Finance

The past couple of days we have been researching about the finance cluster. The two careers that I researched were sales agents and fundraising managers. The simularities between the two are that in New York they both make around $130,000, they both need to be good at english adn economics/accounting, and they are both growing at an average percentage of 10% to 19%. The differences are sales agents have conventional interests and fundrasing managers have artistic interests, and fundraising managers are in the educational services industry while sales agents are in finance and insurance and self-employed industries. The finance cluster is a high paying cluster that has jobs that do not need much college education to get the job.

Week of October 28, 2013

This week we did two careers in education and training and compared them. We also did two careers in agriculture, but we did not compare them. On Thursday, we did a paper on a career of our opposite color. Since my color is green, I had to do an orange career, so I did carpenter.

Arts

When I researched two careers in the arts, audio/vidio technology and communications cluster I found out many things. The first career that I researched was commercial and industrial designers. Commercial and industrial designers develop and design manufactured products. They make $59,610 in the U.S. and are growing at an average rate of 10% to 19%. The other career that I researched was graphic designers. Graphic designers Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotioal needs. They make $44,150 in the U.S. and are also growing at an average rate of 10% to 19%. The arts career cluster is very important in a society. We need people in these careers and in this career cluster.

TrueColors Perdictions

I think that Mrs. Ridgon is blue because she is nice and cares about her students. I think that Mr. Boyers is gold because he wants to get things done and on time. I think that Mr. Ogle is orange because he is laid back and is fun to be around. I think that Mr. Happ is green because he is a physics and math teacher and he is always seeking knowledge. I think that Karsyn is a blue because she cares about her friends and family. I think that Salem is orange becasue he is fun. I think that Colin is green because he is always seeking knowledge and Tyler is gold because he wants to get things done and he has a strong sense of whats wrong and right.

My TrueColors

Yesterday, my career exploration class and I took a little quiz thing that told you your color based on the things you do and your personality. My color was green then orange, blue, and lasty gold. Green means that I seek knowledge and understanding, I live by my own standard, I need explanations and answers, I value intelligence, insight, integrity, and justic, and I am a natural non-comformist, a visionary, and a problem solver. Even though im green, I have orange too. Orange means that I am a natural trouble-shooter, a performer, and a competitor. I may not be a performer or a competitor, but maybe in the future I will be competing and performing while being intelligent and solving problems.

Business, Management, and Administration

The past couple of days my class and I have been researching business,management, and administration. The two careers that I did were general and operations managers anf food service managers. General and operations managers plan, direct, or coordinate the operations of public or private sector organizations. They need to know how to be clerical, be good at math, and have speech clarity. They also need an associate's degree and make $95,440 in the U.S. and in New York they make $116,100. The second career that I did was a food service manager. Food service managers plan, direct, or coordinate activities of an organization or department that serves food and beverages. They need to know how to educate and train, know about food production, and know about sales and marketing. Also, they need less than a high school diploma and make $47,960 in the U.S. and make $62,400 in New York. Business, management, and administration is a cluster I may consider during the rest of my high school career and before I go into college.

My Learning Style

For the past couple of days me and the rest of my career exploration class have been taking a test at CareerCrusing.com that says what your type of learning style you have. The web site said that im a visual learner, that means that I learn better by reading a article or book and can learn by seeing things like charts, graphs, and pictures. It also means that I should use flash cards, images, and pictures to study. This impacts my learning by helping me learn by seeing. In my future this will help me understand without hearing or doing something, but i'll have to do those "things" in the future.

Human Services

What our class has been doing this week is to find info about the human services career cluster. I found info about a recreation worker and a costume attendents. Recreation workers conduct activities for public, private, and voluntter groups. They make $22,00 in the U.S. and in Illinois the make $20,000. They also need a high school diploma and the projected growth of the job is 10% to 19. The next career I found info for was a costume attendent. Costume attendent's select, fit, and take care of costumes for cast members. They make $36,760 in the U.S. and in New York they make $66,300. They also need only need a high school diploma and the projected growth is 10% to 19%. These careers do not matter to me at all. They do not matter to me because I don't think that I'm going to be in a career in the human services cluster.

Connections Between STEM Careers

The connection that I made between the 2 STEM careers was that the main subject of the careers are the same. A chemist and physicist study the structure and behaivor of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

STEM

Why is STEM a career cluster and an Academy at PCHS. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. In a couple of years almost our whole plant will be around Technology, just opening a door will require a way of opening it without any strength. Technology is also important because it will keep someone alive if they are in a hospital, technology also will help students that had cancer because their writting can be atrcious. Technology can also help people with wheelchairs get up floors in malls and airports with elevators.

Conections of Law and Public Safety

Law and Public Safety makes many conections to other career clusters. In Law and Public Safety, most salaries in this cluster are very high like Lawyers and Intelligence Analysts. Both careers have salaries over $75,000, but in Illinois the pay is higher probably because the demand of lawyers and intelligence analysts is higher. Another that was the same with the pay is the information technology cluster. A career in this cluster that has a higher pay in Illinois is database administrators. They usally average over $77,000 in the U.S., but in Illinois the make over $78,000.

Career Exploration

This blog is to inform others on careers and what to do in high school to get into the pathway for that career.Also this blog will explain the class I am taking to get to the Academy of my choice.