[CALIBK12] Career Resources HS

Sat Apr 18 18:38:16 PDT 2009

 I just went through the entire exercise.  It said I would need $88,000 to make it.  I selected education and it said there were no jobs in education that make that much.

But if a new teacher gets married to a new teacher and they each make $44 thou, they make it......?

There seems to be an assumption that we will all be living alone.

Richard K. Moore, InfoSherpa
Huntington Beach, CA
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From: Catania, Amy <ACatania at wccusd.net>
To: bolshewsky at earthlink.net; calibk12 <calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu>
Sent: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 2:04 pm
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Career Resources HS

Actually, if you want to expand that project a bit, there is a website called California Reality Check (http://www.californiarealitycheck.com/start.htm).  For one part, you can put in what you think your expenses will be and what job you think you want.  If the job you want makes enough money, it will show up and then there are links like how much schooling you need, what your salary will be, what sort of opportunities you have, etc.  If the expenses and career path do not match, no careers show up, and so a student has to go back and rethink.  Also, another part of the site just deals with occupations or salaries.=C
2 You might just want to play around with the site and see if it has what you need.  When we gave it to our high school students, they had a rude awakening.  Most of them went back and modified their expenses so that they could go into the career they wanted.  It was a great experience for them to see what expenses were in the real world!

From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu on behalf of Beth Olshewsky
Sent: Sat 4/18/2009 10:34 AM
To: calibk12
Subject: [CALIBK12] Career Resources HS

Hi,

Please share your favorite resources for HS level career projects: websites, books, databases, etc. for students to find current information about different careers (not job hunting resources): basic information about what people with jobs in that field do, trends in different careers, training and education requirements, forecasts of job creation and current employment market outlooks for the fields, etc.

I will post a hit with all of our favorites at the end of the week.

Thanks,

Beth

Beth Olshewsky

bolshewsky at earthlink.net

District Teacher-Librarian

San Marino Unified School District

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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