Health promotions degree

Hi guys, i graduate in 2013 and am afraid this degree will be useless in terms of getting a job. i did a job search and not many jobs are looking for "health educators" even schools. My school offer the state test so i can become a health educator specialist after my bachelors.

is it worth it? i want a job when i graduate!!

Katy, I suspect that if you follow your degree to the end you may need to be willing to relocate to find a job. Surely there's a pretty broad societal need for health educators, but there's also a broad societal need for social workers (a career not likely to pay very much in the best of times). I think you need to to contemplate what you want to be doing and where you want to be in 10 years, not just 3. I also suggest that you try to think "out of the box". What is special about you? Do you just love the woods and hiking? Are you fearless? Do you have an ability to connect with all kinds of people immediately? Some people find all they ever want as a forest ranger. One person my brother knew and who was not afraid of heights made an enormous salary working only part of the year ... replacing lights on smokestacks and radio towers (actually not dangerous if you're careful, but not a job many people are willing to do). Another makes a great living cutting trees which are leaning the wrong way or diseased on residential and commercial properties (this job is actually more dangerous than climging radio towers). If you can connect with people there are all kinds of opportunities in sales -- could dovetail with your interest in health education (e.g., pharmaceutical sales).

Ah, sorry. I see you're IN Katy, Texas, but that you're NOT a "Katy".

Sporkman,

Thank you so much for your input!! Ideally i would looooovvvve a traveling job that would would allow me to be a health education lecturer. Basically do seminars, ect.

Im going to do prereqs in physical therapy alongside this degree and hopefully get into PT school if it doesn't workout.

i read about all these people getting exercise science, health promotion/education, public health who are unable to find jobs!!

esa in Katy, Texas said: Hi guys, i graduate in 2013 and am afraid this degree will be useless in terms of getting a job. i did a job search and not many jobs are looking for "health educators" even schools. My school offer the state test so i can become a health educator specialist after my bachelors.

is it worth it? i want a job when i graduate!!

What is health promotion

esa in Katy, Texas said: Hi guys, i graduate in 2013 and am afraid this degree will be useless in terms of getting a job. i did a job search and not many jobs are looking for "health educators" even schools. My school offer the state test so i can become a health educator specialist after my bachelors.

is it worth it? i want a job when i graduate!!

For those Master degree Healthcare professionals, who does not have a position in health promotion or health education and who reside in either Texas or Oklahoma (or who are relocating to Texas or Oklahoma soon), the Navy is offering an AWESOME opportunity. Or Healthcare Master degree student is offered this same opportunity, plus the Navy will pay for you to go to school fulltime and provide you a monthly salary. Once you finish the degree, you will be sworn in as a Medical Services Officer.

If you are interested in this opportunity and you either live in Texas or Oklahoma (or will be relocating to Texas or Oklahoma soon), please contact Chief Marcel Blanfort at: marcel.blanfort@navy.mil

You can let him know that you received this information on this post and he will know exactly who referred you and/or you can reference my username: txnurstud in Desoto, TX.

I wish you the best in exploring this opportunity because I have started the process and am extremely excited to have this opportunity available to me.

As an experienced health educator I strongly encourage you to get your personal trainer certification as well. It will make easier for you to find work in the corporate, government, and non profit setting. Even if you don't work as a personal trainer it will open more doors for and allow for more job security than the CHES (which in my opinion is useless).
That is if you want to avoid going back to school to become a nurse, PT, etc!
If you go to graduate school, I strongly recommend epidemiology or International health with a focus on refugee health/disaster relief. Don't waste your time on anything else.

esa in Katy, Texas said: Hi guys, i graduate in 2013 and am afraid this degree will be useless in terms of getting a job. i did a job search and not many jobs are looking for "health educators" even schools. My school offer the state test so i can become a health educator specialist after my bachelors.

is it worth it? i want a job when i graduate!!

Working for the state has great benefits! I say go for it!

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Sad but true. I was a health educator but I am making my way out! The job opportunities are few and far in between. The hospital staff I worked with kept reminding me they preferred to have a nurse who could do both health education and clinical care. Doctors, nurses and other hospital staff constantly asked me, so.. what is a health educator again?

The way I see it, the best way to succeed at this profession right now is to pair health education with a clinical degree: nursing, nutrition, kinesiology.. anything really.