INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

COAL MINER

• Coal Worker
• Wages: Small children- two pennies a day. Adults- paid in coal script.
• Working Conditions- Dangers of roof collapses, explosions, and deadly gas.
• Job Duties: Mining coal from mine shafts
• Experience & qualifications: No experience or qualifications were required.

FACTORY WORKER

• Wages: Men earned 10-15 shillings per week. Women earned 5 shillings per week. Children earned 1 shilling per week.
• Working conditions: Conditions were very bad. Factories were very dirty and very dangerous. Workers risked losing their limbs and their lives.
• Job duties: People work the machines that spin the cotton, and children would be the ones to get under and between these machines to fix them, and to pick up dropped pieces of cotton.
• Experience & Qualifications: Little to no experience/qualifications.

METEOROLOGY

• Wages: About $94,087 annually. Higher end wages of about $141,211 annually.
• Job duties: Analyze meteorological data collected from satellites and radar to prepare reports and forecasts for the public.
• Experience and Qualifications: May require an advanced degree and at least 5 years of related experience. (Masters is preferable).
• Working conditions: Working conditions aren't bad, though in times of sever weather, things could get a bit hectic.

ER PHYSICIAN

• Wages: Median salary is about $260,000 annually. Upper end wages of around $350,000 annually.
• Working conditions: Working conditions are clean, but you're on your feet the whole day. Shifts can sometimes vary greatly, and you have to be prepared for anything because every patient is different,
• Job duties: Their job is to stabilize patients and ship them off to the proper medical departments. They're trained to treat a little bit of everything, and to make quick and accurate decisions.
• Educational requirements: During your undergraduate education, your must take premed courses before getting into medical school. Med school takes four years, followed by several years of an emergency medicine training program.

POLICE OFFICER

• Wages: About $52,529 annually.
• Working conditions: It can be as simple as a calm patrol day, to a shootout in a bad neighborhood. Working conditions could be different every day.
• Job Duties: A police officers job is to enforce the laws, and keep peace in the area.
• Experience & Qualifications: The minimum required education is a high school diploma, though more police departments are requiring that you have at least 1-2 years of college coursework, or an associates degree.

SUMMARY

• Having a career today is a big deal. You get paid more, but you're also paying more due to inflation, and working conditions have improved extensively. Having a job during the industrial revolution was also a big deal. You were paid much less compared to today, though items were also a lot cheaper. Working conditions have greatly improved in today's era because you can take paid sick days, be compensated for injuries at work, and new rules and regulations have been passed to help with workers safety, as opposed to the industrial revolution era, where none of this was in place.
• I chose meteorology as my number one career because I've always had a passion for weather. It's something that, when I'm older, want to work with everyday. My dream would be to work at the NWS in Norman, Oklahoma, where storms tend to be the most exciting. I plan on obtaining this goal by working hard and keeping up my grades. Hopefully my hard work and dedication will pay off, and I'll be able to get into Oklahoma State University, which is the college I want to get into. Unfortunately, I don't really have a backup career, so hopefully everything turns out okay and pans out the way I want it too.