Careers you’ve never heard of.
Every one of these employs a serious number of people who support families doing it. None of them get mentioned at school, which is the entire problem this site exists to fix.
Nothing here is a novelty job. The test for inclusion is whether several thousand people in a developed economy make a living at it — obscure passes, unviable does not.
- Nursing & Allied Health
Clinical Technology & Devices
Operating and maintaining the machines that keep patients alive.
e.g. Orthotist & Prosthetist, Paramedic, Radiographer - Diagnostics, Laboratory & Public Health
Laboratory & Diagnostic Science
The testing behind roughly seventy per cent of clinical decisions.
- Diagnostics, Laboratory & Public Health
Health Data & Biostatistics
Statistics applied to trials, outbreaks and health systems.
- Diagnostics, Laboratory & Public Health
Genetics & Genomics
Inherited disease, sequencing, and counselling families through results.
- Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science
Actuarial Science
Pricing risk for insurers and pension funds. Exam-driven, and few people finish.
e.g. Actuary - Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science
Operations Research & Optimisation
Making large systems — logistics, scheduling, networks — measurably more efficient.