Career ProjectRachel Day

My two Careers

Illustration: Creating original artwork using any of a wide variety of mediums and techniques, such as painting and sculpture.

Phlebotomist: Draw blood for tests, transfusions, donations, or research. May explain the procedure to the patients and assist in the recovery of patients with adverse reactions.

What are the Duties?

Illustrator: Artists create art to communicate ideas, thoughts, or feelings. they use many tradition methods and technological methods.

Illustrators usually create pictures for books, Magazines, and other publications

and for commercial produces such as textiles, wrapping paper, stationery, greeting cards, and calendars. Increasingly, illustrators are working in digital format, preparing work directly on a computer.

Duties of phlebotomist

Phlebotomist: Perform mobile paramedical exams, complete specimen(i.e. blood, urine etc.) collection/handling, and may complete ECG tracings.

Scheduling applicant appointments, communicating daily with office regarding case status and working on special projects. Participate in large employer health screens aimed at providing a healthier lifestyle across America.

Working Conditions

Artist: Many Artists work in fine art or commercial art studio’s located in office buildings, ware houses, or lofts. Others work in private studios in their homes. Some fine artist share studio space, where they also may exhibit their work. Studio surrounding usually are well lighted and ventilated: however, fine artist may be exposed to fumes from glue, paint, ink, and other materials and to dust or other residue from fillings, splatter paint, or soiled cleaners and other fluids.

Working Conditions cont.

Phlebotomist: military field hospital, prison infirmary, pharmaceutical lab, blood bank, hospital, doctor’s office, public health clinic, hospice center.

It is also dangerous because you are working with peoples blood, and some people can have AID’s or some other disease so you have to be really careful.

Education

Artist: The more education depends on what you want to do with your art. If you want to be well known and make tons of money, you need a lot of education from the best schools. If you want to just sell art on the side, education does not matter if you have raw talent.

Phlebotomist: You go must go to school for least a year to learn the trade and get certified.

Training

Artist: You need to have raw talent and the passion for the arts, if not, then you won’t make it as an artist.

Phlebotomist You have to have active listening, service orientation,

social perceptiveness, speaking, and critical thinking. You must have the abilities of near vision, problem sensitivity, arm-hand steadiness, deduction reasoning, oral comprehension, oral expression, speech clarity, speech recognition.

You must have a license, certification or medical training as required by your state for completing of phlebotomy services.

Must completed a minimum of 100 draws.

Earnings

Range of typical starting salaries for illustrators: $22,274-$30,227.1

An experienced illustrator with several years’ experience may earn $31,818-$47,727

Well established illustrators may earn up to or more a year $63,632.10

Well established illustrators may earn up to or more a year $63,632.10

DEADLINES ARE IMPORTANT!

Earnings cont.

Design studios occasionally employ illustrators on a permanent basis, but the majority of illustrators are freelance, working from home or a small studio and negotiating sales via an agent or directly with clients.

Freelance work, usually paid per illustration, tends to be more lucrative than working for an employer, but agents may take up to 40%. Some illustrators also sell work through “stock houses” who may take a substantial commission.

Luck plays a part. Some illustrators soon discover a market for their talents and so receive plentiful commissions: others may have many rejections before securing work. Workloads may fluctuate, from none to too much,

Pay me be low and irregular, according to the state of the market. Earnings during the first years may be patchy and many illustrators take part time jobs.

Earnings

Phlebotomist Phlebotomists are typically paid hourly

wages, which are affected by geographic region, education, and prior experience. Most phlebotomist makes between $25,177-$30,470 a year.

During 2009, the median entry-level wage for phlebotomists was near $ 10.50 an hour, with hourly wages rising to 13$ after acquiring 5 years of work experience.

Earnings

Phlebotomists employed at small clinics, such as doctors’ offices, typically earn 11$ an hour. Phlebotomists employed at hospitals with 50,000 or more employees usually average between $14.75-17$ an hour.

Since phlebotomists familiarize themselves with laboratory protocols and blood sampling, many return to school to earn associates degrees in medical laboratory technician science. The median hourly wage for these specialists ranges from $17 to $19 an hour.

Phlebotomists employed at government agencies, typically known as medical technician phlebotomists, make near $ 37,000 each year. Phlebotomists promoted to phlebotomy supervisor positions at healthcare clinics and hospitals earn the highest salaries of all phlebotomy professionals, averaging between $39,000- $44, 000 a year.

“perfect choice school” Ferris state University In big rapids, Michigan Ferris state university is a public university that is home to ten

academic colleges, which offer over 180 degree programs. It was founded in 1884 and was listed as the 22nd best public school in the Midwest by U.S. news and world report in 2012.

Ferris state has an art school which they are incorporated, Kendall. It’s a design school, and it’s really affordable. It’s also really easy to get into, people who say it’s hard to, it’s not. It’s just a public college, and it’s part of Ferris state.

If I where to go to Ferris State, I could do my art business at Kendall, and do my phlebotomy at Ferris state, I could do them both. Through Ferris state university’s department of clinical science, respiratory care and health care administration, students can complete certificate and degree programs in health information technology, respiratory care and medical laboratory technology, including a certificate in phlebotomy. The phlebotomy certificate program consists of five courses, including practicum.

Perfect school

CCS-College for creative studies There is a 24% chance you can get into

CCS, and I love competition and a challenge, that is why Ferris state would be great, but not what I want. Ferris state wouldn’t stimulate me enough. I need advancement and competition.

College for creative studies is a private institution that was founded in 1906. Its tuition and fees are $34,375.

Differences

There is a huge difference between a phlebotomist and an illustrator.

Phlebotomist you don’t need much schooling, as an artist if you want to make it you need a great education.

Phlebotomist is guaranteed pay, artist is not always.

As an artist you don’t really have to work with people a lot, you can have an agent that handles that.

Similarities

If I wanted too, I could incorporate the medical field with my art, I could do illustrations for medical books, or medical projects and draw organs and such.

Your working with people a lot. Pay is good. Both inside more then likely.

What I prefer

I honestly would do both, it makes more sense too. I could be a phlebotomist as my side job, and have money coming in while I could do my art and schooling the rest.

But If I could I would just focus on my art, but you are never absolutely sure you are going to make it, I mean I am confident enough that I could, but you never really know. And I don’t want to struggle with money my whole damn life.

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