Aircraft Mechanic

Aircraft Mechanic

Duties and Responsibilities: Keep aircraft in top form. Like automotive mechanics, they repair broken and/or worn out parts.

Salary: $88,064

Education: Need a high school diploma, attend one of the 170 FAR part 147 Aviation Maintenance Technician Schools nationwide, and 18 months of practical experience with either power plants or airframes

Reflection: I would like to be an aircraft mechanic because the job interests me. Also because aircraft mechanics get paid really good money. Last, because I want to be a mechanic working with machines. 

Student Success Statement: Henry David Thoreau

Student Success Statement

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: What I think Henry David Thoreau is trying to say in this quote is everything else fails or can fail but the only thing that can fail is goodness. Therefore, if you are a good person you can’t fail. 

World Records

World Records

1. Tallest Man- Living, Oldest Gymnastics, Highest Scoring Average in NBA

2. Sultan Kosen, Johanna Quuas , Wilt Chamberlain

3. 9 February 2011, 12 April 2 012, Unknown

4. The one world record that fascinates me the most is the highest scoring average in NBA.

5. I am fascinated with this because me as a basketball fan and basketball player it seems impossible that anyone can score 50.4 points per game average.

6. Yes I would like to break a record. What I would want the record to be is make the most points in the NBA.

Student Success Statement: Theodore Hesburgh

Student Success Statement

“My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are easy; you don’t make them because they are cheap; you don’t make them because they’re popular; you make them because they are right.”

Theodore Hesburgh

Reflection: I think that Theodore Hesburgh is telling us that when we make decisions we make them because they are right. There is no other way why we make decisions.

Licensed Practical Nurse

Licensed Practical Nurse

Duties and Responsibilities: Taking vital signs, such as blood pressure, temperature, and weight

Salary: $41,540

Education: High school diploma, bachelor’s degree in nursing, National Council of State Boards of Nursing exam

Reflection: I would but I wouldn’t like to become a licensed practical nurse. The reason why I wouldn’t like to become a licensed practical nurse is because the licensed practical nurses get paid to little. But I would like to become a licensed practical nurse because the job interests me.

Student Success Statement: Joseph Smith

Student Success Statement

“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound (not good).

Joseph Smith

Reflection: What I think the quote means is that we have to make popular sound good and not make popular sound bad.

Home Health Aide

Home Health Aide

Duties and Responsibilities: Monitor patient condition by observing physical and mental condition

Salary: $22,050 per year

Education: Education requirements for home health aides vary depending on their employer

Reflection: I would not like to be a home health aide because the job does not interest me at all. I would also not like to be a home health aide because they get paid too little per year.