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Explore Being a Piano Teacher

Musical backgrounds5cz: Briefly describe your job.

I teach private piano lessons in my home.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

I have been doing this off and on over the last 25 years.

cz: When and how did you decide to choose this career?

I wouldn’t consider this my exclusive career. I’ve been doing this in addition to my full time career to supplement my income and to keep my hand in something that I enjoy.

cz: What education and training did you receive before entering your field?

I don’t have a formal college degree in music. I have taken 8 years of private lessons in piano and voice.

Explore Being a Photographer with Debbie Bartlett

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cz: Briefly describe your job.

I am a professional photographer specializing in weddings and families, Mom and Baby, Maternity and High School Seniors.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

I have been a professional for eighteen years. I was a devoted amateur for twenty years prior to that.

cz: When and how did you decide to choose this career?

Immediately after my wedding I decided to be a professional. My husband and I had a heartbreaking experience with our own wedding pictures and I felt at the time that I was capable of much better work than I had personally received.

Explore Being a Musician with Doug

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Hear Doug sing! (and play all the instruments too!)

cz: Briefly describe your job.

I am a professional musician, which means I actually earn a living playing music. It’s what I do, and what I have been doing for many years and I love doing it. I currently perform for private parties, conventions, and corporate special events. I am a one man musical group, playing guitar, keyboard and vocals, over-dubbing the various parts for different musical arrangements, and I perform with my music group. I sometimes hire individual side musicians to fit the type of music required for the gig. I arrange all of my own music and even though I sometimes play the background track music digitally, I always play live guitar or piano. I also sing the vocals live. I will often play solo piano or guitar with no tracks or vocals…just me and the music unplugged.

My musical performances span the spectrum from playing for two U.S. presidents, to playing in rowdy bars with fights on most nights. I have played on beaches, yachts, lawns, around swimming pools and the usual assortment of hotel ballrooms, lounges, and private and social establishments, including cruise ships, I have performed with world class, studio caliber musicians (which was like getting a music lesson with the gig), and with wannabe musicians who I would rather forget.

I am not a recording artist or touring entertainer. I am a self employed working musician. The work I currently do often does not spotlight me. I am not the entertainment. I provide live music to add ambience to a party or background music to a business gathering even if there is dancing, I am usually not the focus of the party.

Explore Being a Music Educator with Craig White

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cz: Briefly describe your job.

I am the director of bands at a public high school. I currently teach students in grades nine through twelve. In this position, I teach a symphonic band, a jazz band of twenty two students, two beginning piano classes and a beginning guitar class. I also oversee a color guard class, marching band, and other related activities outside of the regular school day.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

I am currently in my thirteenth year of teaching.

cz: When and how did you decide to choose this career?

I decided to pursue a degree in music education during my fourth year of college at the age of twenty three. I resisted pursuing education for two main reasons. First, I wanted to earn enough income to be able to provide a future family with a nice standard of living. The other reason was that I once had a man tell me that, “in life, those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach.” As a result, I saw teaching as a profession full of people who were failures, unable to do anything else. I find it ironic that the man who told me this was a minister; a teacher!

Explore Being a Medical Salesman with Jason Reinike

medicine-bottlescz: Briefly describe your job.

I sell medical equipment. I call on Plastic, Oral, Ear Nose & Throat, and Neurosurgeons to sell medical implantable devices for craniomaxilliofacial applications in an operating room setting.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

Two years.

cz: When and how did you decide to choose this career?

I participated in a series of informational interviews after graduating from college and decided after an interview with a medical sales manager that this was what I wanted to do.

massage-therExplore Being a Massage Therapist with Becca Bazzle

cz: Briefly describe your job.

I am a massage therapist who focuses on clinical and medical massage. Not all massage is spa or relaxation based; I work a lot with people recovering from injuries or surgeries. I treat athletes to help them perform at their peak. I am also a Certified Nurturing the Mother ® Pregnancy Massage Therapist.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

I have been a therapist for seven years. I have worked in spas, in occupational therapy clinics, in health clubs, and in massage clinics.

Explore Being a Journalist/Author with Eliot Kleinberg

computercz: Briefly describe your job.

I’m a staff writer for the Palm Beach Post. I work on southern Palm Beach County issues, hurricanes and other severe weather, breaking news and projects. I also write a weekly question-and-answer column on local history.

I also have a second career writing books. To date, I have written nine; all are non-fiction, most are historical, and all focus on Florida.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

I’ve been writing professionally for 30 years, since I did my first freelance piece in college. After graduating in 1978, I was in public relations for a year and radio and television for five years. I then switched to newspapers and spent 2-1/2 years at the Dallas Morning News before returning to Florida to join the Post. I have been there ever since.

timcollieExplore Being a Journalist and Foreign Correspondent with Tim Collie

cz: Briefly describe your job.

I’m a reporter with the Sun-Sentinel, specializing primarily in foreign-based projects and daily news reporting, usually in Latin America or the Middle East.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

Since 1980 as a freelance reporter, and 1986 as a full-time staff writer at daily newspapers.

cz: When and how did you decide to choose this career?

In high school. In 1976. Growing up, I wanted a job that would allow me to travel around the world. I also loved to write, but I had little understanding of what kind of career would allow me to do that. In high school, I took a journalism class and got hooked.

At the same time I had started reading Rolling Stone magazine and just became hooked on that style of (then) radical journalism—the highly personal voice, the novelistic style, the taboo subject matter. I started writing personal features on subjects like skydiving, drug use, even an expose on smoking on the golf team. Even though this was a tiny high school paper in Sandusky, Ohio, the teacher let us push the envelope. The last—the golf expose—didn’t get published but I was hooked because it got everyone’s attention at the school, and raised some neat issues over censorship. I went to college pretty much knowing I wanted to write full time.

global-marketExplore Being an Investment Advisor

cz: Briefly describe your job.

I work as an associate at a hedge fund-of-funds. We are a small shop and as such, the roles I play are very diverse. Operations, administration, investor relations, and manager due diligence are some of the areas in which I provide support.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

I have been in the field for 2 years and in my current job for 1 year.

cz: When and how did you decide to choose this career?

In college, I majored in economics. Most of my classmates opted to pursue a career in finance upon graduation as it was a practical application of their undergraduate coursework. I chose to do the same, though I also weighed entering the teaching profession. I decided it made the most sense for me to try out finance for a few years, and if I did not find it satisfying, I could transition into teaching afterwards. The reverse transition might be more difficult.

wilgusExplore Being an Insurance Consultant with Allison Wilgus

Health Brokers of Florida
Phone: 954.629.3938

cz: Briefly describe your job.

My career as an insurance consultant is based on the needs of my clients. They are looking for a solution to their insurance needs and for most people insurance is not an enjoyable topic. I work with all of the reputable insurance carriers and based on the needs and budgets of my clients, I am able to shop the market and find the product that best fits their needs. Sometimes I am helping a family save money from their current plan, adjusting benefits to more appropriately protect someone, maybe finding coverage for just a catastrophic need, and sometimes I am educating the client on what their insurance does and what everything means. We work for individuals, families, and Medicare-eligible people.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

I have been in the field for about 3 1/2 years. I got licensed as an insurance broker right out of college.

Explore Being a Hydrologic Technician with Hana Blumenfeld

cz: Briefly describe your job.

I am a Hydrologic Technician. I work for the Department of the Interior's United States Geological Survey. I create, manage, and store data based on information collected in the field on rainwater, groundwater and surface water (water in streams, rivers and lakes). I also quantify water quality on a couple of our projects. Our data is available to anyone who wants to use it for free (like the National Weather Service, who uses our data to predict and announce drought and flood conditions and amount of rain in an area).

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

I have been doing this work for three and a half years now, but I have been working in the field of natural resource data collection and field work for 15 years.

carolehurstExplore Being a Home Business Owner with Carole L. Hurst

CareerZing.com talked with Carole Hurst of Slate Hill, New York about running her own business from home selling environmentally friendly products.

cz: How did you get your start in your current job?

I am a past teacher who decided that it was important to be at home while my children were young. During that time I babysat other children. I was concerned about the toxic chemicals used for cleaning and decided to find something that was safe to have around children. I could not find much so I mixed my own concoctions for awhile. Then I met a wonderful mom, like myself, a past teacher, working at home marketing biodegradable cleaners. I tried them and fell in love with them and wanted to make them available for my family and friends too. It wasn't long before I found myself building my own business.

cz: Briefly describe your job.

I educate families about the environment, about nutrition and how to earn an income by helping other families. I teach them how to change brands to healthier products. I have found a company named Shaklee whose philosophy matches my values and ideals of putting people and nature first and really working the “Golden Rule”. They have more than 50 years of successful product development and business experience. They created the first biodegradable cleaning products and they have research that has been published in major medical journals to back up each product they make. But most importantly, their products have worked for me and my family. My home is toxic free. My Shaklee income has enabled me to provide college educations for two of my children and my third is now at Georgia Tech. Finally, my whole family loves the lifestyle and values we share with Shaklee. I do not know if this is for everyone but it has worked for me. I really feel that I am on a mission because as each family changes to Shaklee’s environmentally friendly cleaners and healthier nutrition, the earth is a better place and they have a much higher quality of life as well. I feel I am making a difference in the world. And, if this helps more moms to develop their own business, earn significant income, and work at home around their family’s schedule, it is better for everyone, especially the children.

Explore Being a Health Care Administrator/Social Worker with Arlene Sealey

cz: Briefly describe your job.

Identifying, arranging, developing, coordinating and accessing supports and services on behalf of an individual with a developmental disability.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

7 years

cz: When and how did you decide to choose this career?

I chose this career during the era of privatization with the State of Florida in the Developmental Disabilities Agency. An application must be processed by the Agency for Health Care Administration before one can provide services.

Explore Being a HR Recruitment Strategy Manager with Chris Colbert

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cz: Briefly describe your job.

I am the Head of Global Recruitment Programs for Nokia Siemens Networks. In this role I am responsible for the development of the overall strategy to support our talent acquisition efforts as well as the coordination of various programs, policies and applications that support the recruitment function.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

I have worked across two major fields (Human Resources and Marketing) for the past 20 years. In my past I have worked in a variety of positions for major advertising agencies as well as for major Global 500 corporations.

Explore Being a Guidance Counselor with Jonna Shutowick

cz: Briefly describe your job.

School Guidance Counselor at an Elementary School in Boca Raton, Florida.

cz: How long have you been working in this field?

11 years

cz: When and how did you decide to choose this career?

Upon having my first child, I decided to move toward a career that would allow me to spend a lot of time with my children. The education field is a good way to combine being a mom and a professional at the same time. I was able to bring my kids to school with me. We have vacations and summers off together and I'm home by 3:30 every day.

 

 

 
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