ForensicsExpert

= =

=Forensics Expert- Shane Houston= =Job Description:= This job has been used throughout many decades as to solve crimes and to finally pinpoint who commited a murder and multilple other crimes. People who do this job are hard-workers who barely get by on around 4 hours of sleep, but yet still have the tenacity to want to solve the crime. This job is highly stressful and thought provoking all at the same time. The people who want to work in this field need to be prepared for that. The typical workday would consist of getting there at whenever your shift begins (Day or Night) and you would work on cases that are current and some cases that have been reopened or some that have been classified as cold. The day also consists of going out after collecting enough evidence and trying to catch the person that the evidence points to doing the crime. You would work with the Police Force, SWAT, and sometimes NCIS. =Personality Characteristics= The personality characteristics of a person who wants to do this job are Hard-working, Willing to be sleep-deprived, and Consistent. The hard-working individual is cherished in every work enviroment but if you are here, you can definitly excel. Willing to be sleep-deprived is self explanatory, but nonetheless if you work the night shift most times your hours can be from Ten pm to around Nine in the morning, which not a lot of people would like because this is when they want to be sleeping. Lastly, Consistency is a value much respected in this field, because they know if you do a great job the first time, you will do it again. This job describes me very well. I am hardworking when I love the subject, I am an insomniac, and I like consistency.

Working Conditions
Working Conditions for this job are very high. The workplace would look as follows, those of you who have seen the show CSI definitly know what I am talking about, there is a Detained Suspect Room, and a Morgue, and multiple labs, and Fingerprint and Foreign Chemical Analysis labs for your use. The place I would want to work is either in Handwriting Analysis or Fingerprint Analysis. The effects on my health would vary from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome to migraines. The biggest complaint workers have is the long hours as previously mentioned some work between 10 pm and 9 am.

Places of Employment
The government could use my potential skills in this field in places such as CSI, or NCIS, or any Criminal Investigative Service. There are more of these jobs in the following cities, Miami, New York City, Norfolk, Las Vegas. The most local job in which I would be doing the following things is probably somewhere in southern New York, or even Albany.

Job Outlook
The job outlook for this job looks very promising in the future and it is a completely man-required job. Maybe sometime in the far far future, there will be machines that will replace us but not right yet. Government projections say that we will have up to a 12% increase in this job over the next 2 years.

=Salary= Salary for this job consists of around $30,000 dollars if you are just starting out, about 5 years into it however you could be making towards $52,000.

=Education and Training= Usually those entering this field are required to have their: AA/AS Associate of Science Degree GRAD Graduate Program BA/BS Bachelor of Arts or Science Degree. These all are required for those wishing to be a CSI or Forensic Expert.

Thank you for your time. Shane Houston