6 Unusual High-Paying Careers according to Yahoo!

I stumbled upon this when I checked my email and I just want to share it to all of you guys, below is the article written by Gabby Hyman, FindTheRightSchool.com.

American job titles and responsibilities are constantly morphing to suit the economic and cultural transitions of our madcap age. Euphemisms are often the way recruiters dress up old job titles to narrow the field to specialists. A "hash slinger" is now termed a "culinary resource professional." Kidding aside, today's workers are often forced by marketplace realities to undergo at least one rapid job change over their adult lives. Many enroll at online colleges and trade schools to garner fresh skills that fit their experience and previous training.

Some of these hot new careers you may have never heard of are "green-collar" jobs. These jobs are on the rise as the business world responds to dramatic increases in energy costs and environmental regulation. And while disposable income seems threatened by a roller-coaster economy, other new careers are springing up to suit those who have cash to spend.

Here are six hot career fields you may not have heard of:

Eco Tourism Director
Traditional hospitality careers are increasingly marching to the ecotourism drumbeat. According to the International Ecotourism Society, ecotourism is growing at three times the rate of traditional vacationing, increasing annually up to 30 percent. If you're just preparing for the field, seek an associate's degree in hospitality, travel, or tourism. If you're already aboard, why not train to manage a hotel, bed and breakfast, spa, or resort with a graduate degree in business or hospitality? The majority of lodging managers are self-employed professionals. Top earners in 2007 averaged $83,240 for the year.

Professional Hacker
Ever hear of a certified ethical hacker? That's the professional IT certification for a computer scientist that works as a security specialist, forensic investigator, or network defense architect for corporations, the government, and law enforcement agencies to help prevent hacking or to track down perpetrators. To get into the field, you'll need more than the hacking skills you tweaked together in your garage. Begin by earning a bachelor's degree in computer science or information technology. You can get additional online college training in network security. The top 50 percent of computer scientists earned between $97,970 and $123,900 in 2007.

Pet Psychologist
Don't be so shocked. Even Sparky sometimes needs help to keep from gnawing through the neighbor's bed of prized roses. Once the local vet has ruled out physical ailments that can contribute to rude pet behavior, people who love their animals may need to call in a trained, certified behaviorist or pet psychologist. As with human patients, pets can be analyzed and taught to act contrary to destructive impulses. There are even certified applied animal behaviorists. To get into the field, you'll need a master's or doctorate degree in psychology, preferably with additional work in zoology and animal behavior. Salaries vary greatly by locale, but can be upwards of $90,000 a year.

Conservation Consultant
There are companies who are greatly concerned with increasing energy efficiency. And there are those with a conscience, striving to reduce their carbon footprint. When Yahoo! decided to go carbon-neutral by 2007, they hired a director of energy strategy and climate change. Combine your thirst for conservation with an engineering degree to prepare for this thriving field. The U.S. Labor Department predicts a hefty 25 percent increase in environmental engineers during the 2006-2016 decade. In 2007, the top 50 percent earned between $70,000 and $106,000.

Fashion Consultant/Personal Shopper
Among those who care about their appearance, many are born with amazing taste; some have to work for it. Fashion designers and consultants help those who can afford personal attention to transform their image. You can be the one to consult on hair, makeup, and fashion--and then be the one to take your clients shopping. Get career training through an associate's or bachelor's degree program in fashion design. Top earners in the fashion design trades in 2007 took home $121,640 on average.

Mobile Experience Architect
The cool streaming videos and eye-popping CD covers that get delivered to the screens of millions of cell phones and PDAs each hour are designed to make you spend money. Information architects create the structure and mind-manipulating patterns (site maps) of each mobile delivery. You'll need to learn about marketing, strategy, and user testing through a degree program in computer science, Web design, or business. There's even an IT certification for professional mobile architects. Salaries range into six figures.

As our world rapidly evolves, it's no surprise that the work landscape is evolving as well. You can prepare for and keep up with the changes by updating your training and credentials.

Gabby Hyman has created online strategies and written content for Fortune 500 companies including eToys, GoTo.com, Siebel Systems, Microsoft Encarta, Avaya, and Nissan UK.

The story of the candy cane

Ever wonder why we have the candy cane?, why it only comes out during christmas? and why it is colored the way it is?. I stumbled upon this tale when I went to church this December 24, 2008 and I just wanted to share the tale to all of you.

It was one evening in a small community, it was pouring heavy rains that evening so all of the people where in their own homes staring outside during the pouring of the rain, when one man who rode in a hose, entered their community and stopped in front of an old shop. The man, stood in front of the old shop and then said "This will do", upon saying that the man went in the old shop, some of the people wonder why did that man entered that old shop and who he was.

The early next day, they all heard strange noises coming out of the old shop, where the man came in but none of them dare talk to the man, nor come near the shop. Some of them speculate on what the man was doing in the shop, one of them thinks that he is going to open up a barbershop, the other one thought that he was a dress maker and he will make great clothes for them and the last one thought that he was going to open up a hardware store so that they can get new equipments for their farming, but none of them dare to come near the shop.

They were all thinking and speculating of things, until a small girl named lucy can't stand it anymore, she went into the store and she greeted the man "Hi, I'm Lucy do you need help?" and the man said "Yes, I do need help" and questioned lucy "Are you hard working?, can you handle carrying heavy things?" and lucy replied "Yes, I'm hardworking and can handle anything", with these said the man smiled and lucy hanged her coat in the coat hanger and she then proceed to unpack the box near to her.

To her surprise, lucy found jars of different kinds some round, some with lids and some without lids, some odd looking jars and some tall jars but all of them have something in common they are all clear jars, lucy began to wonder and she asked the man "Your selling jars?" and the man answered "No I'm not selling jars, but you will know what we will sell when I open up this crate", he was referring to the crate that he is currently opening with a crowbar, the crate was huge even bigger than the other crates that were in the shop.

When the crate opened, it was full of different kinds of candies, candies that are round in shape, sweet in taste, sour in taste and the likes, some foreign made and some locally made, lucy was suprised to see so much candies for she not see this much in her entire life, they immediately place the candies in the clear jars, the store was filled with colors from the candies that are in display and lucy said "I know what your shop is, it's a candy store" and she have said it with excitement and the man replied "Yes, its a candy store, it's Henry's candy store and I'm Henry Hoffman", henry smiled at lucy.

But, when lucy was cleaning up she noticed an odd shaped candy inside the crate and she begin to ask "Is this candy?, where will we put this? and why is it shaped like this?" the candy she was pertaining to was a cane shaped candy, colored in white with red and green strips which goes around it, Henry, told her "Yes it is a candy, we will put it here in this tall jar having a round mouth, that is called a candy cane do you want to know why it is shaped that way?" lucy replied "Yes I would like to know", Henry then took one of the candy canes and held it in his hand, he turn it upside down and ask lucy "What letter does it make?" lucy replied "The letter J", Henry then asks "Do you know what the letter J stands for?" lucy took a moment to think and she think hard and said "I have no idea can you please tell me".

Henry then replied "Alright then, the letter J stands for Jesus" and then henry ask lucy "do you have any idea why it is colored white?" lucy immediately answered "I have no idea but I would like to know", henry then answered "This candy is colored white because it symbolizes the purity of jesus" lucy then asks "What does the red and green strips symbolize then?" henry then answers "The red symbolizes the blood of jesus and the green symbolizes a new beginning", lucy if left with confusion in her face. Noticing this henry immediately told lucy "You see lucy, on christmas eve Jesus was born and when he became older some bad men did something to Jesus, they hurt him, hunt him even, he gave his life for us to save us from our sins, that's why he died in the cross, his blood was spilled so that we will be saved that's how much he love us all and he rose again from the grave to give his instructions to his disciples before going to heaven".

Lucy's face brighten up and said "Is this a secret about the candy? would I keep it to my own and don't tell anyone?", Henry immediately replied "No, we should spread the story, in fact that's what we will do today", and so they went to every house in the community leaving invitations for the opening of the new candy store with two candy canes. The people in the community was so intrigue by the odd looking candies, that's why they all show up in the grand opening of the candy store and all of them knew the story and they passed it on.

The candy cane can also make a shape of a sheperd cane, the first people to see Jesus Christ as a baby where sheperd's in fact the Lord himself instructed angels to go to the sheperds and tell them that he is coming why is that? ever wonder why? well, it is simply because it is for everyone to know, the Lord does not see us for our stature in life, he looks into our hearts and he loves us all so much.

Home workstation

Well, as a MTG player that is searching through the internet for ways to help me to strengthen my deck without first buying the cards because I want to see first the way it will function on my deck so before when ever I thought of something that might work on my deck, I would first buy the cards that I saw in the MTG websites like www.magicthegathering.com, www.essentialmagic.com these sites help me a lot.

But, when I found out about this great tool that I'm writing about it became my favorite application I'm talking about MTG workstation this tool helped me a lot in designing my decks and also in pin pointing what should be done in order to strengthen my deck before I could purchase the pieces, because for me I would like to purchase the right pieces for my deck so it would run the way I like it.

This application also helps players in building their decks and also the online feature of this tool let's you test play the deck that you have constructed in this tool with everyone on the internet, I mean you can actually play against a real person and also with different decks which is so cool and It's a great thing that I have found this one out, because it's a real help and it is also fun to play with your friends on the internet.

Here is the site for this tool, if you are interested just click on the link and just read on how to install it, the tool is not so big it is also downloadable and the system requirements on this tool is also not that high you just need a secure Internet line for some online play test's.

Merefolk Trouble.......

I have encountered an interesting deck while play testing my elf deck with my officemates new deck an amazing "Merefolk Deck" which is also a discarder of your library, When we first played our cards having an aggro green deck that has mana producing elves I was confident in attacking as fast as I can but when his setup was complete, I was powerless he keeps on gaining life while forcing me to discarding a number of cards in my library where in it is the number of Merefolk he taps.

I don't know what to do up until now, I keep on think what to do to kill it and to prevent that gruesome fate to happen to me over and over again, so I decided to speed up my elves deck and pump them up as fast as possible, but due to the lack of funds for cards (laughs) I still have to wait to purchase some cards that I need.

Wizards of the coast made Lorwyn a great expansion for some of us players that owns a tribal deck, and it is very nice to see other players being dragged into the tribal theme of Lorwyn, I think in my next deck I would probably purchase a "Kithkin Deck" but first I have to fix my elf deck and my mono red deck which I'm thinking to make a "Red Elemental" deck but I still don't have any ideas for it.

If I will play in any FNM (Friday Night Magic) Tourney, the "Merefolk" Deck would be my nightmare up to this time, I still can't figure out a way to kill it even though I speed - up the flow of my elf deck I think I can't still beat this deck, because this deck is a library discarder and a life gainer for the player that uses it but I know there is a way to kill it and I'm determined to find it's very weakness.

Deck building tool

Guys and Gals, that are into magic the gathering trading card game or would like to try out magic the gathering game you can now play magic the gathering without buying the actual cards you can also understand the rules of the game easily.

And if you are a magic player that you wants to enhance his skills or you just want to be sure your deck is strong before buying the necessary pieces to complete the deck? then, I have found a software that can aid you in that matter.

I just learned this software from a friend of mine, because I'm still new to the game so I do alot of customization and alot of test play on my deck (Elf Deck), he feed me the information about this soiftware after our playtest where in he won, this software can aid you in any manner that you want and you can actually test the cards that you build using this software with your friends online you can download the said software in this link.

Enjoy! and I hope that I have helped in some manner.

New in Lorwyn

Well, all of us that plays magic the gathering knew already that lorwyn has come into the board and making ravnica block drop from standard to type one, but most of us also knew that the new expansion to the set focuses on tribal decks and here are also some links on what lorwyn has for us aside from the tribal decks and obvious stuff.

Lorwyn, also has some new subtypes in their cards which is located in this link, according to the new subtype article wizards of the coast makers of magic the gathering game, aside from lorwyn having it's own different world and different name for it's goblins and also having a world without humans in it's race the lorwyn expansion also has some new sub type in their cards and also some new mechanics to their cards, like clash and the champion system the addition ability of their cards all of this are new to the game as well as the planeswalker cards that has also come with lorwyn the rules for the planeswalker would be in this link.

Lorwyn is here!

I think most of you here have heard or even played magicthegathering a trading card game that took most of us by storm when it first came out and until this day the game still takes us into some wild rides while playing.

Magic the gathering is very exciting to play and complex game. Aside from this complexity in the rules of the game that is ever changing and also the thrill that the game gives us while were playing whether it's a casual game or a large tourney the game constantly leaves us being amazed by the decks that we encountered.

Lorwyn has come to the land of magic, and with this new expansion that came into the sets of the game the ravnica block has drop down to type one from being in the standard type in the game, Lorwyn has certainly boost some of the tribal decks in such as soldiers, elves, boggarts or goblins in other sets, etc. here is a link to the spoiler list of lorwyn link.

Pre - constructed Decks in lorwyn block:

Here is the preconstructed deck for elves
Here is the preconstructed deck for kithkin
Here is the preconstricted deck for boggarts or goblins