Category: Career Choices

Your Career as a Respiratory Therapist

Once you land a new job, you’ll be able to breathe a little easier. But if you land a career as a respiratory therapist, the people you serve will also be able to breathe easier.  And the good news is that respiratory therapy is a growing career field–meaning you just might find it easier landing [...]

Career as an Ultra Sound Technician

Ultra sound is a procedure which makes use of high frequency sound waves that help in viewing internal organs in a body and also acquire the images for diagnosis. This helps doctors in diagnosing various internal organ problems that cannot be detected by an external check up. In the case of a pregnant woman, its [...]

Your Career as a Laboratory Technician

The curious of the world, take note:  A career as a laboratory technician not only will fulfill your desire to find out what makes the world work, it will also involve you in solving problems that will make a direct impact on people’s lives. And in the process, you’ll bring home a pretty good paycheck [...]

Is Computer Science Still a Good Career Opportunity?

Is Computer Science Still a Good Career Opportunity?

In the crazy Dot Com years computer science engineers were the wave of the future and were being scooped up by employers as fast as the universities could produce them. So – is this a wise career choice today? Absolutely – because computers are not going away. If anything, they are becoming more and more [...]

Getting Specific with Your Forensic Science Career

Getting Specific with Your Forensic Science Career

Careers in forensic science have become popular in recent years due television shows such as C.S.I., Bones and Forensic Files.  However, many people seem to think that there is one all-encompassing position of the “forensic scientist.“  In fact, because there are many types of evidence, there also exist many types of forensic science techniques to [...]

Tomorrow’s Finance Careers

A yellow Ferrari pulls into the underground parking.  The driver is heading to his corner office at a premier investment banking company.  By all accounts you would think that he works on Wall Street.  This is not New York; Minneapolis is home to Piper Jaffrey, an industry leader in investment banking.

The Middle Class World of Financial Planning

The Middle Class World of Financial Planning

There’s no question that traditionally, one of the benefits of becoming a financial planner is that your typical clients in the past have been wealthy, or at least, upper-middle class.  For better or for worse, you need to be prepared that this is changing.  Now, more and more middle-class families are hiring financial planners.  This [...]

Care for Animals as a Veterinary Tech

Care for Animals as a Veterinary Tech

Caring for pets has become big business today and offers a rewarding career as a veterinary technician for those who want to care for animals and at the same time find satisfaction that you are keeping them in good health. A two year program that is accredited through the American Veterinary Association is offered at [...]

Your Career as a Pharmacy Tech

Your Career as a Pharmacy Tech

Who are those people on the elevated platforms inside drug stores–and why don’t they stand on the same floor level as the rest of us?  Here’s a hint: They’re not all pharmacists.  Some of them are the pharmacist’s right-hand man (or woman)–a person known as a pharmacy technician.  It’s an attractive career, not because you [...]

Green Careers

Green Careers

The day of Green is upon us and the job markets are flooded with job opportunities. In this day and environment, more people are looking for ways to save the world from pollution and make a decent amount of money. And as the economy continues to shrink and jobs dwindle, the Green job market has [...]