Career Terms
This is a job you have for a long period of time that you enjoy and means more to you than earning money.
What is a CAREER?
This job requires many years of training beyond a 4 year college. You might operate on people or diagnose illnesses. The median salary for this career is over $200,000.
What is a DOCTOR?
This is something you can measure to see if you might like a future career.
This is the money you earn per year in your career.
What is a salary?
In this career you put out fires and investigate the causes of fires. You do not attend college for this career, but you do attend a specialized training academy and do on the job training. Your salary for this career is about $51,000 a year.
What is a FIREFIGHTER?
This is something you can learn and practice and get good at so that you will be successful in your chosen career.
This is the name of the website you can go to in order to learn about a career and what you will need to do to get into that career.
What is the Occupational Outlook Handbook?
To have this career you must earn a bachelors degree (4 years of college). You will earn about $98,000 a year. In this career you write, test, and modify coding for computer systems. This job has a negative Job Outlook of -11%.
What is a COMPUTER PROGRAMMER?
This is where I can take a variety of classes for free to see if I have an interest in it to see if it is something I might want to study for my future career.
What is High School?
This is a place you study for at least 4 years to prepare for your future career.
What is college?
To have this career, you are often recruited from a college team by a scout. The middle salary that this career earns is about $94,000 a year. This job has a positive career outlook and is growing by 9%.
What is a professional athlete?
This is something I can build so that I will have the skills to be successful in any career I choose for my future.
What are STUDY HABITS or STUDY SKILLS?
This tells you whether or not the job will still be there in 10 years and if the number of jobs in that career is growing or shrinking.
What is the JOB OUTLOOK?
In this career you will earn about $17 an hour. Some people think when you have this career you are rich and famous, but this is not usually true. You will mostly learn how to perform your craft with on the job training. You will need to work in many different locations to find work. You might study in college for this career, but it is not required to do so. The work you do for this career is not steady and you will often have to find other jobs to help with paying bills.
What is and ACTOR?
Sometimes the learning for a career I have chosen will be difficult. This is is what I should do so that I can make sure I still get there someday.