Designing your own future is entirely up to you. You can let your
life run you, or you can run your life. The same concept goes for your
employment. You can let your job run you, or you can run your job.
The fact is, you can decide what sort of work you want to do and then
go about getting it. Maybe you’re stuck in a dead-end job that brings
in enough to feed you, but you’re miserable. You would like to make a
lot more of your life. But how? And doing what?
If you have goals in your life and these goals take money to
accomplish, you need to design your life so you are bringing in not only
enough money to pay the rent or mortgage and eat, but also a lot more
than that. You have to be able to put some money aside for the future.
Here’s a suggestion. There’s a field that is expanding greatly and
expected to grow even more between now and 2020. This is the field of
physical therapy. The salaries are good and the benefits are also
excellent. There is never a lack of demand for employees in this field.
Who wouldn’t want to help people with improving their functions at
work and home? Physical therapists do a lot of good. They assist their
patients who have become immobilized or lack strength, flexibility or
endurance. The treatments they give help people and that may fit into
your idea of a great career.
As a physical therapist, your patients would include those who had
been involved in accidents or had disabling diseases. You would learn
how to restore their fitness and health as well as maintain it. Imagine
the satisfaction in helping someone like this?
For this career, a master’s degree from an accredited program would
be the minimum level of education required. But this is a two-year
program. Wouldn’t you be willing to invest a couple of years towards a
stable and prosperous future?
Of course, you could get into the area more rapidly should you decide
to become a physical therapy assistant. You could even take online
courses to achieve this education, and begin a prosperous career right
away.
Mya
