The median annual wage for athletic trainers was $45,630 in May 2016. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $30,300, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $69,140. Most athletic trainers work full time. Athletic trainers who work with teams during sporting events may work evenings or weekends and travel often so the wage is earned (“Athletic”). The environment that athletic trainers work in varies but it is mostly in the same areas. Many athletic trainers work in educational settings, such as colleges, universities, elementary schools, and secondary schools. Others work in hospitals, fitness centers, or physicians’ offices, or for professional sports teams. Some athletic trainers work with military, with law enforcement, or with performing artists. Athletic trainers may spend their time working outdoors on sports fields in all types of weather …show more content…
This test has six categories that you can fall under, which include doers, thinkers, creators, helpers, persuaders, and organizers. After completing this test, I found out that I was mainly a doer, a helper, and an organizer. I think that these three types fit me very well, because I love to exercise or compete in athletics and sports, like a doer would. I also like to help others with injuries, like helpers, and also I like to be precise and accurate, like organizers. Some careers that match up with the results I got are teacher, athletic trainer, and veterinarian (“Interest”) I also used career clusters as an additional research method for this essay. Career clusters are organizational tools that link education with business through 16 career areas. When I took the Career Cluster Interest Survey, the top three career clusters of interest that I got were physical therapists, industrial engineering technician, and sports medicine physician (“Interest”). I disagree with one of these career choices and that is the industrial engineering technician. But the other two match up well with my