Education:

Interest Rate: 58.33%

My goals for my future career are to become a History Teacher. Kind of worked out with my
test as I ended up getting the highest percentage in Education.

Nature of the work:

- Teach courses in human history
- Having a combination of teaching and research

Environment:
- Most postsecondary teachers work in public and private colleges and universities,
professional schools, and junior or community schools
- Outside of class time, most of their schedules are flexible

Duties Performed:
- Helping people
- Teaching
- Talking

Responsibilities:
- Communicating
- Making general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- Remember words, numbers, pictures, or steps

Average Work Week:

- Working daily

Skills and abilities:

- Talking to others
- Reading work related information
- Noticing a problem and figuring it out the best way to solve it
- Teaching people how to do something

Personality traits:
- Helping people
- Teaching
- Talking

National:
- Median Salary (2016): $75,430 per year

Local:
- CA: $58,030
 - The outlook for this job is bright and new job opportunities are very likely in the future
- Research shows growth and a salary increase

- The education and training required for this position are a doctoral degree or master’s
degree are usually needed

Pros:
- Improving students lives
- Having an impact on their education and future
- Having the same school breaks as students

Cons:
- Always working
- Having to deal with students who don’t want to do the work or work in class

This career is a good match for me because:

I’ve always been thanked for helping others and have been told many times I’ll make a good
teacher and I do enjoy helping others learn something or understand something better.

Similar careers:
1. Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement Teachers
a. I wanted to work in criminal justice at some point but in the end I ended up
going towards teaching history at the moment
2. Sociology Teachers
a. This job seems interesting because it is similar as I am teaching people too
and the skills and abilities needed are similar to teaching.