Environmental Health Specialist

  Duties and Responsibilities: Environmental health specialists are skilled people who are in charge of public safety. They do their jobs by making sure that public places/workplaces meet the safety standards. Environmental Health Specialists may work for the federal, state, or local government. These people must risk their own safety to be able to provide public safety. They must test many things in the building to make sure that everything is up to code. These things include testing the quality of the water, food, underground storage tanks, potentially bio-hazardous items, and more. They take samples of everything that can be potentially dangerous and they test their samples at the lab.

  Salary: $55,000-$80,000

  Education: Bachelor's degree, 1-3 years of training/experience

  Demand for this profession: To increase by 11%

  Reflection: Would you like to be one? Why? Why not? I would not like to become a environmental health specialist because it is a career I do not find interesting, I would rather be a doctor than spend the day at a lab testing samples.