Finance

Lately in our Career Exploration class we have researched the Finance Cluster. The two careers I choose from this cluster were tellers and insurnance sales agents. These two careers were both similar and different in theri own types of ways. A big thing both careers shared was having to know a lot about customer and personal service. No one would want to buy an insurance plan with someone who didnt have a lot of social skills, or if they were always in a bad mood. Also, you want a person with good customer service as a teller so you can talk to them to cash your checks and recieve checks. They both also shared the work stlye of paying attetnion to detail. If you go to a teller to desposit a check you hope that they give you the right amount and mess it up. Tellers need to always have the exact amount of money or the result could be bad. Insurance Sales Agents also need to pay attention to detail so when soemthing goes wrong they know where their problem is. The work values relationships and independence were shard by both careers as well. Although they have their similarities, they also had some major differences. The projected growth was drastically different for the two careers. For a teller the growht was only -2% to 2%, while an insurance sales agent the growth was faster than average 20% to 28%. Another big differnece between the two was their salary. The annual wages for a teller was $24,940 while an insurance sales agent was $48,150. The insurance sales agent is alomst double then what the tellers was. Also, it is good to have a Bachelor's Degree for an insurance sales agent while only a high school diploma, or equivalent for a teller. After doing this research I concluded that I could see myself pursuing a career in finance. I love to work with money and I like the idea of working in one set spot such as a teller. Im excited to see what the future has in store for me and if I will have a career in the Finance cluster.

Government adn Public Administration

This week in our Career Exploration class we researched out of the Government and Public Administration cluster. The two careers I choose were Political Scientists and Tax Preparers. Although they have their similarities, the two careers both shared some differences as well. Aside from their differneces they had quite a few similariteis. One thing they both share in common is that they both have to a very vast knowledge of Law and Government. Without knowing about Law and Government you couldn't achieve things in these jobs. As well as Law and Government both jobs share these qualities: english language, customer and personal service, active learning, reading comprehension, critical thinking, writing, near vision, oral expression, and writing comprehension. These jobs are also very differnet from each other. One big differnece is there wages. For a Political Scientists they make $49.04 hourly and $102,000 annually. While a Tax Preparer only makes $16.22 hourly and $37,900 annually. Another major difference is the education required. You have to have a higher education to be a Political Scientist, most have a doctoral or professioal degree. A Tax Preparer though only needs to have a high school diploma or equivalent. As well as wages and edication there projected growth is different as well. A Political Scintists projected growth is only 3% to 9%, while for a Tax Preparer their growth is 10% to 19%. I think this cluster is very intresting but I could not pursue a job very well. The careers in this cluster do not really appeal to me as some of the other careers. But, without these careers we would have no government and the world would be quite different.

Weekly Status

This week in my Career Exploration class we had a very busy week. On Monday we researched two careers out of the Education and Training cluster. Followed up by sharing about them on Tuesday. I feel that getting to research two careers of our choice out of a cluster really helps us get an idea about that cluster. I think that the researching is fun becuase you are learning new things about careers you didnt know before. On Tuesday we shared about the two careers similarties. I think this helped us realize that most careers have a few things that they share in common while some are drastically differnent. On Wednesday we were required to finish one career in the Agriculture cluster. This again is making our knowledge grow in the many diffeent careers in the world. Next, on Thursday we side stepped and went back to True Colors. During true colors we found out which color was our dominant one and which one was last. We then filled out a paper better helping our understaning of a career that was our lowest color. My lowest color was a green and I found it that none of those jobs seemed to intrest me. WHat I did find out though was that my oragne somewhat reflects on to the green as well. This week has been quite a lerning experience for me and hopefully it was for the rest of the class.