammer

Looking ready for work in his striped tie and Dodger blue shirt with a Jelly Belly logo patch on it, John Jamison might be the last person you would expect to disclose that the path to his current job, vice president of retail operations at the giant candymaker in Fairfield, started out “in the projects” of Pittsburgh, Pa.

His parents ended their schooling in the 10th grade, he told some 40 AVID students who gathered late Wednesday morning in the Armijo High library.

Then Jamison, ruddy-faced and amiable, said it was important to “wake up every morning doing what you love — that will mean everything to your life.”

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