| The changing career climate can be a result | | | | temperature, rainfall, vegetation and other |
| of technology as much as it is driven by | | | | pertinent data where the particular disease |
| popular demand. While changing your career | | | | has already struck. The mapper then |
| may simply mean that you decide to go in a | | | | correlates this with the rate of infection in |
| different direction or lost your first job | | | | the area and the reports of local medical |
| and were forced to make a change, there are | | | | care professionals and facilities to map the |
| as many times when a changing career climate | | | | disease so far and the spread that they then |
| puts you in a field or job that didnt even | | | | project. |
| exist a few years ago. | | | | |
| | | | Another example of the changing career |
| Here are some examples of jobs created by the | | | | climate is the job of robotic programmer. You |
| changing career arena, jobs that didnt even | | | | can start changing to this career with a |
| exist a decade ago. | | | | 40,000 salary and work up to 100,000 a year. |
| | | | All you really have to have in the way of a |
| The first position is called a disease map | | | | formal degree is a technically relevant |
| specialist, and commands a beginning salary | | | | associates degree and a lot of hands-on |
| of about 40,000 with a current cap of | | | | training in robotics. In this changing career |
| approximately 150,000. This new career | | | | youll be travelling quite a bit to your |
| requires at least a Masters degree and | | | | companys client locations, helping each learn |
| preferably a doctorate in a technical field. | | | | to direct their robot and customizes it to |
| You would as well need to have some | | | | their needs. People skills are important to |
| specialized expertise in one particular | | | | do well at this job. The five primary firms |
| disease. A disease mapper would typically | | | | that are looking for robotic programmers are |
| work for the government, a private or public | | | | Motoman, Fanuc, ABB, Toyota and Panasonic. |
| college or university, organizations such as | | | | |
| the United Nations or some consultant firms. | | | | While taking a robot programmer job would |
| | | | certainly qualify as changing career one who |
| The hours in this changing career field are | | | | has done well at the occupation is generally |
| highly flexible and youd expect to travel to | | | | someone who has prepared himself - albeit |
| many exotic countries and areas. The point of | | | | without the robotic expectation - as an arc |
| disease mapping is the determination of where | | | | welder. Rather than a changing career it |
| particular outbreaks occurred, determine the | | | | really was, for him, somewhat of an evolution |
| pattern and predict where new outbreaks | | | | from his current job - a natural segue. |
| should be expected. While its not entirely a | | | | Robots arent nearly as rare as they were |
| new thought, it is part of the changing | | | | 10-20 years ago. Industrial robots began in |
| career climate because it uses new technology | | | | the auto industry but now are used |
| such as Google Earth. Some who work as | | | | extensively in the medical field and many |
| disease mappers retrieve NASA | | | | manufacturing arena. |
| satellite-procured data to plot pictures of | | | | |