Travel Careers Offer Best Souvenir Ever: A Paycheck
I’ve had a long vacation this year, a world-wind tour of cities throughout Italy, France and Great Britain. In addition to the great historic and artistic sites, I’ve peeked in the windows of businesses and made it my business to understand what our counterparts here do for a living. I won’t bore you with the [...]
Careers That Might Suck
Okay. This is going to be a quickie. I was at the grocery store today and I ran across a career that might suck. So, I’m standing on the sidewalk when a 1987 (1990 tops) gold Honda Accord with wind-up windows and manual door locks (it was going very slow) passes by. On its side [...]
Careers That Don’t Suck Profile: Judge Advocate
Listen to the Judge Advocate Career Profile Job Title: Judge Advocate AKA: Judge Advocate General (JAG), JAG Officer, Military Attorney What is a/an Judge Advocate? A Judge Advocate is a commissioned officer who serves in the military as a lawyer. Judge Advocates serve as prosecutors, defense counsel, presiding judges, advocates and advisors. What does a/an [...]
Careers That Don’t Suck Profile: Jury Consultant
From the CareerCast series by Careersthatdontsuck.com. Learn what a Jury Consultant does, what the job pays, how to break in, who’s hiring, and of course, why this career do(es)n’t suck! Listen… GET MORE INFO ON THIS JOB Want to learn more about this job? We’ll send job alerts, hiring events and more. First Name(required) Last [...]
Career Profile: Ethnomusicologist
Job Title: Ethnomusicologist AKA: Cultural Anthropologist, musicologists, cultural analysts, folklorists What is an Ethnomusicologist? Ethno, the prefix of the word Ethnomusicology, comes from the Greek word Ethnos, or nation, and refers to ethnicity or ethnocentric. Musicology is the study of music as an academic subject, as opposed to training in music performance or composition. Put [...]
Career Profile: Music Therapist
Job Title: Music Therapist What is a/an Music Therapist? A Music Therapist is a licensed therapist who uses music to treat adults & children with psychiatric disorders, mental retardation and developmental disabilities, speech and hearing impairments, physical disabilities, and neurological impairments, and other disorders. What does a/an Music Therapist do? A Music Therapist does essentially [...]
Mini Career Profile: Linguistics Professor
Okay, this will not be one of my usual profiles because I’m writing this during my 10 minute break. I am attending a reasonably interesting workshop on second language acquisition through task-based language teaching (translation: What’s the best way to teach kids a second language?). The workshop is actually for teachers, but I like to [...]
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