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Advertising Athletic Training Surgeon

What skills and -Work under pressure -Knowing the human -Memory
knowledge are -Work with different anatomy -Human anatomy/how
expected? industries -Communication skills to perform surgery
-Meet sales quotas -Bilingual
What training, -Bachelor’s Degree -Bachelor’s Degree -Bachelor’s Degree
certification, and/or -Major in Advertising -Graduate program -MD
education are required? -Internship/Fellowship
What tasks and -Meeting sales quotas -Helping injured -Performing surgery
activities are -Designing/creating athletes -talking to patients and
performed? advertisements -working at a gym for families
-Meeting with personal training -working a lot of hours
companies to discuss -working with bones,
business plans muscles, medicine
What are the working -Traveling -traveling if working -Fast paced
conditions? -Meeting new people with a team -Great under pressure
-Dealing with larger -Working in any -Seeing blood and
companies weather condition bones
What is the expected -Median pay is around $47,510 $255,110
starting salary and $51,000 with health
benefits? Does it vary benefits depending on
by region? the company. The north
offers higher pay.
What is the 5% (As fast as average) 19% (much faster than 3.8%
employment outlook? the average)
What is an example of a Sales managers With athletic training, I Cardiothoracic Surgeon
specific job in this field (405,700 jobs right would want to work
that might interest you? now) with sports teams.
(look for open positions)
How does this career -I am very organized -I love sports and -I work good under
align with your and scheduled medicine, perfect way pressure
transferable skills and -creativity to combine it. -I love medicine
strengths?
How does this career -A lot less school, and it -Not too much school -Pays extremely well.
align with your goals pays really well. and pays decently.
and values?
Sophia Martin

University 101

Morgan Collins

13 November 2019

Advertising

Advertising is something I became interested in over the summer working in retail and seeing how

poorly the company I worked for was in the advertising department. Because I thought it was in the business

school, I never looked into changing my major until I realized it is housed in the journalism school. I made an

appointment to change it and felt less stressed about life in general and really happy that I was figuring out what

I wanted to do.

Starting with the skills and knowledge required for the career, I think it fits my personality. I like to

work under pressure, however I don’t necessarily like spontaneous events so anything medical wouldn’t be a

good fit for me. Retail is something I’m interested in, so I can definitely tie in my knowledge working in retail

with an advertising career. Moving onto the education requirements for the career, I only need four years. Four

years sounds and feels a lot better than the six or twelve that was needed for athletic training and surgery.

Financially, it takes a lot of stress and weight off my shoulders because my parents told me they would pay for

anything needed for my undergraduate degree, but anything after that I would have to get loans for. Looking at

my charts and comparing the three careers I chose, advertising is in the middle. Often I think about how much a

degree is actually worth, and for athletic training I feel as if the monetary value of it isn’t as strong as the pay is.

For advertising, it definitely seems worth it.

I am a very scheduled and organized person, therefore pretty much any job that requires having a desk

or cubicle would be good for me, and having deadlines to do things. Calendars are my best friends and I have

one with me at all times, even if it’s just writing notes about things I know I won’t end up attending.
Advertising is a field where you have to be creative, organized, and have good communication skills. Creativity

and organization are no issue, but communication skills I can definitely work on.