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Interview with a State Trooper

What do you do for a living? I’m a State Trooper. How would you describe what you do? I enforce the state laws. What does your work entail? Most of my work entails work in traffic accidents, heading patrols on DWI’s, and speed enforcement. What’s a typical work week look like for you? We work [...]

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Interview with a City Manager for Youth Programs

What do you do for a living? I am a program manager for the Department of Youth and Community Development for a major U.S City. How would you describe what you do? That means that we use tax-levied money to support programs throughout the city.  Those programs range from things like the YMCA, initiatives to [...]

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Interview with a US Senator

Senator Boozman of Arkansas was kind of enough to take some time sharing about his career.  You can contact Senator Boozman’s office here. What do you do for a living? I’m one of the United States Senators from the State of Arkansas. How would you describe what you do? What I do is represent the [...]

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Interview with a Business Development Manager for an Electronic Security Integration Company

What do you do for a living? I’m basically in sales. My title is business development manager. I work for an integration firm where we do electronic security for large companies. How would you describe your job to someone? We take care of the electronic security for our clients’ facilities. I tell people I’ve got [...]

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Interview with an Associate Professor

What do you do for a living? I am an associate professor of educational leadership at a public university. How would you describe what you do? I teach educators who would like to become school principals and school superintendents. What does your work entail? It involves everything from recruiting, screening, admitting, and teaching aspiring school [...]

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Interview with a Security Consultant

What do you do for a living? I am security consultant that specializes in regulatory security, more specifically in the energy sector. How would you describe what you do? If it turns on, for example, the gas in your car, the lights in your house, anything like that, it is regulated by the Department of [...]

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Interview with a Columnist/Reporter

What do you do for a living? I’m a reporter and humor columnist for a large daily newspaper. How would you describe what you do? In any given day, I can cover anything - closing of a school health clinic, birth of an elephant at the zoo, political protesters, a medical discovery. It’s fantastically fun for someone [...]

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Interview with a Sign Language Interpreter

What do you do for a living? I am the state judicial sign language interpreter interpreting in state and local courts. How would you describe what you do? I am an officer of the court and there to serve at the pleasure of the court to ensure that communication services are provided between the court [...]

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Interview with a Hospitalist

What do you do for a living? Hospital medicine, and it’s a new division of internal medicine which focuses on patients admitted to the hospital only.  The term hospitalist is now often used to describe this career. How would you describe what you do? I’d just say we take care of adult patients that are [...]

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Interview with a Band Director

What do you do for a living? I am the middle school Band Director at a middle school in the Southeast U.S. Basically I teach sixth through eighth grade band.  And I also teach eighth grade general music. This is my first year of teaching. How would you describe what you do? I teach students [...]

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