If you ask botanical garden or arboretum professionals what kind of training they think you’ll need, most are likely to recommend a college internship as the way to get started. Not only will an internship provide you with contacts for future employment, it will expose you to the different career options available within these settings [...]
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The Different Kinds of Museums
Today, there are as many different kinds of museums as the topics they explain or the items they display. Some are famous, such as the museums of the Smithsonian Institution; others are small establishments, known only locally. Art Museums Art museums are buildings where objects of aesthetic value are preserved and displayed.Art museums have a [...]
Museum Curators
If you ask some people what they think of museums, they might tell you that the word conjures up images of yawn-stifling tours in quiet, tomblike places, the atmosphere as inspiring as the inside of a crypt. The idea of displaying and examining the art and artifacts that make up the world’s history reminds them [...]
Psychologists, Working Conditions
A psychologist’s specialty and place of employment determine working conditions. For example, clinical, school, and counseling psychologists in private practice have pleasant, comfortable offices and can set their own hours, but they often work evening hours to accommodate their clients. Some employed in hospitals, nursing homes, and other health facilities work evenings and weekends, while [...]
A job, a career or a vocation – you love?
OK, so your job is something you do because you want or need, the world gets smaller – you have not noticed, because you’re too busy to do what you must do to survive. – You know – sleeping, get up, go to work, sleep, get up, go to work .. ohh, and throw in [...]
Changing Jobs – What should I do before changing jobs or starting a business, consider
Wake up in the morning and hate the fact that you return to your work? You get an imaginary pain and finally tell your boss that you will not make it to work? It is time you change your job job.Some are monotonous, and some are not simply what we do dream, but we keep [...]
Social Scientists, Job Outlook
Although overall employment of social scientists is expected to grow only as much as eight percent through 2014, projected growth rates vary by specialty. Anthropologists should experience average employment growth, while employment of geographers, historians, political scientists, and sociologists will grow more slowly, mainly because fewer opportunities exist outside of government and academic settings. Job [...]
Job Outlook, Librarians and Archivists
Although employment of librarians is expected to grow only as much as 8 percent through 2014, job opportunities are expected to be good because a large number of librarians are expected to retire in the coming decade.More than three in five librarians are aged forty-five or older and will become eligible for retirement in the [...]
Salaries
Earnings for college faculty vary according to rank and type of institution, geographic area, and field. According to a 2004–2005 survey by the American Association of University Professors, salaries for full-time faculty averaged $68,505. By rank, the average was $91,548 for professors, $65,113 for associate professors, $54,571 for assistant professors, $39,899 for instructors, and $45,647 [...]
Settings for Scholars
Universities and colleges are the most obvious settings, and it is true that a wide range of research and teaching does go on within those ivy-covered walls. However, scholars also find employment in the following settings: archives libraries museums botanical gardens zoos laboratories hospitals archaeological sites In addition, certain scholars, such as anthropologists, sociologists, or [...]

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