Potential Careers

By Austin Morales

Neurology

Basic Description

• Neuroscience is the study of the brain and the Nervous System.

• Neurologists treat patients and study fMRIs (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging).

Characteristics

• Values: Must possess a care and kindness towards their patients. Must be determined.

• Tasks and Responsibilities: Assessing and diagnosing mental aptitudes, capabilities and disorders.

• Data-People-Things: Work with patients and nurses, fMRI data and medical equipment.

• Work Environment: Hospitals, Clinics, etc.• Work Hours: 40 to 65 hours a week.

Characteristics Cont.

• Aptitudes and Abilities: Must be apt in research, medical terms and decision-making.

• Education and Training: Four years of undergraduate college, Four years of medical school, four years of residency.

• Salary and Benefits: $190,000 a year on average.• Career Outlook: Diagnoses for Alzheimer’s and

dementia increase, more Neurologists necessary.• International Career Outlook: Doctors are more

desired in third world countries.

Lifestyle

• Very long work hours (can exceed 60 hours a week)

• Rewards become priceless; indescribable feeling of saving peoples’ lives.

• Enormous income allows luxurious living space and comfortable retirement

Location

Hospitals Clinics

Career Cluster

• Neuroscience at its core is in the career cluster of “scientific”. Pairing this study with medicine gives it a “humanitarian” aspect. Neurologists can use their science to help humanity.

Compositional Performance

Basic Description

• Compositional Performers write music and perform it at their leisure

• Combines the careers “Composition” and “Performance”

Characteristics

• Values: Must possess passion, talent and creativity to excel.

• Tasks and Responsibilities: Creating music and performing for income.

• Data-People-Things: Work with an audience, instruments and composition tools.

• Work Environment: The mind and the stage.• Work Hours: Depends on individual’s needs.

Characteristics Cont.

• Aptitudes and Abilities: Ability to play one or more instruments, apt in reading sheet music or tabs, understanding in music theory.

• Education and Training: No education necessary; however, a composer must write his music down.

• Salary and Benefits: $50,000<Salary<$90,000. • Career Outlook: Human creativity needed forever.• International Career Outlook: Strictly local.

Lifestyle

• Long hours of practice daily• Flexibility in writing periods• “Own employer status”• Relaxed, but low income.

Location

Mind Stage

Career Cluster

• Music belongs in the artistic career cluster. Coupling music with performance, the product becomes “performing arts”.