CAREERS

Objectives• C:A1 Develop Career Awareness• C:A1.1 Develop skills to locate, evaluate and interpret career• information• C:A1.2 Learn about the variety of traditional and nontraditional• occupations• C:A1.3. Develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests and• motivations• C:A1.4 Learn how to interact and work cooperatively in teams• C:A1.5 Learn to make decisions• C:A1.6 Learn how to set goals• C:A1.7 Understand the importance of planning• C:A1.8 Pursue and develop competency in areas of interest• C:A1.9 Develop hobbies and vocational interests• C:A1.10 Balance between work and leisure time

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A person in this career:

• Treats sick or injured animals by prescribing medication, setting bones, dressing wounds or performing surgery.

• Examines animals to detect and determine the nature of diseases or injuries.

• Provides care to a wide range of animals or specializes in a particular species, such as horses or exotic birds.

Veterinarian

Sports Management / Sports Agent

• Negotiate and administer an athlete's or coach's contract as well as his marketing and endorsement contracts.

• Some agents manage their clients' finances, assist in legal disputes and help set strategy for career and post-career goals.

• Also, many agents help their clients on a personal level, perhaps arranging for transportation, finding and furnishing a house or apartment for the season or training camp, purchasing cars and assisting the athlete's family.

What will my Sports Agent Salary be?

Sports agents can charge for their services in a variety of ways including:

Percentage - Agent takes a percentage of a contract, typically 3-5%.

Time - Agent, typically an attorney, charges an hourly rate, typically $400/hour.

Sports League Athlete Salary Agent Salary MLB $20,000,000 $600,000 NBA $25,000,000 $750,000 NFL $18,000,000 $540,000 NHL $10,000,000 $300,000

Player Average Salaries

Sports League Athlete Salary Agent Salary MLB $2,800,000 $84,000 NBA $4,200,000 $126,000 NFL $1,700,000 $51,000 NHL $1,800,000 $54,000

Newscaster A person in this career:• Presents news stories and introduces in-depth

videotaped segments.• Serves as an anchor on news broadcast

programs.• Writes commentaries, columns or scripts.• Selects material most pertinent to a news

story and organizes it for broadcast.• Gathers information and develops

perspectives about news subjects through research, interviews and observations.

• Reviews news items of local, national, and international interest to determine selection.

• Edits material to fit into available time.• Analyzes and interprets news in order to be

able to broadcast the information.

A person in this career:• Portrays and interprets roles using

speech, gestures, and body movements.

• Works closely with directors, playwrights and other actors to find the interpretation most suited to the role.

• Prepares and performs action stunts for motion picture, television or stage productions.

• Attends auditions and casting calls to audition for roles.

• Collaborates with other actors as part of an ensemble.

• Learns about characters and their relationships to each other to develop role interpretations.

• Dresses in costume and make-up to perform comedy routines.

• Reads the script to learn lines and cues and plan stunts.

ACTOR

Web Developer

A person in this career:

•Designs, builds, or maintains websites, using authoring or scripting languages, content creation tools, management tools, and digital media.•Performs or directs website updates.•Writes, designs or edits web page content, or directs others producing content.•Confers with management or development teams to prioritize needs, resolve conflicts, develop content criteria, or choose solutions.•Backs up files from websites to local directories for instant recovery in case of problems.•Identifies problems uncovered by testing or customer feedback, and corrects them or refers them to appropriate personnel for correction.•Evaluates code to ensure that it meets industry standards and is valid, properly structured, and compatible with browsers, devices or operating systems.

Physical Therapist

A person in this career:

•Plans, prepares and carries out individual treatment programs to alleviate pain or improve physical functioning in patients.•Performs and documents an initial exam to diagnose problems.•Evaluates the effects of treatments at various stages and adjusts treatments as needed to achieve maximum benefit.•Administers manual exercises, massage and/or traction to help relieve pain, increase a patient's strength and prevent deformity or crippling.•Instructs patients and their family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.•Reviews the physician's referral and patient's medical records to determine physical therapy treatment required.•Measures a patient's strength, motor skills, sensory perception and functional capacity, and records data.•Identifies and documents goals and anticipated

Aircraft MechanicA person in this career:•Adjusts, aligns, and calibrates aircraft systems, using hand tools, gauges, and test equipment.•Examines and inspects aircraft components for cracks, breaks, or leaks.•Tests engine and system operations, and listens to engine sounds to detect and diagnose malfunctions.•Disassembles and inspects parts for wear, warping, and other defects.•Repairs, replaces, and rebuilds aircraft structures, functional components, and parts, such as wings, fuselage, rigging, and hydraulic units.•Services aircraft by flushing the crankcase, cleaning screens, greasing moving parts, and checking brakes.•Assembles and installs electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and structural components and accessories.•Modifies aircraft structures, systems, and components, following drawings, engineering orders, and technical manuals.

Culinary Arts

The culinary arts pathway offers coursework in food preparation and presentation, spices and flavorings, proper temperatures and food storage. In class, students prepare soups, snacks, salads, entrees, side dishes and desserts. Students can find jobs in restaurants, gourmet grocery stores, hotels and spas, schools and religious organizations, and military and government facilities. Sample careers include executive chef, baker and cook.

Engineering Graphics & Design

The engineering graphics & design pathway allows students to prepare working engineering drawings using industry standard computer-aided design software and hardware. Topics covered include fundamental drawing, and mechanical, electrical and structural drafting and design, geometric tolerances and sheet metal developments. Students will use cutting-edge software to construct two-dimensional and three-dimensional drawings, as well as wire frame and solid models. Students will also construct actual scale models from their working drawings. Potential careers include CADD technician, design engineer, industrial drafter, patternmaker, technical illustrator and engineer.

Fashion Marketing

• The fashion marketing pathway consists of the following concentration courses: marketing principles, introduction to fashion marketing and advanced fashion marketing, along with one “choice” course from the following list: marketing research, entrepreneurship, international business & marketing, and professional sales & promotion. While this pathway focuses primarily on apparel, students acquire foundational knowledge and skills in economics, business and human resources, and core knowledge and skills in product/service planning, marketing information management, purchasing, pricing, promotion, selling, risk management, financing and distribution.

How Many of you ever thought of starting your own clothing line?

Criminal Investigator and Special Agent

• A person in this career:• Determines scope, timing, and direction of investigations.• Obtains and uses search and arrest warrants.• Obtains and verifies evidence by interviewing and observing suspects and witnesses, or by

analyzing records.• Performs undercover assignments and maintains surveillance, including monitoring authorized

wiretaps.• Prepares reports that detail investigation findings.• Collaborates with other offices and agencies in order to exchange information and coordinate

activities.• Compares crime scene fingerprints with those from suspects or fingerprint files to identify

perpetrators, using computers.• Investigates organized crime, public corruption, financial crime, copyright infringement, civil rights

violations, bank robbery, extortion, kidnapping, and other violations of federal or state statutes.• Testifies before grand juries concerning criminal activity investigations.• Provides protection for individuals such as government leaders, political candidates and visiting

foreign dignitaries.

Interior Designer • A person in this career:• Confers with client to determine factors affecting planning interior

environments, such as budget, architectural preferences, and purpose and function.

• Advises client on interior design factors such as space planning, layout and utilization of furnishings or equipment, and color coordination.

• Coordinates with other professionals, such as contractors, architects, engineers, and plumbers, to ensure job success.

• Reviews and details shop drawings for construction plans.• Estimates material requirements and costs, and presents design to

client for approval.• Subcontracts fabrication, installation, and arrangement of carpeting,

fixtures, accessories, draperies, paint and wall coverings, art work, furniture, and related items.

Computer Systems & Support

• The computer systems & support pathway offers students hands-on experience repairing computers and designing systems. Students also gain valuable experience working with help desk topics. Students in this pathway can gain valuable certifications to assist them in their post-secondary education and with job placements in IT.

Hospitality Administration/Management, General

• Hospitality Administration/Management, General. A program that prepares individuals to serve as general managers and directors of hospitality operations on a system-wide basis, including both travel arrangements and promotion and the provision of traveler facilities. Includes instruction in principles of operations in the travel and tourism, hotel and lodging facilities, food services, and recreation facilities industries; hospitality marketing strategies; hospitality planning; management and coordination of franchise and unit operations; business management; accounting and financial management; hospitality transportation and logistics; and hospitality industry policies and regulations.

First job - worked as a "quiet grocery store worker" and was not allowed to talk to customers.

Became an honors student in high school Attended Tennessee State University on a full scholarship.

Later transitioned into television, and became Nashville's first African-American female news anchor.

WHO AM I?

                       “When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

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Careers I am Interested

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