In any economy, trying to find jobs is tricky business when unemployment rates are high. But, finding a career that will last a lifetime is much easier to obtain than you may think. Here are some possibilities for you to consider if you want high pay, retirement and company benefits.
Spend only one hour a week, in the evenings, for a 4 credit hour course and you will be a pharmacy technician who deals with people and helps them stay healthy. You will be an assistant to a licensed pharmacist and maintaining patient profiles, filing insurance claims, labeling prescription bottles and doing inventory as you restock medications and over the counter remedies.
You must be able to take supervision, deal with people, have the ability to pay close attention to details and never had a drug charge on your criminal record. For this you get rewarded with higher than minimum pay, health insurance and retirement options, among other possible benefits.
If you like doing research and have excellent English skills for communicating with people, you can take a 2 year community college program and work as an assistant to a law firm. Here you will be gathering all the information required to build a legal case, and help defend, or prosecute, people who need a lawyer to represent them.
You must have advanced English courses, be very detail oriented and work well with people. For preparing yourself for this exciting career you get very good pay, insurance to cover your health expenses, and retirement benefits, too. You may be working for a lawyer, a corporation or government agency.
People who have a strong stomach and are very detail oriented may take a 2 year accredited degree program and end up certified member of the Association of Surgical Technologists. You will be in the OR dealing with life and death while assisting a real doctor, and you will extract human tissues and do the sutures after the operation. This is you get paid such very high wages to be far more than just a cleanup tech.
