If you ever wanted to be an anthropologist, then this summary is for you. You will learn more about what an anthropologist do, where do they work, how much do they get paid, what do you have to study to become one and what are the future opportunities in this type of field. Becoming an anthropologist is made for someone that has a nonjudgmental, inquisitive mind. Another quality required to work as an anthropologist is to have patience as research can take a long time to complete.
Being an anthropologist can bring you multiple new experiences. If you work hard, you can become an anthropologist that travel around the world and do some fieldwork. It can make you learn new things about different cultures while being in contact with new people.
Anthropologists do lots of research that can after help to understand and solve problems and social issues. Their responsibilities are comprised between a wide range depending on their specialization. Fieldwork and research, cultural analysis, comparative study, ethnographic writing and publication, collaboration and engagement, teaching and mentoring, all of this is a part of the anthropologist duties.
On a typical day, anthropologists will examine, analyze, report on and compare different cultures. If they are lucky enough, they can travel to other countries to do so and immerse themselves in. But, most of the anthropologists will stay at their workplace.
The workplace of an anthropologist really depends on their sub field. It can be universities and colleges, research institutions, governments agencies, museums, private companies and even non-profit organizations.
To become an anthropologist, you need to attend university to get a diploma in anthropology or any related field. Some of the classes you need to take are anthropology, sociolinguistics, sociology, biology and even language for those who want to work in a foreign country. After university, you will need to specialize in a sub field such as cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology or applied anthropology. Before choosing a sub field, you will need to make some research to find out what you are the most interested in.
Anthropologists can expect to start in the field with an annual salary of $40 000 a year. Senior and advanced anthropologists can expect to make a salary around of $80 000- $100 000 per year. With more experience the annual salary goes up. Only around 20% of advanced anthropologists will make around $100 000 a year.
More training that anthropologist can make is to engage in field work. With fieldwork, you can immerse yourself in a community, and you can learn from that experience for your future. It also provides more experience before really interring the workplace. Other additional training anthropologists can do is research. During you career and your studies, you can present and publish your research. Publishing and presenting your work can help you make you look more professional and credible for the future.
They are no big dangers being an anthropologist. The only thing that may be dangerous is if you decide to work in a foreign country. A population may not be happy to welcome strangers in their territory or country.
A part of the field can be replaced with robots soon enough, or even with computer. This part of the field is all the research you can do online to make your life easier. But another part of this career is to connect with new people and try to understand them better. As we all know, robots, for now, don't have any emotions, but to have a career as an anthropologist, you do need some empathy and emotions to have better connections with the people you are interviewing.
Most anthropologists change profession in the two years stressed with all the work they have to do. For those who survive 5 years, they tend to focus more on publishing and writing new research. Finally we have those who make it until 10 years. Those are the ones that have published a lot and most of them will return to university to teach anthropology. With that being said, the age you retire at really depends on what you want to achieve throughout your whole career.
To conclude this summary career, being an anthropologist is not easy intellectually. A lot of anthropologists will decide to leave this field before even experiencing everything. If you love connecting with people and understanding new cultures, then this job can be for you! Perseverance is really the key for this field!
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