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MAY 2010
TEEN POINT OF VIEW
TOP 10
ALTERNATIVE CAREERS
Do the more conventional career paths seem boring to you? Looking for something different? THE TEENAGER reveals what other teens like you consider the best alternative careers.
Financial Planner
40% Helping clients with investment planning is one of the most critical aspects of a financial planner's job. This includes defining goals the investments are to make possible, such as a college education for a child, retirement or growing personal wealth. These professionals help people deal with personal financial issues through proper planning and a detailed strategy tailored to a client's specific situation, providing direction and meaning to financial decisions.
Foreign Language Teacher
40% Enjoy learning a foreign language? Picture yourself teaching it? Then consider becoming a foreign language teacher. It also provides opportunity to travel with your students to places where the language they are learning is spoken. By helping your students master a foreign language, you'll not only give them a lifelong source of personal pleasure, you'll also help them accept and appreciate people of a different language and culture, turning them into global citizens.
Fashion Consultant
27% A good eye for design, keeping on top of the latest trends and fashions, coupled with marketing and textile experience can be a winning combination. These professionals help clients make style choices appropriate to a variety of social and business situations. It's important that you understand good customer service; you need to communicate with your clients, find out their needs and desires, and then do your best to give them exactly what they want.
Career Consultant
25% With the advancement in the number of job opportunities and specialties that are required today, the need for career consultants has increased by leaps and bounds. They offer specialized information about the type of work, the aptitude that you need to work in a certain industry, educational qualifications required, etc. They guide people in choosing the right career and help channelize their clients' talents and interests onto the right path for a bright future.
Animator
30% Can you turn ideas into life-like or cartoon-style drawings? Why not enter the world of animation? In the world of gaming, animators are in great demand to develop the characters, backgrounds and storyline. They also provide graphics for educational programs, movies, TV shows, advertisements and web design. With constantly changing technologies and a demand for realistic animation, creative positions, like those of animators, are set to rise.
Landscape architect
30% Landscape architects create the landscape around us. They plan, design and manage open spaces including both natural and built environments. They provide innovative and aesthetically pleasing environments for people to enjoy, whilst ensuring that changes to the natural environment are appropriate, sensitive and sustainable. The work covers diverse projects, e.g. designing the layout of parks, golf courses, gardens and housing estates.
Photographer
28% Photographers create permanent visual images for a wide range of creative, technical and documentary purposes. Image content includes wedding and family photographs, fashion, architecture, corporate photography, war zones and landscapes. Most specialise in one area, such as fine art, fashion, advertising, editorial/press or social photography. Many are self-employed while others work for creative businesses, publishers and photographic agencies.
Speech and Language Therapist
22% Working closely with children and adults with speech, language and communication problems, therapists assess the clients' needs before developing individual treatment programmes to enable each to improve as much as possible. They usually work as part of a multidisciplinary team, alongside other health professionals - doctors, nurses, psychologists, physiotherapists and occupational therapists. A growing awareness about treatments for those with speech disorders has increased the demand for these experts.
Environmentalist
22% An environmentalist supports any goal of the environmental movement. His/her job is to help the public make decisions about how we use natural resources. By researching, lobbying and writing articles, these professionals distribute information about the current and future condition of our environment. Typical duties of an environmentalist depend on the individual's specialty; some are scientists who measure contamination, decay, or depletion of resources, while others are policy or lobbying specialists who help make decisions about human behaviour.
Sports Management
31% Participate in - and cash in on - the exciting world of sports from a business standpoint. Learn how the worlds of business and sports interact and how you can make these interactions more profitable and beneficial for everyone involved. Sports management students go on to pursue careers as agents, managers, publicists, among other positions in the sports industry. The knowledge you acquire about both business and sports makes for a whole arena of action-packed possibilities.
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