job descriptions

Provides information on 100 careers in areas that offer opportunities to implement social change, featuring a description of each job, with discussion of salary, prospects, qualifications, and characteristics required, and including a profile of a professional working in each field.

Describes nearly 270 occupations, providing information on the skills, training, education requirements, working conditions, salaries, and future growth of each field.

Profiles over 260 careers, providing quick facts on job duties, education and training requirements, earnings, outlook, related jobs, and subjects to study; and suggesting activities to help readers determine whether a particular job is right for them.

Profiles ten careers that are challenging and require courage, including crash scene investigator, diplomat, environmental engineer, first responder, hospice worker, politician, religious leader, social worker, SWAT officer, and teacher.

Profiles ten messy careers, including exterminator, forensic anthropologist, janitor, landfill manager, and mortician, describing their responsibilities, daily tasks, and training.

Provides descriptions of ten fun jobs, including candy maker, cartoonist, clown, comedian, cruise director, magician, museum exhibit designer, summer camp director, toy engineer, and video game designer, and features profiles of working professionals in each career.

Looks at job descriptions, working conditions, educational requirements, and earning potential for careers in a broad range of fields including business, education, health care, the arts, and the armed forces.

Provides an overview of the various occupations men, women, and children held in nineteenth-century America.

Describes approximately 250 occupations and provides information on the skills, training, and education required, the working conditions, and salaries paid, and discusses predictions for future growth in each field.