Careers in Focus: Family and Consumer Sciences is a unique text that prepares students for the workplace while exposing them to the wide-ranging careers in the field of Family and Consumer Sciences! Especially designed for career exploration classes in Family and Consumer Sciences, this colorful text is also well suited for FCCLA programs, cooperative education classes, and work-based learning programs. The first three parts of the text are designed to help students choose careers, find jobs, and achieve success on the job. The last part of the book explores the many career areas related to Family and Consumer Sciences within the five broad fields of business and marketing, education and communications, human services, science and technology, and the arts.

This book emerged from shared interests and conversations over many years between former Ph.D. chemists, now leaders in science policy and industry who all share a commitment to public service. While the training of Ph.D. chemists is generally targeted at a research career, the opportunities that lie beyond the degree are much more diverse. Nine Ph.D. chemists who chose careers outside of academia describe their career choices and reflect on advice they have looking back on their career path for those just starting theirs. If the stories in these pages speak to you: Welcome to the family.

In Your Brain at Work, David Rock takes readers inside the heads—literally—of a modern two-career couple as they mentally process their workday to reveal how we can better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our daily lives. Rock, the author of Quiet Leadership and Personal Best, shows how it’s possible for this couple, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today’s overwhelming work environment but succeed in it—and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.

Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.

Describes such jobs as nurse anesthetist, school nurse, transplant coordinator, neonatal nurse, and emergency nurse.