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Career Possibilities

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.

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Career Possibilities

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  1. Career Possibilities Asma Debbek

  2. Careers • Copy Editor • Journalist • Lawyer

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Work Cited • http://creativepool.com/articles/jobdescriptions/copy-editor-job-description • http://polisci.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&id=180&Itemid=5 • http://whatqualifications.co.uk/WhatQualifications/Journalist • http://how-to-become-a-journalist.blogspot.com/2013/05/pros-and-cons-of-being-journalist.html • http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/paralegal • http://hirealawyer.findlaw.com/choosing-the-right-lawyer/what-are-the-professional-requirements-for-becoming-a-lawyer.html • http://woman.thenest.com/disadvantages-being-lawyer-12118.html

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