By WILMA HERNANDEZ

Adolfo Flores, 21, quit his job two weeks ago. “I couldn’t do it; it was a boring job,” said Flores, who had been working as an assistant at the human resources department at his school.

“I don’t care where I go, as long as I’m reporting for the rest of my life, I’ll die happy,” he said. “I learned very young that you better love what you do or you won’t do a good job, and you will be unhappy.”

Flores, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, started at California State University, Northridge, in 2005 and two years later became a reporter for its Spanish school paper, El Nuevo Sol. Last year he began writing for the English school paper, the Daily Sundial. His work at El Nuevo Sol, he said, helped him improve his Spanish. Since 2008, he has been an editor for both papers, and although he prefers writing, he says he finds editing valuable because he can feed from reporters’ ideas.

Flores has also completed several internships, including a summer internship at the Los Angeles Daily News, where he practiced his multimedia skills. In fall 2007, Flores interned at the Hispanic Link, a weekly publication in Washington, D.C., where he covered immigration issues and politics.

Flores has a younger sister and brother. His parents, Delia and Adolfo, both Mexican immigrants from Michoacan, crossed the border to find work. They now own a Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles, where the family lives.

Flores plans to stay in Los Angeles after he graduates in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in Spanish language media.