vocational interests

Provides an overview of the theory behind using personality types to make career choices, features descriptions of six personality types with an assessment tool, lists the top fifty jobs for each personality type in terms of pay, growth, and opportunity, and includes profiles of 326 jobs.

Provides specific information on long-term career alternatives for college graduates in sixty major fields of study, describing each undergraduate major and its subfields, discussing the skills required to succeed in the field, and listing related data on employment and earnings outcomes.

Profiles ten people with unusual vocations, including a man--legally named "Spiderman"--who assesses damage and makes repairs on the sides of two-hundred-foot buildings, an NFL kicking coach with no kicking experience, and the voice of thousands of movie trailers, explaining the paths they took to their unique professions.

Shares the stories of eleven men and women--all under the age of thirty--who have pursued their childhood interests and passions to create successful careers.