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Janee’
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John
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Marissa
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3. 1/5/17 Do Now Volume 0
Brainstorm five skills or talents that you currently possess. Think about interests and talents broadly including school subjects that you like, hobbies, extracurricular activities, etc.

4. The Road Ahead
Write down 3 ways you could develop the 5 skills/talents through education, training, and experiences.

5. Human Capital
- Human capital is the knowledge, talent, experience and skills that people possess
- People are able to invest in their human capital by going to school, pursuing additional training and developing skills
- Workers who develop their human capital are more productive
- Productivity is also increased by using tools and equipment

6. Conversions If only the median yearly salary is given…
DIVIDE the median yearly salary by 52.
If only the median hourly wage is given…
MULTIPLY the median hourly wage by 40.

7. Why more school???!!!!
One very important reason to continue YOUR education after high school is to
1. develop skills
2. increase your human capital
3. increase your lifetime earnings.

9. Median Weekly Earnings
Doctoral: $1,623
Professional: $1,714
Master’s: $1,329
Bachelor’s: $1,108
Associate’s: $777
High School Diploma: $651
Less than High School Diploma: $472

10. Exemplar Responses:
1. The median WEEKLY salary of the career I research is lower than the median WEEKLY salary of other careers that require a similar level of education.
2. I think that career I researched pays more than the median because there is a greater market for web developers than newspaper journalists.
3. Yes, this changes the way I think about the career because….