Product Description: IF WORKING FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD appeals to you, there may be a management level job waiting for you at one of the more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations based in the United States. Working at a nonprofit organization is not just a job, it is a mission, in some cases even a calling...read more

Product Description: FOR PHOTOJOURNALISTS, A PICTURE really is worth a thousand words and if the image is good enough it can be worth a nice payday as well. In this very visual world, photojournalism is the new frontier in news gathering and reporting...read more

Product Description: LOOK AROUND AND WHAT DO YOU SEE? A smart phone, a chair, a lamp, a kitchen appliance, and maybe a vacuum cleaner. What do these items have in common? They are all examples of industrial design that started as ideas drawn on a sketchpad...read more

Product Description: ACHIEVING FLUENCY IN A FOREIGN language can lead to a career as a teacher or translator, both of which offer many opportunities to travel while you help others to accomplish their goals. Teachers help other people to learn foreign languages...read more

Product Description: SOME CAREERS GROW OUT OF OPPORTUNITIES you did not anticipate. People start painting houses as a part-time job while they are in school, and before they know it they have built a successful career competing for commercial painting contracts...read more

Product Description: “YOU’VE BEEN SERVED!” THOSE ARE SCARY WORDS. Nobody likes to get legal documents. They are confusing, intimidating, and most people have no idea what to make of them. Unless, of course, you are a lawyer. When it comes to legal matters, most of us are at a loss without the guidance of a knowledgeable lawyer...read more

Product Description: MOST PEOPLE DO NOT LOOK FORWARD to visiting the dentist. Many avoid it as long as possible. Yet those same people will leave the dentist’s office relieved, often with big smiles (assuming the Novocain has worn off). What most people do not realize is that the profession of dentistry has come a long way in recent years...read more

Product Description: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS GET PAID TO TRAVEL the world and meet interesting people doing interesting things. There is more to it than that, of course, but the essential fact of being a foreign correspondent is that you get to talk to people who make news all over the world...read more

Product Description: ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW CAREERS today is the field of digital journalism. This new breed of professional reporter creates content for online news sites that are accessed through computers and apps on mobile devices. Some digital journalists work for traditional news outlets such as newspapers and television broadcasters, developing new reports or repurposing existing print news stories for online media...read more

Product Description: TODAY’S SUPERMARKETS ARE A FAR CRY from the corner grocery stores that once dotted the American landscape from coast to coast. Supermarkets have evolved into stores that sell everything from frozen foods, fresh meats, fish, dairy products, vegetables, and fruits to packaged goods, pharmaceuticals, potted plants, flowers, balloons, prepared foods, baked goods, greeting cards and magazines, plus essential household supplies like glue, batteries, duct tape, automotive supplies such as motor oil, and even some basic appliances, including heaters, generators, propane tanks, and photographic equipment...read more

Product Description: GRAPHIC DESIGN IS ONE OF THE MOST flexible careers imaginable. From the types of places where you can work to the different jobs that you can do, the combinations are nearly infinite. You can join the ranks of established Fortune 500 companies, or march to your own tune as a self-employed freelancer...read more

Product Description: WHO DOESN’T LOVE A BEAUTIFUL bouquet of flowers? It is hard to think of any occasion when flowers do not add a special touch. Even in the heart of winter, in the coldest regions of the world, the zesty crisp smell, stunning array of bright colors, and eclectic shapes and sizes of freshly cut flowers grouped in an imaginative arrangement perk up everyone’s day and seem to warm the frosty air and melt the snow away...read more

Product Description: The Few. The Proud. The Marines. CHOOSING A CAREER IS NOT A decision to be made casually. You could spend the rest of your life pursuing the goals you choose today. You owe it to yourself to gather as much information as you can about the career choices that interest you...read more

Product Description: CHOOSING A CAREER SHOULD BE AN interesting, eye-opening experience. You are entering a time when you will have to make big decisions about the future direction of your life. You owe it to yourself to get them right. The fact that you have chosen to read this report is a good sign that you are headed in the right direction...read more

Product Description: MANY PEOPLE WHO WORK IN AND around the book publishing industry readily explain that they became involved in the industry because of their love of books. This is often not just a love of reading, but of the books themselves as physical objects...read more

Product Description: DO YOU LIKE HAVING DRAMA IN YOUR life? Theater arts teachers thrive on it. They are committed to developing the next generation of actors – and the generation after that. Teaching theater arts is a special calling. It is for people who love movies, live theater, performing, and seeing the written words of talented writers brought to life by gifted actors...read more

Product Description: A CAREER AS A FASHION DESIGNER begins in your imagination. Are you a person who looks at clothing, shoes and hats as they pass by and imagine another way that they might have been made to look, a different color, perhaps, or another fabric choice, or a change in emphasis of some feature? Do you look at the world around you and see the pattern of shadows a fence casts on a wall and picture a coat with that same pattern? Do you notice the color of the sky on a late afternoon in summer just as storm clouds move to cover the sun and think what an elegant shade that would be for a shirt? Do you feel how comfortable to the touch is the wood used in the benches at a railway station? Imagine how excellent it would be to have buttons made with the same kind of wood? If these are typical of the types of thoughts that go through your mind, then you are on the right track when it comes to considering a career as a fashion designer...read more

Product Description: DO YOU ENJOY HELPING PEOPLE? Would you like to work with state-of-the-art technology? Are you interested in a profession in a skyrocketing segment of the allied healthcare field? These attractive features and many more, characterize the burgeoning specialty of Cardiovascular Technology...read more