Career/educational Pathway

Career/Educational Pathway

I have recently put in some time considering future careers I would like to pursue. The three careers I narrowed down to are chiropractic, anesthesiologist, and athletic training. Through research and analyzing each career, I found many new interesting facts and stats on each career. Out of the three the careers that I researched the one that intrigued me the most was definitely chiropractics.

As a chiropractor, you care for patients with health problems of the neuromusculoskeletal system, which includes nerves, bones, muscles, ligaments, and tendons. They use spinal adjustments, manipulation, and other techniques to manage patients' health concerns, such as back and neck pain.(Bls.gov) Muscle spasms are very commonly dealt with in chiropractics as well. Duties that come along with the job include; analyzing the spine, posture, reflexes. Chiropractors use the patients overall health as a benchmark to the proper care needed for each patient. Chiropractors are very hands on with patients, clearly due to the job description. The education required for becoming a chiropractor is, a bachelors and masters degree from a university, with an additional four year at a graduate school in order to obtain a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. The best part about this career was the job opportunities that come along with it. Employment of chiropractors is projected to grow fifteen percent from 2012 to 2022, faster than the average for all occupations.(Bls.gov) The current job market is just as nice, the median pay for chiropractors was $66,160 in May 2012 while the top ten percentage earned more than 142,000 dollars.

Anesthesiologist was another career I looked into. As a Anesthesiologist, the job comes with duties such as preoperative care of patients and work with physicians in the creation of a plan for anesthetic intervention tailored for each individual patient.(Bls.gov) Anesthesiologist deals a ton with computerized equipment, a large percentage of the career is solely dealing with these machines and operating them properly. Monitoring the blood pressure, heart rhythm, level of consciousness, and amount of oxygen in the blood. Education was no surprise for me here; You need a counting four years of undergraduate study, four years of medical school, and four years of residency, it takes twelve years to become an Anesthesiologist. Some medical students enroll in combined six-year undergraduate and medical school programs, which can reduce the time needed to begin a career. Graduate schooling for consists mostly of classroom and clinical training. You must also be licensed in most states to pursue this career.. The field also has a 50 percent growing projection.(Bls.gov) The pay is pretty equal to the education needed, the median pay for Anesthesiologist is $269,600 dollars annually.

Athletic training, was the final career I chose to do some research on. Athletic training has a ton of similarities to my personable preferences that I associate with. For example, providing health care for athletes, assisting athletes to stay healthy, having to be quick and prompt for any situation that may occur. Athletic trainers help prevent and treat injuries for people who are physically active. Their clients include everyone from professional athletes to industrial workers.(NATA.org) One of the most important job duties is to develop and implement a rehabilitation program for patients. If you are going to create a program for a patient; you must also keep track of progress or regression, and all patient records. This career is expected to grow very slowly however, at a rate of 4,900 new jobs over the 10-year period. As a result of it being a small occupation though. The education needed for athletic training is pretty minimal. Most trainers only need a bachelors degree to go along with