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aerospace engineer mutual fund manager surgeon lawyer

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president of the united states waiter pet sitter celebrity personal

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assistant taxi driver uber driver better notice any difference Well [Taxi and lambhorgini appear]

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aside from the background being a different color good catch

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by the way everything in the first set was a

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career while everything in the second set was merely a

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job there's an important distinction between the two jobs pay

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you cash for hours of your life you'll never get

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back Is a burger flipper really any better at flipping [Man flips a burger]

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burgers After twenty years on the job before robots replace

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him there isn't a burger flipping olympics so that'd be

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tough to gauge careers however give you the opportunity to

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learn to grow and to embrace a new way of

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living something better A lawyer is better after twenty years [Lawyer appears in court room]

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on the job so is a doctor there's a reason

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they call what they do practice but even people such

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as professional athletes chefs and cinematographers get better with age

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Until a point for the athletes there were looking atyou

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Peyton manning it makes sense that you'd get paid less [Peyton Manning appears]

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money to perform a job than a career it doesn't

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Take much riel skill to shovel driveways or walk dogs [Woman walking with dog]

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Basically anyone can perform that job but to build a

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career you must be educated or trained in a particular

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craft Well shmoop covers jobs too but we love careers

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and getting the right career that really works for you

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is pretty much the best investment you could make when [Boy stood outside college]

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it comes to your education Our careers section gives you

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multiple ways to brown jar huge list of potential career

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paths by name by field or by salary plus a

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quiz that's pretty great at predicting where you might shine

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by asking just a short series of questions will be

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able to use your personality, life goals expertise and current

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trajectory to suggest some occupations that might you know float

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your boat unless you tend to get seasick in which [Boat floating in the sea]

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case you might want to steer clear of all seafaring

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related vocations move on but when it comes right down

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to it career wise life wise we just think you

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should aim higher than scrubbing toilets No not scrubbing ceilings [Man scrubbing a toilet]

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either even higher at the same time We're going to

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make sure you keep it real You're a six foot

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tall dude with a vertical leap of twenty inches like

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i am you're simply not going to make it in

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the NBA and no matter how hard you

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try unless you want to be one of those guys

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who's in charge of mopping up sweat while the clock [Man mopping basketball floor]

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is stopped but probably not what you were dreaming of

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If you're allergic to pet dander you may not make

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the best veterinarian think about it and if you pass

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out outside of blood and guts while surgeons probably not [Surgeon passes out]

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in your calling don't waste your time practicing free throws

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hunting flies or dissecting frogs instead to vote that time

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to doing your math homework Guess what Accountant's make a

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great living They don't have to live in constant fear [Man scared by unemployment ghost]

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of being out of a job and they can become

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nationally ranked in the sport of paper triangle football Yeah

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it's ours is like top of seven world is living

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a life of glamour important to you well off So

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is your definition of glamour What you see on mtv

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cribs is that glamour a real life really Or can

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you find the good vibe owning a nice home with

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a debt you can manage and with the ability to

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give your kids everything they could want in life We're [Man gives child a play station]

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not saying you have to give up on your dream

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You just need to be knowledgeable about what to expect

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and you should have a solid plan b suppose you

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put all your eggs in the f sixteen fighter pilot [Egg falls onto F-16 plane]

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basket but find out down the road well that you

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have two week a stomach for the job or that

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drones have replaced humans Yeah well bombs away there Just

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because you encounter a snafu along your journey doesn't mean

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you won't have picked up some valuable skills in the [Woman juggling burgers]

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process Maybe you could put your military know how to

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use in some other capacity or perhaps you can fly

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planes that don't do loop de loops and fly mach

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five Or maybe you'll just sit in a comfortable chair

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and design flight simulators Yeah well if you're feeling queasy [Man designing flight simulators]

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at least you'll be able to get to the facilities

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there quickly Not sure of your dream job well shmoop

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careers will help you figure it out Ask yourself what

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are your priorities Which of the five w's are most

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Important to you wealth wisdom wanderlust wit wire haired fox

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terriers yeah that's a good one The idea is that

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you create for yourself a life worth living according to [People sitting down for a meal]

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an actuarial table you'll likely have at least about sixty

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years from now to live What do you want to

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do with them Hang with us Let us take the

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career bone in your brain Our guide is continually growing

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and we know not every career under the sun is

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currently represented on the site got a career that ain't

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there like grammar police woman let us know we're hiring [Grammar police woman appears]

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it's likely we already have it on their list but

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if not we'll add it and we'll check it twice

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Rest your life is out there waiting for you Isn't

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it time to start thinking about what your future holds

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or at the very least to entertain some final fleeting

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fantasies of becoming a member of delta force You know [Boy given car keys]

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about that If you're ready for the real poop shmoop

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is here for you will hand you the keys to

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success Just try to have the car back in the

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