Dietitian

            A career as a dietician provides many different work values such as helping others, security, and family.  As with many other health care careers, helping others is a work value always provided.  In fact, helping others is the job.  A second work value provided by being a dietician is job security.  Similarly, other health care careers offer great job security as the demand for health care professionals increases.  A last work values provided with being a dietician is family.  Unlike many other health care careers, dieticians have fixed hours of work usually during the daytime on weekdays.

            A dietician has an easy line of work that earns a decent dollar, especially considering the little but necessary education as compared to other health care careers.  It is also projected that careers as a dietician are and will be in demand, at least for the next 7 years (“Dieticians…”.)  Lastly, the career offer work values favorable to many people.  Overall, a career as a dietician has many benefits although with higher education and a little more dedication, there are more promising rewards in other health care careers.

Works Cited

“Dieticians and Nutritionists.”  Virginia Career View.  23 April 2009. 

“Athletic Trainers.”  Virginia Career View.  23 April 2009. 

“Internists, General.”  Virginia Career View.  23 April 2009. 

Tilman, Bernhard N.  Atlas of Human Anatomy.  New York: MudPuddle Books, Inc.,  2007.