Negosentro.com | Possible Career Options for Those who Love Helping Others | While more and more people are looking for careers in the fields related to IT, technology and related branches, there are still many of those who are ready and willing to help others. The options range from healthcare or emergency services to legal business, science and even engineering. If you’re one of those who are ready to dedicate their career to proving help and assistance to those in need, here are some suggestions you need to consider.
Teaching and education
There are few jobs that can help an individual as much as that of a teacher. As students grow and develop, teachers are there to witness that progress and guide it. With most teachers working at primary or secondary school, there are also their colleagues working with pupils and disabilities and special needs, pupil referral units, young offenders’ institutions and hospitals. To be a teacher at such an institution, you can need to get a relevant degree, but if you don’t want to go to university, there are other careers in education you could consider, such as youth work, playwork, childcare or being a teaching assistant.
Medicine
Doctors help people in the most direct way, although there are also other jobs in medicine that allow you to help people. Doctors can work with patients or dedicate your career to medical research that can have a wider impact. As a doctor, you can work in a hospital, GP surgery, outpatient clinic or even with the armed forces and choose from a huge range of branches of medicine, from surgery to psychiatry. However, you need a degree in medicine, which is quite difficult to get.
Nursing
Similarly, working as a nurse, you can work with patients in a range of different settings. There are hospital wards, GP surgeries, or you could visit people in their own homes, within the scope of independent living options NDIS supports or some other arrangement. Also, you could specialize as an adult nurse, children’s nurse, neonatal nurse (working with newborn babies), mental health nurse or learning disabilities nurse. Again, nurses need a degree, through university or a nursing degree apprenticeship.
Psychology
Various types of psychology careers involve helping people. Some are in healthcare (health psychologists, clinical psychologists, counselling psychologists and neuropsychologists), while other careers include educational psychology and forensic psychology. Needless to say, you need a degree in psychology to pursue such a career.
Social work
You can’t underestimate the work social workers do in providing support to individuals and families. They help the elderly with mental health issues or adults with learning difficulties to live as independently as possible. Furthermore, they can work with children in care or families in which there are child protection concerns or manage fostering and adoption processes or even with offenders. They are in charge of activities such as conducting assessments, organizing packages of support to other services, and liaising with other professionals, such as doctors and teachers. Finally, there are non-graduate jobs in this field, providing practical help with tasks such as cooking, washing and dressing.
Public service
If you wish to work for the good of the country and its citizens, why don’t you consider a career in central government, local government and government agencies? Your work can impact thousands or even millions of people, even though you’ll never meet them in person. Some jobs require a degree, while others don’t, so you need to make sure you’re eligible for the job you apply for.
Charity
Working for a charity may include direct interaction with people (or animals) that the charity helps, or you might find yourself working in an office. In either case, your work would be important. The activities that are typically associated with charity work include fundraising, marketing, campaigning, lobbying parliament (trying to influence government policy), accounting, admin or IT. As you can see, there are jobs for both graduates and non-graduates, but to get one you’ll need to do a lot of relevant voluntary work or start your career outside the charity sector and then join once you’ve become an experienced professional.
Law
It’s fair to say that not all jobs in law include helping people. However, there are some that do, and they are most definitely worth considering. Namely, you could work in criminal defense, representing those accused of crime or you could specialize in immigration law and help those claiming asylum in your country. Alternatively, you could pursue a career in child protection law, keeping children safe from neglect or abuse.
These are just some of the most popular jobs that include helping those in need. If you’re intent on making a career in any of these fields, you’ll be rewarded with a great sense of accomplishment and personal satisfaction, but even more importantly you’ll be providing necessary help to those who really need it.
