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.  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.

JOURNALIS T  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.

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.

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