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Watch this video for a demonstration of “How to Choose the Right Career”. Tocomplete the task, you will need: Reflection Research A belief in yourself Get started with the first step: List your passions and interests. Do you like working with your hands or sitting at a desk? Working with numbers or managing money? Teaching or helping people? Selling or creating things? For the complete guide, go to www.howcast.com Also check out Howcast for other do it yourself videos from deathmonkey and more videos in the General Careers category. How can you contribute? Create your own DIY guide at www.howcast.com or apply to the Howcast Emerging Filmmakers Program at www.howcast.com

Hear one fireman talk about the job of being a firefighter. Firefighters have a heroic, exciting, and dangerous job to do, but it’s a very rewarding career. For a full firefighter job description go to www.usnews.com

A pharmacists job isn’t limited to a pharmacy. A pharmacist career might entail working with doctors in a hospital or with researchers in a pharmaceuticals company. For a full pharmacist job description go to www.usnews.com

Produced by Nancy Christy Heinen for Pathways to Independence. Becky recalls her guidance counselor advising her to look into secretarial jobs, “So I could sit behind a desk all day,” assuming that was all she was capable of. David recounts how he bristled when people told him to be “reasonable” in his expectation s for the future. Melvin remembers sitting in a chicago hospital with other kids who were victims of gang violence, realizing that if he wanted to be taken seriously, he’d have to earn it– but how? Low expectations throw up barriers for a woman with muscular dystrophy, a man with cerebral palsy, a black man with paraplegia. Studies show that students with disabilities are filtered from exposure to opportunities for higher education and vocational training. And yet, these and two other individuals featured in “Careers” demonstrate how higher education is the key for an individual with a disability to break through the barricades that traditionally block disabled professionals from entering the career world. The video illustrates that a wheelchair– or any other disability– does not prevent a person from pursuing higher education and a future more rewarding than simply performing a job. We hope it will inspire, and educate, those with crucial influence on young people with disabilities, and that it will spark the imaginations and aspirations of students to the real world possibilities that can– and should– open the door to finding a path to a career. Tell us …

An Exploration of why you should, and why you shouldn’t consider a career in Information Technology