Jesse Pinkman

Jesse Bruce Pinkman is a citizen of Alaska and a retired career criminal, best known as the business and meth cook partner of his former chemistry teacher Walter White in the Albuquerque methamphetamine drug trade as a manufacturer and distributor. Prior to working with Walt, Jesse worked as a small-time methamphetamine user, manufacturer, and dealer.
In high school, Jesse was an indifferent student in Walt's chemistry class. Jesse is impulsive, hedonistic, and uneducated beyond high school, but he is financially ambitious and streetwise. He talks in playful slang, likes to wear garish clothing that follows the latest trends in youth culture, plays video games, listens to rap and rock music, takes recreational drugs, and drives lowriders. Although Jesse and Walt began as amateur, small-time meth cooks, they soon climbed up the drug hierarchy, killing or systematically destroying anyone who impeded them. As a result of his relationship with Walt, Jesse becomes an excellent meth cook, ultimately leading to his exploitation by others.
Despite his criminal lifestyle, Jesse was far more empathetic than Walt. While Walt became immersed in the drug trade and became a feared drug kingpin, Jesse was horrified by the brutality at the higher levels of the drug trade, but remained involved with Walt out of necessity until his retirement. He is very protective of children; his desire to keep children out of the violent drug world gives rise to several key events throughout his and Walt's criminal careers. The brutality of the drug trade ultimately resulted in Jesse's decision to leave the criminal business.