Sports Medicine

Duties and Responsibilities:
They prescribe and administer patient medications, monitor patients during sports events or physical activity and perform tests and prescribe medication and treatment. They must also consult with patients to determine what treatment/medication is best.

Education:
A degree in medicine from an accelerated-medical school is required and a licensed is needed to practice. They may also require 2-4 years of sports medicine experience. Students should begin to take science classes, and math classes at the hardest level in high school and explore different routes of medicine.

Salary:
They make $200,220 a year.

Do you think you would like to be one?
Yes I would like to be one because they get paid a lot of money and they don't even have to do things like surgery. I'd like to be one also because they deal with medicine and I like that route of profession.

Social Worker

Duties and Responsibilities:
They must help families adjust to new changes and help them if they have problems such as illness, abuse, substance abuse, mental illness and other anti-social behavior. They must often help people accept that the situation has changed. Most social workers work at hospitals, offices, courts, and at clinics. They must interview the people they are going to work with, develop plans to help those in need, and refer the clients to specialists.

Salary:
$20,000 - $42,000

Education:
Students should prepare for a career in social work by taking challenging high school courses, especially in English, science, and math. Some organizations may allow a social worker to practice with a bachelor's degree but most require a graduate degree. The next need to have a 2 year licensing completion in order to work.

Do you think you would like to be one?
No I would not like to be one I don't think I can handle all these scenarios where you have to be looking at people who  have been in horrible things like abuse, or drugs, etc. I think I am too weak minded for this job and I feel like it is not my thing.

Student Success Statement
"There is no giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps."
-Anon

I think what this "Anon" means is that you can't become a professional at something, if you try it for the first time. It takes time and patience. It can't be done in one second, it wouldn't make sense. In order to be something in life you have to have the patience and attitude of a champion, even if you don't succeed most of the time. That is what makes people great.

X-Ray Technician


Duties and Responsibilities:
They must operate x-ray technology. They help diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries under the direction of a professional physician. They are responsible for explaining and getting patients ready for the treament. They place all the equipment at the right distance and angle so that the patients can make appropriate images for the physician.

Salary:
 $24,000 - $36,000

Education:
Students should take the most challenging high school courses in English, math, and science. To become a registered radiologic technologist, students must complete a 2 year program. 

Do you think you would like to be one?
No I would not like to become one because I think that it is boring to just align the instruments and get patients ready. I would like to be doing the surgery or operating the lasers and much more. I also feel like they get paid a little bit and I want to be able to do things and I need money for that.

Student Success Statement
Cowardice asks the question 'Is it safe?'
Expediency asks the question 'It is politic?'
Vanity asks the question 'Is is popular?'

But, conscience asks the questions, 'Is it right?'
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor
popular, but one must take it because one's 
conscience tells one that it is right.
-Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.

     This is a great quote by a great man. He is basically saying that you can be cocky,rude, disrespectful, but deep inside you always know that what you do is wrong and bad. Your conscience always wins over, and that is when you realize that all you have done is bad. He is stating that conscience is the only thing that makes us, humans.

Radiologic Technologist

Duties and Responsibilities:
They must operate x-ray technology. They help diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries under the direction of a professional physician. They are responsible for explaining and getting patients ready for the treament. They place all the equipment at the right distance and angle so that the patients can make appropriate images for the physician.

Salary:
 $24,000 - $36,000

Education:
Students should take the most challenging high school courses in English, math, and science. To become a registered radiologic technologist, students must complete a 2 year program. A GED or HS diploma is required to enter the training.

Do you think you would like to be one?
No I would not like to become one because I think that it is boring to just align the instruments and get patients ready. I would like to be doing the surgery or operating the lasers and much more. I also feel like they get paid a little bit and I want to be able to do things and I need money for that.

Student Success Statement
The reaward for doing right is mostly an internal
 phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.
-Dr. Laura Schlessinger

I believe that this great women knows what shes talking about because of expirience. I also think that the things she satted were the things that make humans, humans. Without them we would be like any other animal because we have self worth and we need that to function. Imagine if all the time people put you down because you are fat or gay or ratarded. You need to stand up for your self and choose the right.