Psychologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

  

  Psychologists study the behavior and actions of people to understand, explain, and change their behavior patterns.  They also provide counseling and therapy to those with emotional, learning, and behavior problems.  Psychologists work in schools, clinics, hospitals, and private practice.  They can specialize in clinical, educational, quantitative, developmental, social, experimental, and industrial-organizational psychology.  Their duties often include: Diagnosing and treating problems, Interviewing and observing patients, Developing selecting and administering tests, Counseling patients, groups, and families. 

Average Salary:  $45,000 - $65,000

Educational Requirements:

    Students should prepare for a career in psychology by taking the most challenging (AP or IB) high school courses available, especially in English and science. Licensed psychologists must earn a Ph.D. in psychology.  Admission to graduate programs is usually dependent on the quality of undergraduate performance in a psychology major.  Clinical psychologists must complete a two-year supervised internship after earning their doctorate and pass oral and written state qualifying exams. School psychologists must earn at least a master's degree.

Reflection:

  I think I would want to be a psychologist because I like working with people and helping them be better.

                  Student Success Statement

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”

                            Ralph Waldo Emerson  

 Reflection: 

  If you’re having problems with something work hard to try to get better at it and not give up. Some people just give up and not accomplish what their dream is. They think that the best way is to stop trying but no that’s just being a failure.If you want to become a professional doctor you have to be persistent and work hard for it.    

                          Psychiatrist

Duties and responsibilities:

  

 Psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in the problems of mental illness.  As physicians, they are licensed to use a very wide variety of treatment and may write prescriptions.  Psychiatrists may work for the government, have their own private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities. 

Salary: $90,000 - $200,000

Education:

   In addition to completing the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine, psychiatrists must complete an intensive three year residency in psychiatry.

Reflection:

 I think I would want to be a psychiatrist because I would like to help people with disability and help them get better.

                       Student Success Statement

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in DETERMINATION.”

Tommy Lasorda

Reflection:

   I think with determination you can archive anything. You have to be determined and make sure what you want. You will go far if you put yourself a goal and work very hard for it.

                           Pharmacy Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

  Pharmacy Technicians work in pharmacies under the direction of a pharmacist.  Technicians measure out correct amounts of medication from larger containers to prescription size containers. They also add drugs to intravenous solutions. They have to check inventories and ordering supplies, they Receive and check in the supplies.  They wait for the customers. They help keep the pharmacy place clean, they also help fill out the insurance form. They work in hospitals, clinics, and retail pharmacies.

 Average Salary:  $15,000 - $25,000

 Educational Requirements:

 Students should take math, science (especially chemistry), and typing courses in high school.

A high school diploma is usually required to begin pharmacy technician training.  Two year courses leading to certificates are available at most community colleges.  Six month programs are offered at privately operated schools.

 Reflection:

  I think I wouldn't want to be a pharmacy technician because all you do it help give medicine and I am more with working with the body and not give medicine they also don’t get paid well. I wouldn't want to be one because it seems very boring and I rather work in a hospital. These pharmacy technicians’ could work in the hospital but that’s not what I would want to do. I also don’t like the idea of cleaning like that’s very low inspiration. I don’t want to work in a place where I have to clean and get paid very little.

                      Student Success Statement

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

Henry David Thoreau

Reflection:

  Sometimes we just dream and dream and don’t achieve our goals. It’s very hard to achieve your goals especially when you have problems like money, family problems. Most people think it’s easy to work hard and do things right. People will always tell you to try your best but the truth is that it’s not as easy as it seems. Most people don’t know your problems and struggles, but it’s your job to get yourself up and prove the people that their wrong. I know it might be hard and even harder when you have problems, but people will see you as a hard working student that no matter how many struggles you have u NEVER gave up.     

                                     Pharmacist

Duties and responsibilities:

  Pharmacists compound, or prepare, prescriptions written by physicians, dentists, and other practitioners.  They review these prescriptions to validate their accuracy and then prepare the medication.  Pharmacists answer patients' and customers' questions about the drugs they are taking and drugs which can be sold over the counter.  In some cases, pharmacists are responsible for taking inventory of the drugs on the shelves and ordering any which they are low on.

 Salary: $33,000 - $51,000          

 Education:

  Students should take the most challenging high school classes (including AP or IB) available in English, science, and math. Normally it takes at least five years to earn a Pharmacy Degree.  To earn a Doctor of Pharmacy degree, Phar.D., requires at least six.

Reflection:

 I think I would want to be a pharmacist because it has to do with medicine and I can help people get the correct medicine. I would like to be one and they also get paid well not so bad.