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Choosing the right career is a vital decision. The question is which job!
The 'Make It' things world has loads of choices - creating today's essentials - like iPods, trainers or medicines. Perhaps, more critical are the jobs developing tomorrow's - carbon-free cars, robotics or cures for disease.
It's challenging, enjoyable and rewarding - what's more, the money's better than most. Click on the links below to find out what it can offer. Meet the people and discover the jobs shaping tomorrow's world today.
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What can you make in the 'Make It' world? Of course it depends on how hard you work at it. What you can say is that salaries are attractive. For instance, a production manager easily matches an architect's salary and an engineer earns £10,000 more than the national average.
You'll find people working in the 'Make It' world earn as much as, if not more than, their friends and can afford to do the things they want - holidays, sports matches, eating, clubbing - whatever really.
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A career is much more than a job, so it's got to be interesting. The 'Make It' world is all about new thinking, problem solving and invention. For instance, if we're going to overcome climate change, we have to make new devices to create carbon-free energy.
It's interesting stuff, but (unless you want to make rockets) it's not all rocket science. 'Make It' needs, designers, engineers, researchers, managers, dreamers, inventors...in fact there's something to interest just about everyone.
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Making a difference with your career is a great feeling - knowing what you do really matters. This idea sits at the heart of the 'Make It' world.
Perhaps you save lives - making medicine, bullet proof vests, even mine-sweepers. When you make products for other people, you know it's going to make a difference to their life.
You could create a motorbike for wheelchairs, a sports car or a pair of shoes - it's just great to see other people using the things you make, sit back and say: "I made that!"
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'Make It' offers plenty of opportunities to get a more than just a career. In a global market place, travel is a big part, and many jobs provide a chance to see the world. John England (see the interview in Career Stories) has clocked up 55 countries so far...and counting.
It's also important to work with people you get on with. Fortunately, the 'Make It' world attracts a great breadth of people. More to the point, because everyone's creating products they believe in, together, there's a great sense of teamwork and friendship.
