RESEARCH AT LEAST 3 CAREERS.

At least 1 career must be from the suggested list at .

The second career can be from there or any other career you may be interested in that
might not have appeared on your list.

The third career must be in the trades area.

Go to the ITA – Industry Trade Authority (Ihttp://www.itabc.ca/) and

Discover Skills BC (http://discoverskillsbc.ca/)

Go to http://alis.alberta.ca/videoplayer/player.aspx and view the video’s for your

suggested occupations.
Answer the following for EACH of the three careers.

CAREER ONE
Name: Ishar Dhillon

Career Name: Anesthesiologist

1. Education required and or recommendations:

-University education
-A Bachelor of Science degree
-Four to five years of specialty residency training
-Two years of subspecialty training

2. Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: UBC

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3. Cost of training in Canadian $ (full program cost for all years): For everything ranging
from Undergrad study, to medical school, to residency, around a whopping $300,000

4. Salary range:

Entry level: $60,789 a year

Average: $300,000 a year

5. Job description: Anesthesiologists are in charge handling surgical patients, and their
pain relief during surgery. They administer anesthetics, ad adjust them to meet the
patient’s body requirements: they also monitor patients’ vital signs

6. There are 472 Anesthesiologists in BC

7. Employment prospects: The prospects appear to be good seeing as the human

population will increase more and more, meaning there will always be a growing demand
for medical careers.

8. Related Jobs (list at least 3):

 Anesthesiologist Assistant
 Pharmacist
 Surgeons

9. Skills or characteristics required: Working with technological equipment, machinery,

service, care, management, analysis, information handling, business, finance managing,
communication, health services, mathematics, and science.

10. Disadvantages of occupation: Required to work around the clock, can be sued if
something goes wrong with patient, patient won’t remember you so you will get no thank
you’s, and they’re paid less as doctors and surgeons over-shadow them

11. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: I love to help
people regardless of getting a thank you or not, and really enjoy math, and science

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11. What courses and grades are needed to enter this occupation?: The courses required
for high school would be: Math 11/12 (pre-calc/calc) Biology 12, Physics 11/12, and
English. Grades-wise you’d need to be at the top of your game and have an A in most,
and or all of your classes.

12. Working conditions: Anesthesiologists typically work in hospital operating rooms,

outpatient surgery facilities, private practices, academic medical centers, and the military

13. Typical hours of work: Anesthesiologists work around the clock, so there’s no exact
number of hours you work. Though typically it is expected that they work around 40-60
hours a week, giving them very little time to breathe

14. Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: The thought of helping
people, while learning more about math and science, as well as a decent pay made this
job stand out to me

15. What are the future trends of this occupation: There is said to be more openings in the
future, and will become more of a shift job (not around the clock), and pay will lessen do
to the increase of interest in the career.

16. Go to Work BC Website (http://www.workbc.ca/) and Education Planner

(https://www.educationplannerbc.ca/) list 2 points of information you felt were important
and were not covered.

1. How you’re constantly working around the clock

2. Does not evaluate the extreme stress of the job enough

CAREER TWO
Name: Ishar Dhillon

Career Name: Video Game Designer

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17. Education required and or recommendations: A college diploma in commercial or
graphic arts, computer graphics or animated design is required, and so is experience or
training in multimedia design at a post-secondary, college or technical institution, and
creative ability and artistic talent, as demonstrated by a portfolio of work.

18. Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: Van Arts, and VCAD

19. Cost of training in Canadian $ (full program cost for all years): Around $22,000.00

20. Salary range:

Entry level position: $38,000
Median Wage: $75,750

21. Job description: Graphic arts designers help with conceptualizing a task, deciphering
structure determinations or representations, setting up the page make-up, spread out
and lettering, and getting ready creation materials for press, electronic or sight and
sound distributing. They are utilized by distributing, correspondences, promoting,
advertising, printing and sight and sound foundations, and by TV and film generation
organizations. They may likewise act naturally utilized.

In BC, there isn’t any record of exactly how many video game designers there are, but I
do know that there are over 170 game development studios in Vancouver

22. Employment prospects: As the interest in video games increases, prospects will be very
good

23. Related Jobs (list at least 3):

 Video Game Programming

 Video Game Testers
 Computer Programmers

24. Skills or characteristics required: Working with Technological Equipment and

Machinery, Analysis, Creative Expression, and communication

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25. Disadvantages of occupation: Incredible competition with other companies/designers,
and crunch time (when you have to push a game out ASAP to keep the hype up)

26. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: I love playing
video games, and have always had an interest in coding, I also love to draw and come
up with my own character concepts.

27. What courses and grades are needed to enter this occupation?: Typically in high school,
nothing is really required besides graduation, but you will need to take university art and
programming classes, which will require A’s

28. Working conditions: Video game designers typically work in cubicles, and sometimes
their own office. They typically work the normal 40 hour a week, unless a game needs to
be pushed out ASAP and have a lot of work to do.

29. Typical hours of work: around 40 hours a week, unless a game hasn’t met deadline and
needs to be finished ASAP.

30. Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: Ever since I was a kid,
video games helped me get through some tough times. I idolized some of gaming’s
biggest mascots like Mario, and thanks to Nintendo, my childhood was great. One of my
dreams has been to be a video game designer, and maybe one day even for them. In
fact, I love the idea so much, I am doing it for my capstone.

31. What are the future trends of this occupation: As more advanced technology is pushed
out, there will be more platforms to release games on which means a higher demand,
more video game designers, and more job opportunities, so the future trends look to be
very good.

32. Go to Work BC Website (http://www.workbc.ca/) or Education Planner

(https://www.educationplannerbc.ca/) and list 2 points of information you felt were
important and were not covered.

1.

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2.

TRADES CAREER
Name: Ishar Dhillon

Career Name: Electrician

33. Education required and or recommendations: completion of secondary school, and

completion of a 4-5 year apprenticeship program is required

34. Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: BCIT, and Sprott Shaw College.

35. Cost of training in Canadian $ (full program cost for all years): $5000-$10,000
depending on the school

36. Salary range:

Entry Level: $55,000
Median: $66,300

37. Job description: Circuit repairmen spread out, introduce, collect, test, investigate, and fix
electrical wiring fictures, and so on. They can be utilized by electrical temporary workers
and support divisions of structures and different foundations, or they could simply act
naturally utilized.

38. There are 86,000 electricians in Canada.

39. Employment prospects: statistics estimate that around 7230 electricians will be needed
in BC over the next decade, so the prospects are high

40. Related Jobs (list at least 3):

 Electrical Engineers
 Electrical Drafters
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 Electrical Engineering Technicians

41. Skills or characteristics required: Building, analysis, information handling, business,

finance management, engineering, technology, law, and public safety

42. Disadvantages of occupation: Incredibly risky job, could cost you your life.

43. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: Being an
Electrician is essentially problem-solving using math and science, and I’d love to have a
job like that.

44. What courses and grades are needed to enter this occupation? : Must finish high school,
finish 4-5 years of apprenticeship program.

45. Working conditions: Incredibly dangerous, indoors, outdoors, homes businesses,

factories, and construction sites. Work a lot in small spaces, standing and kneeling gets
incredibly tiring.

46. Typical hours of work: They work a typical 40 hours a week

47. Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: I enjoy math, and science,
and helping people (as I’ve said 2 times already) is what I like to do, so this career would
be perfect.

48. What are the future trends of this occupation: In the future, this career will have even
more openings as technology is becoming incredibly advanced, and people will always
need help, but there is a chance that AI may replace electricians, but that is very unlikely
to be any sooner than a century or two.

49. Go to ITA http://www.itabc.ca/ or the Discover Skills BC Website

http://discoverskillsbc.ca/ and list 2 points of information you felt were important and
were not covered.

1.

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2.

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