Games Tester

Duties and Responsibilities: A person who tests videogames before a deadline for any glitches or bugs that can be found in the game. They make unusual decisions and very likely decisions the person playing the game might make.

Salary: $32,716

Education: Common degree is game design

Demand for this particular career: Every game needs testers and more and more games come out each year. High demand.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not?
Yeah I would want to because I explore almost every part of the game and find the strangest glitches. Some of the parts are looked over. So it's hard to actually play them when I'm so concerned about detail and going the way no one else does.

Trauma Nurse

Duties and Responsibilities: They deal with emergency situations in the hospital and are able to deal with situations where the disease or condition isn't known.
Salary: $60,000
Education: Registered Nurse degree and a bachelor's with a certification.
Demand for this particular  career: 16% increase
Rflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not?
This does sound interesting. I've always liked the trauma centers in hospitals and I've always wondered what it's like to work there and what the environment is like.

Sports Medicine

Duties and responsibilities: Diagnose, treat, and prevent injuries that can happen during athletics or physical exercise.

Salary: $187,200

Education: Undergraduate degree in medicine and courses done for chemistry, biology, and physics.

Demand for this particular career: 14%

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not?
No I don't like the physician field at all. I wouldn't want to be around treating injuries and learning how to prevent them. I would want to go to school for it but I dont think I'd want a career around it.

Speech Pathologist

Duties and Responsibilities: They treat communication and swallowing problems.
Salary: $73,410
Education: Master's degree in speech pathology and language pathology.
Demand for this particular career: 18% as the baby boom generation grows older.
Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not?
No I don't think so. I wouldn't want to be a pathologist for that specifically maybe for something else. Speech pathology is interesting though because living with speech or swallowing issues is really hard to do.

Social Worker

Duties and Responsibilities: They help people cope with everyday problems that may seem unfamiliar or new to them.
Salary: $47,890
Education: A bachelors degree in social work is entrylevel.
Demand for this particular career: It has a positive outlook as the population increases.
Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not?
No I don't think I'd want to be in any social work field. I don't really like anything regarding therapy or helping others deal with problems. I don't think it's much of a specialty for me.

Respiratory Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities: They are people who help patients that are suffering from chronic respiratory disease and have diseased lungs and they also do emergency treatment to people who drowned, had a heart attack, and are experiencing shock.
Salary: $59,710
Education: Associate's degree
Demand for this particular career: 23% positive growth
Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not?
Not really I wouldnt want to do emergency work or anything like that. I think research on the lungs would be more interesting. I would be more likely to do that.

Reiki

Duties and Responsibilities: They deal with the spiritual healing of energy in the body. They turn it into positive energy.

Salary: $39,860

Education: Trade school and a certification in therapy and they need a license for doing safe practice.

Demand for this particular career: unknown

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not?
No I don't really want to do anything spiritual or anything involved with massage therapy. It just doesn't really suit my interests.

Registered Nursing

Duties and Responsibilities: They treat and care for their patients and inform of possible conditions.
Salary: $67,490
Education: Associates or Bachelor degree in nursing and if possible a bachelor of science.
Demand for this particular career: 16% projected growth
Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not?
I considered nursing for a while but I never actually cared that much for something like nursing. It sounds like an interesting profession though.

Recreation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities: They are therapists that use hobbies and activities toi help improve someones mental, physical, and emotional well being.
Salary: $47,680
Education: Bachelor's degree
Demand for this particular career: Projected to grow 7%
Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not?
No I don't think I would want to be that. It's probably a job I'd do well though since I'm good at taking people's interests and making it help them out.

Radiologic Technologist

Duties and Responsibilities: They take CAT and X Ray scans and they administer nonradiactive material into the blood for x rays.
Salary: $60,320
Education: 1-4 years of higher education.
Demand for this particular career: 9% growth
Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one, why or why not? 
No not really I dont have much interest in that. I want to be involved with x rays and things like that though so maybe.

Special Agent

Duties and Responsibilities: Carry out investigationa and protective missions.
Salary: $74,891
Education: Individual qualifications vary.
Demand for this particular career: Higher demand of security.
Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not? 
I think I would want to be involved with the secret service somehow. Preferably in computer oriented assignments.

X Ray Technician

Duties and Responsibilities: These technicians help create images from x rays of the body so doctors could see where the probolem is and diagnose and later treat.
Salary: $76,060
Education: An associates degree and an ARRT certification.
Demand for this particular career: expected to be a 9% increase.
Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not?
I think I would like to be one. I think it's interesting and it isn't like a minor job.
 

Radiation Oncologist

Duties and Responsibilities: They oversee radiation treatment.
Salary: $185,000
Education: Completion of a degree in medicine, two years of medicine hospital, 5 year training program in radiation oncology.
Demand: high
Reflection: Would you like to be one? Why or why not?
I don't think I would. I'm just not interested that much in it.

Pulmonary Medical Physician

Duties and Responsibilities: They diagnose and come up with treatmentr plans involving the lungs and the issues.
Salary: $215,000
Education: Bachelors degree, 4 years of medical school, 3 years of internal medicine residency program.
Demand for this particular career: High demand.
Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not? 
Maybe not specifically a pulmonologist but I would want to be in some sort of inner medicine.

Psychologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Psychologists work to better understand the human mind and its thought process. They also can provide counseling for better mental health.
Salary: $76,040
Education: Undergraduate degree and grad degree.
Demand for this particular career: 19%
Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why or why not? 
No I don't have much of an interest for psychology or mental health. I think its important and cool but I personally wouldn't do it.