As we look at different careers in the next couple of weeks, how does this article impact your choices? What was the most interesting part of this article to you? Are any of these careers something that you would be interested in pursuing? What is your number one choice of careers right now?
Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs
Due: September 10th
Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs
Due: September 10th
7 comments:
This article does not impact my choices. I have always dreamed of being a prosecuting attorney and will never give up on my dream, no matter what. There was no most interesting part of this article to me. I enjoy seeing the list of best to worst jobs but it did not keep my focus. It's not something that catches in attention entirely. The Paralegal Assistant interests me off of the list the article gives me. It seams to me to be common to an attorney. My number one choice of careers has and always will be a prosecuting attorney. I have always dreamed of being one and nothing will detour me from my dreams. If I can defend the laws and put bad people away for the bad things they do, I believe they deserve it! I hope that I will become an attorney like I have always dreamed. It will mean the world to me.
-Erica Reed
The article had no affect on my choice, either. I also think it's wrong that the hard workers get the "worst" jobs while the "book smart" people get the "best". There may be people who want to be a child care worker, or a dairy farmer, and don't want to be locked up in a stuffy building. Also, in the case that this article does change some minds, it shouldn't, because those "worst" jobs are extremely important to society and the economy and life itself. What would happen if there are no firefighters, or garbage collectors? Besides, they're not completely bad - at least you get paid a lot of money to do it (from what I've heard). I have my mind set on being a veterinarian, and have had that set since I was 5 years old. No article, whether it mentions vet sciences or not, can change my mind so easily. Now, if people were rallying against veterinarians because of some immoral thing they've been doing, I might reconsider it.
This article actually doesn't affect my choices. I already knew that computer-centralized or financial jobs would be of much use in the near future and are good paying, as both of my career choices; accounting and being an actuary, are both in the Top 10. The fact that caught my interest though was at how I noticed that the higher-paying jobs( or white collar) don't have as much physical work as lower-paying jobs( or blue collar). The two careers I would be interested in pursuing is as I said before,would accounting and being an actuary. I am interested with these jobs as they both work with numbers, don't have as much physical work, and are needed for companies and are in high demand. My number one choice would be accounting as it seems a little easier than being an actuary, and to me it's just crunching numbers. This job seems secure to me and I have always wanted a job that needed a little thinking and was useful. I can also apply this job to myself and help my finances when I need it. I wouldn't like to be going back and forth and on a schedule with another job, whereas with accounting I can be flexible with my own hours and be comfortable in an office space in my own home. Being an accountant would make me see my future as something to be confident about, and keep me focused and on the right path.
The article doesnt change my choices at all. I know what I want to be (well deciding between two) and I'm not changing it because of this article. My career choices are not even on the chart but if I had to choose one of these careers it would be either a historian, computer programmer, or an astronomer. My number one choice in a career is a toss up between a Paleontolgist or a forensic science technician. A paleonotologist pays more though so I'm kinda leaning toward that.
The article doesn't effect me in any significant way although it made me think about the issues that go with choosing a career. The most interesting topic in the writing was the issues of pay. While Mike Riegel, the owner of the roofing company, said the projected pay was that of a new employee, it doesn't seem to hold true with people of any amount of time invested in their current job. As an example, Mark Nord says he gets paid about double the listed amount. The jobs shown as the top 20 and worst 20 don't interest me, yet the occupation I'm interested in, aerospace engineering, would have possible tangents with some of the jobs listed.
This article didn't really impact my career choice. I wasn't really set on a career before reading this article and I'm still not. The most interesting part of the article to me was how high paying of a job a Mathematician has. I didn't realize how much more they make in comparison to other jobs. I'm not that interested in any of the careers that were listed in the article. Although I'm not really set on a specific career, I know I want to do something in education.
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