Career Possibilities

ASMA DEBBEK

CAREERS Copy Editor Journalist Lawyer

COPY EDITOR (BOOK EDITOR)

Degree: BA in English, communication, journalism, or creative writing. Qualifications: Language skills, proofreading, and style adherence. Salary: Average of $34,000 to $47,000 a year. Benefits: Health Insurance, publicity, vacation hour, and a safe spot. (Publishing company) Future possibilities: Editor in chief of a magazine and editing for a specific author.

JOURNALIST

Degree: BA in journalism (US), an IGCSE grade A to C , International General Certificate of Secondary Education (International).

Qualifications: Perceptive, fluent in more than one language, and a creative & different writing style.

Salary: Average of $41,000 to $45,000 a year.

Cons: Long and unsociable hours, no vacation hours & no weekends, deadlines, risk of death, disease and injury, and being blamed or portrayed as the enemy.

Benefits (Pros): An exciting and varied job, a mixture of working at a desk and out in the field, insider access, paid travel, publicity, meeting new people, learning new things, writing and witnessing history. Health and life insurance.

Future possibilities: Becoming a JWME (Journalist Writer Managing Editor), news/magazine/newspaper director, translator (2+ languages), or historian.

LAWYER

Qualifications/Degrees: Bachelor's degree, 3 years of law school, state bar exam, character and fitness review, oath, and a license.

Salary: Average of $113,310 a year.

Cons: Limited settings, stress, hectic hours, threats, and the bad reputation that comes with the job.

Benefits (Pros): High paying job, health insurance, vacation hours, and doing something good.

WORK CITED

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