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Career?


Question Posted Wednesday February 27 2008, 1:47 pm

I'm 16 and a sophomore in high school. I know I have tons of time and everything, I just really want to figure out what I want to do as a career. I don't want to go into college having no idea what I'm going to do with the rest of my life.
I want a career where I could help people. I really want to go into social work, but they don't make much. The average is about $40,000 a year, plus you need a masters in social work, so that's about 6 years in college, and making that kind of money, it's not totally worth it. Plus, it's extremely heart breaking. But social work isn't totally out of the picture.
I've also thought about becoming a nurse. I'm not too good at science and math. Do you have to be really good at those to become a good, successful nurse?
I've tried searching for careers like social work, but haven't come up with anything.
I do pretty well in school. I get about a 3.6. I'm not really good in any subject, but I'm not horrible in any, either.
I don't have to have a career that helps people like social work and nursing Those are the only ones I can think of that I'd possibly like. I would just prefer a job that does, especially helping kids. I'd prefer not to work with the elderly. If you have any ideas at all, it would be greatly appreciated!! :)


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Rosie2000 answered Wednesday February 27 2008, 10:15 pm:
im working on becoming a nurse now. you know what math class they gave us?? add and subtract decimals and fractions and how to convert measurements and stuff. and you knwo what. you use it alll the time so you dotn forget it. science is just anatomy and physiology.. so you need to udnerstand the body and what happens and why it happens.. they will give you classes like chemistry and biology, just study and you will be fine!.. you should think about becoming a special teacher like for austism. they actually make pretty good money in most states.

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ohitscassidy answered Wednesday February 27 2008, 7:16 pm:
well you could maybe try being a message therapist? thats what im going to go to school for.. and can work at a clinic or have your own private place and you can decide your own hours and how much you get paid per client and you dont need to be good in any specific subject for that, all you need is a high school diploma and then you go to a school and you get certified in it like i wanna go to CCMT(ct center for message therapy) it kinda sounds what your describing so yeah

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CaliforniaLover1111 answered Wednesday February 27 2008, 5:05 pm:
you know honestly im not really sure how many jobs that are out there that deal with kids and making alot of money... so if you want to do something then you should just do it regardless of the money...personally id rather love my job and make less then be unsatisfied and make more ya know...but anyway im a freshmen in college this year but in highschool i also knew i wanted to do something with helping out people (mainly troubled teens) so im majoring in psychology and minoring in human development... have you looked up anything about becoming a psychologist or psychiatrist? its alot of years of schooling but i know they make between 65-80,000 a year... maybe even more for a psychiatrist... but yep thats what i wanna do... u know have a nice office and have people come talk to me...and you can work with kids...you can be a child psychologist...well its just an idea :) but if you dont like that idea thats cool... ur first two years in college are just your generel education credits anyway so really you get two more years of figuring out exactly what you want to do... and maybe some of your college classes will help you figure that out if you dont in highschool :)

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