Teen Challenges

Teen Challenges 

What are several major challenges teens deal with today? 

1. School
2. Personal Problems At Home 
3. Depression
4. Anxiety
5. Stress

What are one or two challenges you are dealing with today? 

At the moment the challenge i'm dealing with is school, it's always a struggle to wake up and get ready for school and actually learning something at school. 

What are you doing about them? 

Nothing because I can't do anything about it. 

How does being a CTR student help you overcome any challenge you may face? 

It helps because I make the right choice even if the right choice doesn't feel like the right choice at the moment 

How can you help other teens overcome their challenges? 

I would give them advice on how to deal with them

Reflection: What do you think is the greatest need that teens have today? 

I think the greatest need is motivation. 

Teacher

Teacher 

Duties and Responsibilities: 

Create lesson plan and teach those plans to the entire class. 

Salary: 

$52,006 - $75,302

Education: 

Bachelor's degree is the minimum requirement. 

Demand:

Fallen 35% in the last five years 

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? 

No because it doesn't really pay well and it's a lot of pressure especially when you're working with little kids. 

Pediatrician

Pediatrician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Providing medical care to people ranging in age from newborn to young adults. Responsible for examining, diagnosing and treating children with a wide variety  of injuries and illnesses 

Salary: 

$205,610

Education:

Many complete bachelor's degree programs and then go pursue medical degree from an accredited medical school after submitting MCAT scores. 

Demand:

Projected to grow by 24% by 2020 

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one?

Yes but it's hard to become one because you have to do a lot of years of college. 

Pathologist

Pathologist

Duties and Responsibilities: 

Examine bodily fluids such as blood or urine or tissues from biopsies

Salary:

$302,610

Education: 

Bachelor's degree, then a medical degree, either an M.D or D.O. Extensive additional education and training is required, including four to five years of training in anatomic.

Demand: 

Twice as many forensic pathologists are needed to fill this demand. 

 

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be this? 

Yes I think I would like to be one because they make a lot of money but it takes a long time to become one.