Career/ Budget ProjectA job is defined as something you do to earn money. A career is an occupation

or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework.

Examples: Business (Corporate or Small), Teaching, Doctor (pediatrician, surgeon, dentist, etc), Marine Biologist, Mechanic, Military, Restaurant Chef, Hair

Stylist, etc

For the next several weeks, you will be researching various careers that interest you. Of these you will be picking a career to research in depth. This should be a profession that interests you as it is a major part of your life from the focus of your education and training to how you are going to spend your time working throughout your life. However, this should also be able to provide you with the necessities of life (i.e. food, housing, transportation) Therefore, we will also be spending time researching salaries, incomes, and expenses that go along with life in the U.S.

Check points:

Assignment Grade

Pick a career

Salary

Budget

Career Research

Situational Budget

Career Project Rough Draft

Presentations/ Final Draft

Week 1: CareersThis week you will be looking at careers. You must start by completing the interest

survey below. Once you are done it will give you a list of careers that could be for you. From this list you need to pick three to look at more in depth. By Friday, you must

choose one career. **Note: the final choice does not have to be from the survey**

Interest Survey:Using the survey provided on the next pages, fill in the following table. Once you have your totals listed for each box, list the three boxes that have the most checks. I will then provide you with the categories that each number connects to.

Box 1: Box 2: Box 3: Box 4:

Box 5: Box 6: Box 7: Box 8:

Box 9: Box 10: Box 11: Box 12:

Box 13: Box 14: Box 15: Box 16:

Top 3 :

___ ___ ___

_________________ ________________ ________________

Based on the three categories, conduct research on possible individual careers for those categories for you to then choose from.Category 1:

Category 2:

Category 3:

Final Choice:Using the interest survey you have now completed, and/or prior knowledge of

career options, pick one career that most interests you.

________________________

Week 2: SalariesLooking at the career you picked last week, you will be researching the average salary.

Using this you can determine the amount of money you will have per month.

Step 1: Average Annual Salary: _________________

Step 2: Monthly Salary: ______________

Step 3: Taxes: ____________To calculate amount owed per month for taxes, take your monthly salary and multiply by (Insert percentage).

Step 4: Monthly Income: _____________To calculate actual income per month, subtract your amount for taxes from your monthly salary.

Week 3: BudgetUsing our monthly income from week three, we will be creating a monthly budget using the form below. You will need to determine how much you have available for spending

after housing, groceries, gas, car payment, savings, etc. Your final total cannot end below zero.

**Note: as you are researching make sure you are looking for colorado specific averages**

Rent/ House payment:Car payment:

Groceries for month:Gas for month:

Health Insurance:Car Insurance:

Home/ Renter’s Insurance:Utilities:

Phone bill: Savings account:

Retirement:

Total Bills: (Add all above amounts) ________________

Final total= Monthly income - Total Bills

Extra: Did you have any leftover? If so how do you plan to use it? Savings account? Vacation? Vacation fund?

Week 4: Career ResearchThis week we will be focusing on our chosen careers. You will need the following

information for your final project as well as any other information you find. You will need to submit your information on a google doc by the end of the week.

● Description of Career, this could include skills, responsibilities, tasks you would perform, etc

● Specific position or field within your career. (Ex. Medical Profession as a Pediatrician)

● Why you picked this career? What interests you?● Why would you be a good fit for this career?

● Where will you have to work to have that career?● What education level and type will you need to obtain your career?

Week 5: Budget ChallengeEach of you will draw a challenge card. This week your task is to assess how your

challenge affects your monthly budget.

Challenge: ___________________________________________________________

That’s unfortunate. What is your plan next month to help? How many months

That’s good news! Explain

how.

NoYes

Sorry to hear that. Will you be able to cover it this month?

Congratulations!! How do you plan to use the money?

ExpenseIncome

How does this affect your monthly budget?

Week 6: ProjectsThis week you will be building your projects using adobe spark. These projects will be a cumulative summary of the work you did this quarter regarding your career and budget

and should include the following information.

1. Research from week 52. Summary of monthly budget from week 4

This should include overall cost of bills, extra for spending, amount available for savings and or travel, etc3. What you learned from this project

You will be graded based on the provided rubric.

**Due this week: By the end of the week you must submit a rough draft of your project to the google classroom.

Career ProjectTeacher Name:

Student Name:     ________________________________________

CATEGORY 4 3 2 1Content Content is

thorough, descriptive, and explains choice of career. All topics listed in project description are noted.

Content is complete and supports career choice. Most topics listed in project description are noted.

Content is incomplete. Few topics listed in project description are noted.

Content is lacking support of career choice. Most topics listed in project description are not noted.

Text - Font Choice & Formatting

Font formats (e.g., color, bold, italic) have been carefully planned to enhance readability and content.

Font formats have been carefully planned to enhance readability.

Font formatting has been carefully planned to complement the content. It may be a little hard to read.

Font formatting makes it very difficult to read the material.

Use of Graphics

All graphics are attractive (size and colors) and support the theme/content of the presentation.

A few graphics are not attractive but all support the theme/content of the presentation.

All graphics are attractive but a few do not seem to support the theme/content of the presentation.

Several graphics are unattractive AND detract from the content of the presentation.

Spelling & Grammar

Presentation has no misspellings or grammatical errors.

Presentation has several misspellings and/or grammatical errors.

Presentation has many grammatical errors and/or misspellings.

Grammatical and/or spelling errors make the presentation difficult to read and follow.