Dental Lab Technician

Dental Lab Technician

Duties and Responsibilities: They work with molds and impressions of patients to make crowns, bridges, dentures, and other dental appliances. They work with dentists, but don’t really see patients. They work with small tools like files and polishers to create these dental appliances. They can also specialize in different areas such as: orthodontic appliances, crowns and bridges, complete dentures, partial dentures, implants, or ceramics. Each technician has its own title depending on what they specialize in.  

Salary: The average annual salary for a dental is $28,496.

Education: A way to be a dental lab technician is finalizing one of the two-year or four-year degrees in dental technology that is offered in educational programs. Another way is to become a trainee in a large dental laboratory.

Reflection: I wouldn't like to be one because I don’t want a career in medicine so I don’t think it’s right for me. Also its working with molds and appliances for a person’s teeth and I don’t want to do that.  

High School Math Teacher

High School Math Teacher

Duties and Responsibilities:  High school teachers have to teach classes that involve algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. They also have to make lesson plans, give exams, and grade homework. Also they not only have to work with students but also with parents and school administrators and discuss the students’ performance.

Salary: The average annual salary for a high school math teacher is between $31,212 and $70,896.

Education: All math teachers that are going to teach in a public school need a license. Also many schools prefer to hire an applicant holding a bachelor’s degree.  

Reflection: I think I would like to be a math teacher because I really like math and I am very good at it. I think I will be able to have fun and help students learn math and not think of it as something really hard and impossible to do. 

Yoga Therapist

Yoga Therapist
Duties and Responsibilities: The main priority of a yoga therapist is to keep their clients happy, flexible, and safe. They also have to ensure that all poses are being done correctly and the clients don’t get themselves injured. This requires the therapist to have a close eye on all his/her clients and concise instruction. They also have to recognize their clients’ abilities.  

Salary: The average annual salary for a yoga therapist is $36,900.

Education: To become a yoga therapist the person need a 200-hour basic certification program to graduate and teach yoga in many group settings as therapist. If the person wants to have a professional certification it takes 500 hours but allows the person to open there own private practice.

Reflection: I don’t think I would like to be one because I really am not flexible and also I don’t want to be the cause of a person getting injured because they didn't know how to do the pose.

Executive Chef

Executive Chef

Duties and Responsibilities: An executive chef guides and supervises the operations of the kitchen, including menu development, inventory and purchasing of supplies, and cost control. They also generate and bring up to date menus to maximize profit and minimize loss. They also experiment and cultivate recipes. Finally, along with many more things they do, they monitor customers’ satisfaction.

Salary: The annual median salary for an executive chef is $66,852.

Education: Executive chefs require a bachelor’s degree in the area of specialty and at least 7 years in the field or in a related area. They also are required to have an understanding of federal, state, and local sanitation regulations.

Reflection: I think I would like to be an executive chef because I really like making something that can be good and filled with creativity just like my drawings. Food is art. I want to know how to make that art, because not only does it look good but it tastes good. I would also be one because I will have the liberty to create whatever I want and develop different kinds of recipes that I can love and represent myself. 

Chinese (Oriental) Medicine

Chinese (Oriental) Medicine

Duties and Responsibilities:  An oriental medicine practitioner gives treatments to patients to identify a pattern of energetic imbalance within patient. It also redresses that disagreement through a variation of therapies.  Some types of therapies may include acupuncture needling, cupping, acupressure, and other exercises like the tai ji and qi gong, and Chinese herbal preparations.

Salary: The annual median salary for Chinese medicine clinicians is $46,653.

Education: Four years of training for oriental medicine programs are required as well as a master degree. Also you are mandatory to be licensed in order to practice it.

Reflection: I don’t think I want to be a Chinese Oriental Medicine practitioner because I don’t want to have a career in medicine. A lot of people want that path of life but I want career with creativity where I can make art with my hands, feet, or mouth. 

Cellular Therapy

Cellular Therapy

Duties and Responsibilities: Cellular therapists execute any and all obligatory processing and testing required manufacturing and assessing safe and effective projects. They are also responsible to send results, and on-time completion of projects and experiments.  They also conduct useful lab work, set-up and maintain experiments, inscribe project and experimental protocols, and much more.

Salary: The annual salary for a cellular therapist is $46,000 or $22 per hour.

Education: They need a relevant college degree such as a Bachelor’s or a Master’s. They also need experience in a clinical laboratory, hematology, blood banking, immunology, or cGMP manufacturing. They also need a current Medical Technologist.  At finally, at least 4-6 years of Industry experience is required.  

Reflection: I wouldn't want to be one because it takes a lot of training to be one and a lot of years of experience to be one. I rather have a high pacing job than spending many years on this one career. 

Cardiologist

Cardiologist 

Duties and Responsibilities:  A cardiologist diagnose, prevent, and treat different types of situations in the cardiovascular system. They also treat other diseases and use treatment on the illnesses in the heart and the surrounding places. They also examine your blood pressure, weight, heart, lungs, and blood vessels. They can also perform different types of tests on a patient.
Salary: The average annual salary foe cardiologist is $403,000.
Education:  To become a cardiologist you have to have 3 years of basic science which you get in high school. After that you have they must complete 4 years of medical school. While you are in medical school,  students usually take basic medicine and physiology. You also have to get licensed
Reflection: I think I would like to be one because you win a lot of money and also they specialize in the heart which is pretty cool. Also it doesn't take a really a long time just a few years.

Trauma Nurse

Trauma Nurse

Duties and Responsibilities: The main responsibilities they have are that they have to provide care to patients in an emergency situation. They have to run emergency procedures, act fast and think on their feet, and handle complex and difficult situations. They also operate healthcare machines.  

Salary: The average salary pay for a trauma nurse is $60,000 to $70,000.

Education: The education requirements that a trauma nurse needs is basic nurse training. Hey also have to become a licensed registered nurse. Registered nurses are required to acquire a diploma, associate’s degree, or a bachelor’s degree, but if you want to be a trauma nurse, you have to achieve a bachelor’s degree.

Reflection: I don’t think that I want to be a trauma nurse because you have to be fast on your feet, something I’m not. Also their patients are close to dying or have serious injuries so they have to act fast to save their lives. I really wouldn't want anybody’s life in my hands. 

Biomedical Engineer

Biomedical Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities: Biomedical engineers evaluate and design answers to problems in biology and medicine, with an objective of refining the value and effectiveness of patient care. They design inventions and systems and artificial devices to substitute body parts. They also install, adjust, maintain, repair, or provide technical support for biomedical equipment.

Salary: The annual median for biomedical engineer is $ 86,960 in May 2012.

Education: In high school, future biomedical engineers should take science classes such as chemistry, physics, and biology. They should also take math classes such as calculus. In the bachelor programs they study in, they have to take engineering and biomedical sciences courses. They need a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from an accredited program, to enter the occupation.

Reflection: I would like to be one because two of my favorite classes are math and science and this career requires that. It seems like a pretty good job to work as. 

Architect

Architect

Duties and Responsibilities:  Architects are in the construction business. They design new buildings, extensions or alterations to old buildings as well. They can work in specific buildings to large renovation arrangements. They can also be accountable for the design of the neighboring landscape and spaces. They also work closely with their clients so that their designs reflect what the clients want. They work with a lot of construction professionals so that their designs are accurate and will be able to make. Also they commonly control the project they are working on from beginning to end.

Salary: The median annual wage for an architect is $73,090.

Education: It requires a 5-year profession in the field. They also have to be licensed and have to pass the Architect Registration Examination. This tests the architect’s abilities and if they know the required knowledge of structure, planning, and safe building practices.

Reflection: Yes, I would like to be one because I like to draw and do anything that is creative. When I heard about being an architect, the idea stuck to my brain. I really want to be one because it something I might use in the future. Designing beautiful homes and landscapes is something that I would really like to do. 

Autogenic Training

Autogenic Training

Duties and Responsibilities: Autogenic training is an influential mind and body technique that helps the body minimizes the intensity of its stress response by using uncomplicated relaxation and body awareness workouts.  These techniques help the body’s stress response be substituted with a calmer physiological state in which the body self- heals naturally.

Salary: $35,000- $142,000

Education: You can find the training in the internet. They give you steps on how to do it yourself.

Reflection:  No I wouldn't like to practice this because you are putting your mind in blank and risking that something might happen to you. Also I wouldn't like to be because you can use other ways to relive stress and relax.

Auricular Therapy

Auricular Therapy

Duties and Responsibilities: Auricular therapy is a health care method in which stimulation of the auricle of the external ear makes use of to improve health conditions in additional places of the body. The auricular therapist trigger the high points in which normalizes energy flow, also activates the internal organs to start their function, progresses the circulation in general, and much more. They can also help the patient be brought to a deep relaxation and they also can help the immune system improve as a prevention measure. They focus more in the pressure points of the ear to help the rest of the body.

Salary: The median annual salary is $81,830.

Education: To be an auricular therapist you have to complete the AACF which is the Application of the Auriculotherapy Form. The certification route needs proof of education in this zone, a written test, a practicum exam, and verification of clinical hours conducting auriculotherapy.

Reflection: I wouldn't like to be one because I would have to know all the small pressure points of the ear. Also you have to touch a person’s ear which is kind of nasty. 

Audiologist

Audiologist

Duties and Responsibilities: They conduct and understand a variety of tests such as bone and air conduction, speech reception, and discrimination tests. This helps them figure out the form and degree of hearing impairment, site of damage, and effects on understanding and communication. They also assess test results in relation to the behavioral, social, educational, and medical information of the patient.

Salary: The annual median for an audiologist is $73,836.

Education: They need to have a master’s degree and a nine month fellowship and 0-2 years of experience.

Reflection: I think that I would like to be one because it doesn't take a long time to be one and it looks like something I would like to do. Many of the things they do I would like to learn like trying to see what causes a person to become the way they are and how does that affect them.

Athletic Trainer

Athletic Trainer

Duties and Responsibilities: They treat and avoid injuries related to athletic or the ones you can receive from doing those kinds of sports. They develop therapies to lessen pain and improve agility. They also help in exercise education and display, patient evaluation and testing.

Salary: The annual median salary for an athletic trainer is $40,302.

Education: They have to have a bachelors/master’s degree from an accredited program and a certification in that field.

Reflection:  I wouldn't like to be one because many people in that field see a lot of horrible injuries, broken bones, twisted or bent bones as well, and concussions and much more. That is just too horrible to watch for me and I don’t think I would be able to do that. Also you have to go to the games which are at night and I don’t really like watching sports, I rather play them.

Anesthesiologist

Anesthesiologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Anesthesiologists are physicians. They give pain-killing gas or shots to the patient during a surgery or operations. They can give different types of drugs and levels of anesthesia depending on the patient and this makes the patient become unconscious during the operation/ surgery.

Salary: Anesthesiologists make about $350,554 annually.

Education: They have to complete all their education and that is the following:

1. Undergraduate Degree: About 4 years in college.
2. Medical Degree: About 4 years in graduate school.
3. Residency Training: 4 years of postgraduate training.

Reflection: I would not like to be one because it is too much time in school. I rather have a job that takes a little time and I can gain a decent amount of money. I don’t think I would want to have the responsibility to knock a person unconscious and have that risk of putting too much that they can wake up again.

Ambulance Dispatcher

Ambulance Dispatcher

Duties and Responsibilities: They answer 911 phone calls. They figure out what type of emergency there is and the location of it. They also monitor the police and ambulance units that are rushing to the scene. They give over the phone medical instructions before the ambulance arrives. Last but not least they keep recorded of the calls they get.
Salary: Their annual is $36,300 and per hour its $17.45.

Education: Dispatchers are required to have a high school diploma. The ones that are eligible have to take a written exam and a typing test. They may also need to pass a background check, lie detector, and drugs tests. Also they may need to pass vision and hearing tests.

Reflection: I don’t think I would like to be one because they have to help people calm down when something bad is happening. They have to be under control and know what they are doing. They also have to pass a vision test that I may not pass since I can’t see very well and need glasses.

Allopathic Physician (M.D)

Allopathic Physician (M.D)

Duties and Responsibilities: Allopathic Physicians examine patients, order, perform, and interpret diagnostic exams. They set treatment and oversee it for the people suffering from injury or disease.They can also advice patients about illness, injuries, health conditions and preventive healthcare.

Salary: The average salary for Allopathic Physician jobs is about $93,000.

Education: Allopathic Physicians have to be in medical school for 3 years of college but its recommended 4 years. After the 4 years they are granted a medical degree such as a MD. Also after the four years you have to choose a specialty and do you residency.

Reflection:  I think I would not like to be one because I don’t want to be a doctor or something in that field. It is a very good job and the salary is good. But I’m not a really big fan in science so I don’t think I would be able to even make it through in one month.

Allergist/ Immunologist

Allergist/ Immunologist

Duties and Responsibilities:  Allergists examine and treat both disorders and diseases that affect the immune system or of the immune system. They can also prescribe medicine and oversee the patients’ medication. They perform lab procedures, observe sample tissues, and use different biological and chemical analyses to treat diseases and disorders.

Salary: The salary depends on many factors such as industry, company size, location, years of experience and level of education.  However the annual median salary researchers have discovered is $225,814.

Education: They need a degree in medicine from an accredited school that is licensed to practice. They also may necessitate at least 2-4 years of immunology/allergy experience.

Reflection:  No I don’t think I would like to be one because I don’t think I would like to be something in the medicine field.  Also I would have to first take the course while doing 2-4 years of immunology/ allergy practice then I would be able to start the career. I don’t want to do that I actually want a fast career.

                                                      

Acupuncture

Acupuncture 

Duties and Responsibilities: Acupuncture professionals are trained to treat the patient as an entire individual instead of a certain illness or disease. Also the ones that practice this help patients achieve balance and wellness throughout their lives.  Also they have to be able to have the skills to do marketing, bookkeeping, managing an office and maintaining a positive relationship with the clients to be able to be in this occupation.

Salary: Median annual salary is $69310 but salary could vary depending on experience.

Education: Acupuncturists have to have a master’s degree or a post-baccalaureate certificate from schools accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. They also require 2,000 hours of acupuncture training which could take up to 3-4 years to complete.

Reflection: I don’t think I would like to be one because it’s sticking needles into someone and everyone makes mistakes so I may hurt the person in some way. I also don’t like needles so I don’t think I won’t be able to stand doing that more than a week.                                       

Acupressure

Acupressure

Duties and Responsibilities: The people that practice this have to help patients to achieve balance, goodness, and wellness in their lives. They also have to take into reason the patient’s emotional, physical, and mental state. They are trained that instead of finding and treating the illness of the patient they treat the whole human being.

Salary: The median annual salary is $35,970

Education Requirements:  They need a Certificate of Achievement in Acupressure and an Associate's Degree in Science in Massage Therapy.

Reflection: No I wouldn't want to be one because that's not what I really want to do. Yes I would like to help people but just not in that job. I also don't think that massaging people will help me because I think I would be scared to hurt their back or something and that would be on me.