Health Educator

Health Educator

Duties and Responsibilities: Promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health by assisting individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors. ... May also serve as a resource to assist individuals, other professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs. Health educators like helping out and make them feel better or make someone else feel better. They want to see good in other people the want to spread their education they have learned.

Salary:$41,830

Education: Bachelor degree , pass health exam

Demand:Employment of health educators and community health workers is projected to grow 13 percent from 2014 to 2024, faster than the average for all occupations. Growth will be driven by efforts to improve health outcomes and to reduce healthcare costs by teaching people healthy habits and behaviors and explaining how to use available health care services.

Reflection: I would not want to be a health educator because I don't want to help be get better. I want to help solve crimes or murder scenes. I want to be a forensic pathologist not a health educator.

Environmental Health Specialist

Environmental Health Specialists

Duties and Responsibilities:Employment of environmental scientists and specialists is projected to grow 11 percent from 2014 to 2024, faster than the average for all occupations. Heightened public interest in the hazards facing the environment, as well as the increasing demands placed on the environment by population growth, is expected to spur demand for environmental scientists and specialists.

Salary:$67,460 per year

$32.43 per hour

Education:Bachelor's degree, health, safety or a comparable scientific discipline,certification is available through professional organizations,experience is important, through internships or otherwise ,communication skills, attention to detail, problem-solving personality, knowledge of the complex equipment needed to measure the environment, physical stamina and willingness to work on call in emergency cases

Demand for this profession:Earn a Bachelor's Degree,Gain Experience, Consider Certification, Pursue a Master's Degree

Reflection: I would not like to be one because i don't want to do that has to do with health even though what i want to be has to do a little with health i still wouldn't want to be one i have no interest in becoming one this may have to do a lot that i don't really care about health.