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Career Descriptions

September 17th, 2007 · No Comments

If you want to learn what constitutes life as a dentist, doctor, or any one of the other careers, check out the descriptions of careers. Each description at the website gives you the following information:

  1. Overview of the job
  2. What you will be doing in a particular work
  3. What kind of personality is suitable for the job
  4. Which type of companies offer jobs
  5. Whether you will be able to open your own business?


For example, you learn from the dentist career description that the skills required, and therefore kind of dentists are as follows:
Diagnostic, Preventative, Surgical, Corrective and Managerial. It leaves out my favorite kind of dentist - cosmetic, but I suppose that comes under “Corrective”. After the dentist, the job description of the greatest interest to the most should be the pharmacist. Anything related to medicine is hot with regards to income-generation prospects, and since everyone can’t work as hard as required to become a doctor, becoming a dentist or a pharmacist may be just the thing for many.

I wish I was a dentist or a pharmacist. Then again, looks like I wished I wasn’t one when I was younger, because I am neither now.

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What 25 years with Greenpeace Feels Like

March 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Brian Fitzgerald write about his 25 years with Greenpeace

Maybe all they had to give was a few bucks. But a few bucks would buy a spark plug. And a spark plug would fire an engine. And an engine would drive an inflatable boat into the path of a harpoon. And those two bucks would be a part of what saved that whale. And saving that whale would be part of what was needed to save the world.


The article has great memoirs, and you can see vividly what life is like for a social volunteer. He talks about how he put his foot in the door, as a door-to-door greenpeace campaigner 25 years ago, and how he has stayed motivated through the years. He says how campaigners are improvisational demographic experts - how they learn to look for the Volvos with the bumper stickers on them (any sticker, he says), and how their spirit drops when they see a truck with a flag decal :)

If there is one article you read today, it should be this one!

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