Compare And Contrast Two Different Careers: Brian Tracey

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“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the events,” Brian Tracey, an american motivational speaker. In order to determine a possible career choice for the future, research has been conducted to compare and contrast two different careers. Even though an electrician and an actor have similarities, they also have many differences from each other.
A career as an electrician requires hard work, but the career offers many rewards with it. Job duties and responsibilities include, reading blueprints or technical diagrams, installing and maintaining wiring control, and identifying electrical problems using technical devices. The work environment includes, working in homes, businesses, and in construction
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In the United States there are 628,800 bases for electricians. But the change of employment of jobs is 85,900 for electricians. Many electricians do harder jobs like fixing a whole entire house, that takes around 2 months just to build a 1 story house. They also do installation, construction, and many more. For an actor they mostly create their own background out of cardboard, wood, and paint. Actors also have to change things to make that role possible like gaining weight, and changing their hair color. For the employment, there is 69,000 people so far this year.

“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the events,” said Brian Tracey, an American motivational speaker. After examining both occupations, a career as an actor proves to be the better option because, even though it does pay a lot. But once you be an actor for a certain amount of time you could have more money than when you started with. An actor has many parts to it but i’m really focused on being an actor on TV. Preparing for a career may seem very complicated but having the right skills and education will make it easier to get what a person wants in their

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