Ask Yourself: What Led Me to My Career Path ?

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Ask Yourself: What Led Me to My Career Path? On average, people make three major career changes in their lives. If you did not get it right this time, get back in the saddle and try again. To avoid repeating the same career mistakes, you may want to get introspective and ask yourself some of the following critical questions. Did I pick this career because of my family’s wishes over my own?Everyone wants to please loved ones. Perhaps your father always wanted you to follow in his footsteps, but you always wanted to take on more risky ventures. Although your loved ones want you to have a stable career, ultimately they want you to be happy. If their approval is extremely important to you, then do your homework and come up with a concrete plan for your risky venture and demonstrate that you have the maturity and determination to realize your goals. Provide a timeframe for how long you’ll give yourself before calling it quits and going the stable route. Something along the lines of, “I’ll give myself five years to make it big as a rock star and if that doesn’t work, I’ll go to law school.” Establish ground rules for how often they can ask you about your “progress.” Learn to celebrate the small steps and brush aside potentially defeating remarks and “I told you sos.” Remember, loved ones care and worry about you, but if they see you happy, they will eventually learn to put aside their fears. Did I pick this job because I had low expectations for myself?Do you think that Bill Gates and Oprah have always been free from insecurity and self-doubt? Think again. Everyone is afraid to fail, but not trying is a bigger failure than getting fired. While it may temporarily bruise the ego, it is an enriching and humbling experience to push yourself beyond your preconceived limits. So, get out of the safe and numb and plunge into uncertainty. Although it may be discomforting at first, nothing is more joyful than discovering a hidden talent or fulfilling a secret ambition. If you need to, fake the bravado and eventually it will become a part of yourself. In the end, if it does not work out, dust yourself off and be proud of your new fearless attitude. It will eventually pay off. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Did I pick this job because I did not want to go to school again?It is understandable that maybe you had a bad experience in high school or college and you don’t want to repeat that again. Unfortunately, some of the highest paying and self-fulfilling jobs require some type of education beyond high school or college. Obtaining a professional degree is very different from high school or college. Gone are the days of reading and writing about things you cannot relate specifically to your career. Professional degrees often are geared to train you in a certain area of expertise. You will not only gain practical experience but valuable contacts in your desired profession. So, let go of your preconceived notions of school and talk to someone who has the degree you want. If the tuition cost is scaring you, then you may have to tighten your financial belt for a few years and look into obtaining student loans. See this cost as an investment in your future. After all, you have a long career ahead of you and the initial cost will eventually be paid off.     (or COR is decizie pol rather than CV.     or ”COR of your money”, rather than bank deposit with low interest and loans with high interest when lack cash-flow) I just don’t know what I want to do! Everything and nothing sounds appealing.Part of being an adult is knowing which opportunity doors to close and which to keep open. Making choices can be difficult, and there are no guarantees. But not making choices and saddling yourself with indecision is no picnic.We hope the personality insights we provided you with point you in the right direction. But this is only the first step. You must do research about yourself and realistic career choices for you. Talk to as many people you know about their occupations and honestly assess whether their interests and lifestyles match yours. Your best friend may love being the artist living paycheck to paycheck, but if you always pictured yourself driving a Mercedes and joining the country club, then the bohemian lifestyle is not for you. Also, realistically evaluate the tradeoffs between your personal and professional life and what the definition of success is to you. Who has not wanted to be a journalist or news broadcaster and make millions like Katie Couric or Peter Jennings? But, do you realize that most journalists start at the way bottom in remote locations away from family and do not make millions? You may want to be a news broadcaster, but understand that most of them start out as unknowns and most stay unknown. You may be that one in a million, but make sure it is not the fame and money but rather the job that drives your ambition.

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What are the highest paying jobs?

Listed below are the 25 occupations with the highest median annual earnings in May 2004. The source is the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics survey. For more information on and data from this survey, go to http://www.bls.gov/oes/.

Occupations with the highest median earnings, May 2004

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Occupation     Median earnings

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Chief executives	$140,350

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Marketing managers	87,640

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SIC Division Structure

A.	Division A: Agriculture, Forestry, And Fishing

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C.	Division C: Construction
		Major Group 15: Building Construction General Contractors And Operative Builders
		Major Group 16: Heavy Construction Other Than Building Construction Contractors
		Major Group 17: Construction Special Trade Contractors
D.	Division D: Manufacturing

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F.	Division F: Wholesale Trade
		Major Group 50: Wholesale Trade-durable Goods
		Major Group 51: Wholesale Trade-non-durable Goods

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I.	Division I: Services
		Major Group 70: Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps, And Other Lodging Places
		Major Group 72: Personal Services
		Major Group 73: Business Services
		Major Group 75: Automotive Repair, Services, And Parking
		Major Group 76: Miscellaneous Repair Services
		Major Group 78: Motion Pictures
		Major Group 79: Amusement And Recreation Services
		Major Group 80: Health Services
		Major Group 81: Legal Services
		Major Group 82: Educational Services
		Major Group 83: Social Services
		Major Group 84: Museums, Art Galleries, And Botanical And Zoological Gardens
		Major Group 86: Membership Organizations
		Major Group 87: Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management, And Related Services
		Major Group 88: Private Households
		Major Group 89: Miscellaneous Services
J.	Division J: Public Administration

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SIC Major Group 83 Major Group 83: Social Services

This major group includes establishments providing social services and rehabilitation services to those persons with social or personal problems requiring special services and to the handicapped and the disadvantaged. Also included are organizations soliciting funds to be used directly for these and related services. Establishments primarily engaged in providing health services are classified in Major Group 80; those providing legal services are classified in Industry 8111; and those providing educational services are classified in Major Group 82.

Industry Group 832: Individual And Family Social Services
·	8322 Individual and Family Social Services
Industry Group 833: Job Training And Vocational Rehabilitation
·	8331 Job Training and Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Industry Group 835: Child Day Care Services
·	8351 Child Day Care Services
Industry Group 836: Residential Care
·	8361 Residential Care
Industry Group 839: Social Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
·	8399 Social Services, Not Elsewhere Classified

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SIC Description for 8331 Description for 8331: Job Training and Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Division I: Services

Major Group 83: Social Services

Industry Group 833: Job Training And Vocational Rehabilitation

8331 Job Training and Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Establishments primarily engaged in providing manpower training and vocational rehabilitation and habilitation services for the unemployed, the underemployed, the handicapped, and to persons who have a job market disadvantage because of lack of education, job skill or experience. Included are upgrading and jobÄdevelopment services, skill training, world-of-work orientation, and vocational rehabilitation counseling. This industry includes offices of specialists providing rehabilitation and job counseling. Also included are establishments primarily engaged in providing work experience for rehabilitees. Community service employment training programs Job counseling Job training Manpower training Rehabilitation counseling and training, vocational Sheltered workshops Skill training centers Vocational rehabilitation agencies Vocational rehabilitation counseling Vocational training agencies, except schools Work experience centers

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Career Guide to Industries (CGI), 2006-07 Edition 

For dozens of different kinds of industries—such as educational services, health care, and motor vehicle and parts manufacturing —the Career Guide to Industries tells you about:

• occupations in the industry
• training and advancement
• earnings
• expected job prospects
• working conditions

In addition, the Career Guide gives you links to information about the job market in each State and more.

Ways to use the Career Guide to Industries site: (1) To find out about a specific industry or topic, use the Search box that is on every page—enter your search term in the box. (2) To find out about many industries, browse through listings using the Industries links that are on the right side of each page. (3) For a listing of all industries in alphabetical order, go to the A-Z Index and select a letter.

About the Guide: The Career Guide to Industries is a companion to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which provides information on careers from an occupational perspective.

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What occupation would be best for me ?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not provide specific career guidance advice. Nevertheless, most Occupational Outlook Handbook statements do give general guidance on the education and training needed to enter occupations. The outlook sections of occupations of interest to you also should be consulted.

America’s Career Info Net at http://www.acinet.org/acinet/library.htm?category=1.5 has links to career guidance associations and services.

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 26. All occupations which consist of jobs in which the workers have mainly legislative, administrative or managerial tasks and duties should be classified to major group 1 “Legislators, senior officials and managers”. In ISCO 68 they were partly classified to major group 2 (AAdministrative and Managerial Workers@) and partly to other major groups.

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21. Skill level references are not made in the definitions of the two major groups entitled

Legislators, senior officials and managers and

Armed forces

respectively, because other aspects of the type of work were considered more important as similarity criteria, i.e.

policy making and management functions, and

military duties, respectively.

As a result there are significant skill level differences of the jobs classified to each of these two major groups. However, the sub major and minor groups of the first major group have been designed to include occupations at similar skill levels.

20. Eight of the ten ISCO 88 major groups are delineated with reference to the four broad skill levels, see table 1. Five of the eight major groups, i.e. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, are considered to be at the same broad skill level and are distinguished by reference to broad skill specialisation groups.