occupations

Encourages readers to guess who belongs to which hands based on text and picture clues.

Offers advice to parents on how to help their children prepare for college and the twenty-first-century job market, with tips on assessing for strengths, turning talents and skills into jobs, choosing a major, calculating costs, and other topics.

Profiles more than 250 best-paying jobs in the United States, covering duties, requirements, earnings, growth, best-paying metropolitan areas and industries, and more; and provides lists of jobs organized by growth, openings, metropolitan area, industry, gender, age, part-time and self-employment, levels of experience and training, interests, and other categories.

Provides an overview of the field, career opportunities, educational preparation, and discusses the future of the chiropractic physician.

Provides full descriptions of more than two hundred fifty occupations, offering information on the nature of the work, training and eduction required, chances for advancement, job outlook, and earnings for each.

The author describes his experiences after college while working fifty jobs in fifty states over fifty weeks, during which time he worked as a cheese maker in Wisconsin, a border patrol agent in Arizona, a football coach in Alabama, and a coal miner in West Virginia, and explains the five principles that helped him overcome obstacles and challenges.

Children with different interests think about what they would like to be when they grow up.

An alphabet book introducing occupations oriented to the community, including emergency workers, medical workers, the service industry, and business.

Introduces the dentist and explains his work in cleaning and caring for the teeth of his patients.

In addition to information on such diverse occupations as air traffic controller, minister, and speech pathologist, contains exercises and activities to rate aptitudes and interests.