16 Jun 2020

If you’re unclear when it comes to career paths but are certain that you want to help others, better society and gain some good karma points, here are five unique careers that may spike your interest!

1. Acupuncturist

Traditional Chinese Medicine has been around for thousands of years. Its core belief is that everyone's body has natural healing abilities but sometimes it needs some outside help to achieve balance. In Australia, this holistic approach to health has surged in popularity.

Acupuncture improves the body’s functions and promotes the natural self-healing process by stimulating specific parts of your body, commonly referred to as acupuncture points, or acupoints.

If this is something you’re interested in, Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SITCM) will help you develop necessary skills of open-mindedness, commitment to high ideals, and self-fulfillment in order to successfully help others through primary health care.

Their lecturers and clinical supervisors have been involved in Traditional Chinese Medicine for many years, studying in both their own private practices and China itself, offering you tonnes of connections!

2. Art Therapist

Art therapy is an expressive form of therapy that works to improve a person's overall well-being through artistic expression.

Art therapists use it as part of a healing process, helping to reduce a patient's stress and anxiety, improve self-esteem, work through past traumas and express themselves if they struggle to do that verbally.

3. Climate Change Analyst

If you’re passionate about helping the mother nature (and consequently helping us all), being a climate change analyst may be the perfect career for you!

A climate change analyst evaluates effects caused by the changing climate and creates mathematical models to predict environmental changes. They would collect info related to glaciers, ocean temperatures, atmospheric temperature, and greenhouse gas emission levels, amongst a tonne of other scientific data.

Their work is used to educate and inform policy and planning surrounding climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Not all heroes wear capes!

4. Youth Worker

Youth workers support young people facing welfare, behavioural, developmental, social and protection issues, from grief through to alcoholism, homelessness, domestic violence and abuse. They’re there to help youth talk about sensitive topics, safeguard them and aid their development.

The role also involves liaising with government authorities, charities and other industry bodies to help the children the youth worker cares for.

5. Kinesiologist

Australians spend over $1 billion annually on therapies not part of mainstream medicine and kinesiology is one of them. Originating in the 1970’s and fusing Western techniques and Eastern wisdom, kinesiologists monitor muscles to access information about a persons’ wellbeing.

This holistic approach promotes physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health, and using principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, kinesiology looks at what is beyond the symptoms. Pretty cool huh?

So, don’t hesitate to check out Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine here to learn more!