Radiation Therapist  

Duties and Responsibilities: Radiation Therapy Technologist assists radiologists and oncologists (cancer specialists) in treating diseases by exposing areas of patient’s bodies to ionizing radiation. In addition to helping with treatments, technologists are responsible for maintaining the radiation therapy equipment and helping to maintain patient records. Radiation therapy is provided in hospitals, public health clinics, cancer treatment centers, and private offices.

Salary: $22,000-$36,000

Education: Students can train to become a radiation therapist in either one or two year programs.  One year programs are often offered by hospitals.  To qualify for a one year program, an applicant must have graduated from an approved program in radiologic technology or been a nurse with education in radiation physics.  A high school diploma or a GED is required to enter two year courses.

            Responsible or Irresponsible 

A responsible person is one who is able to act without guidance or supervision, because he or she is accountable and answerable for his or her behavior. Such a person can be trusted or depended upon to do things on his or her own. What are the benefits of being responsible? A person who has a reputation of being responsible is trusted to do things on his or her own, without supervision. Being trusted that way is certainly a good feeling.

An irresponsible person are people who are irresponsible often go against the rules--often by impulse--without thinking are caring of the possible consequences. What are some of the consequences of being irresponsible? Some of the consequences of being irresponsible may be detention at school, not being liked, and being hated.

                  Student Success Statement

“The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self- respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.” Dr. Laura Schlesssinger

Reflection: I think that this statement is trying to tell us that the reward for choosing the right is not a reward that is handed but a reward that is earned and when you earn it, it is flabbergasting; it is an award that you cannot obtain without choosing the right and,  the feeling is priceless. The feeling that you get when you know you did something right.  

                             Psychologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Psychologists study the behavior and actions of people to understand, explain, and change their behavior patterns. They also provide counseling and therapy to those with emotional, learning, and behavior problems. Psychologists work in schools, clinic, hospitals, and private practice. They can specialize in clinical, educational, quantitative, development, social, experimental, and industrial organizational, phycology.

Average Salary: $45,000-$65,000

Education: Students should prepare for a career in psychology by taking the most challenging (AP or IB) high school courses available, especially in English and science.

Licensed psychologists must earn a Ph.D. in psychology.  Admission to graduate programs is usually dependent on the quality of undergraduate performance in a psychology major.  Clinical psychologists must complete a two-year supervised internship after earning their doctorate and pass oral and written state qualifying exams. School psychologists must earn at least a master's degree.

                   Student Success Statement
               “Right is right only when entire.”

                              Victor Hugo

Reflection: This statement is telling us that you can only be right when you are choosing the right.

                   Student Success Statement

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”                                   

By:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflection: This quote is telling us how we can make something hard easier to do. An example of this is if you are having trouble with your math homework if you keep on trying and trying it will get easier. 

                               Psychiatrist

Duties and Responsibilities: Psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in the problems of mental illness. As physicians, they are licensed to use a very wide variety of treatment and may write prescriptions. Psychiatrists may work for the government, have their own private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities.

Salary: $90,000-$200,000

Education: In addition to completing the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine, psychiatrists, must complete an insensitive three year residency in psychiatry.