Want to know a little about Anthropologists?
A big compilation of the things I have the power and knowledge to do (or have done).
Anthropologists
Occupation Specific Tasks:
* Advise government agencies, private organizations, and communities regarding proposed programs, plans, and policies and their potential impacts on cultural institutions, organizations, and communities.
* Analyze and characterize user experiences and institutional settings to assist consumer product developers, technology developers, and software engineers with the design of innovative products and services.
* Apply systematic sampling techniques to ensure the accuracy, completeness, precision, and representativeness of individuals selected for sample surveys.
* Apply traditional ecological knowledge and assessments of culturally distinctive land and resource management institutions to assist in the resolution of conflicts over habitat protection and resource enhancement.
* Build and use text-based database management systems to support the analysis of detailed firsthand observational records or "field notes."
* Build geographic information systems (GIS) to record, analyze, and cartographically represent the distribution of languages, cultural and natural resources, land use, and settlement patterns of specific populations.
* Collaborate with economic development planners to decide on the implementation of proposed development policies, plans, and programs based on culturally institutionalized barriers and facilitating circumstances.
* Collect information and make judgments through observation, interviews, and the review of documents.
* Conduct participatory action research in communities and organizations to assess how work is done and to design work systems, technologies, and environments.
* Construct and test data collection methods.
* Create data records for use in describing and analyzing social patterns and processes, using photography, videography, and audio recordings.
* Develop intervention procedures, using techniques such as individual and focus group interviews, consultations, and participant observation of social interaction.
* Enhance the cultural sensitivity of elementary and secondary curricula and classroom interactions in collaboration with educators and teachers.
* Examine museum collections of hominid fossils to classify anatomical and physiological variations and to determine how they fit into evolutionary theory.
* Explain the origins and physical, social, or cultural development of humans, including physical attributes, cultural traditions, beliefs, languages, resource management practices, and settlement patterns.
* Formulate general rules that describe and predict the development and behavior of cultures and social institutions.
* Gather and analyze artifacts and skeletal remains to increase knowledge of ancient cultures.
* Identify culturally specific beliefs and practices affecting health status and access to services for distinct populations and communities, in collaboration with medical and public health officials.
* Identify key individual cultural collaborators, using reputational and positional selection techniques.
* Observe and measure bodily variations and physical attributes of different human groups.
* Observe the production, distribution, and consumption of food to identify and mitigate threats to food security.
* Organize public exhibits and displays to promote public awareness of diverse and distinctive cultural traditions.
* Participate in forensic activities, such as tooth and bone structure identification, in conjunction with police departments and pathologists.
* Plan and direct research to characterize and compare the economic, demographic, health care, social, political, linguistic, and religious institutions of distinct cultural groups, communities, and organizations.
* Study archival collections of primary historical sources to help explain the origins and development of cultural patterns.
* Train others in the application of ethnographic research methods to solve problems in organizational effectiveness, communications, technology development, policy making, and program planning.
* Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.
Generalized Work Activities:
* Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
* Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others - Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
* Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
* Thinking Creatively - Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
* Processing Information - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Detailed Work Activities:
* advise governmental or industrial personnel
* analyze artifacts to determine age or cultural identity
* analyze scientific research data or investigative findings
* analyze social or economic data
* catalog or classify materials or artifacts
* classify plants, animals, or other natural phenomena
* collect scientific or technical data
* collect social or personal information
* collect statistical data
* communicate technical information
* compile data on human physique, social customs, or artifacts
* compile information through interviews
* compile numerical or statistical data
* conduct field research or investigative studies
* create mathematical or statistical diagrams or charts
* describe artifacts
* develop or maintain databases
* develop plans for programs or projects
* develop policies, procedures, methods, or standards
* develop scientific or mathematical hypotheses, theories, or laws
* develop tables depicting data
* direct and coordinate scientific research or investigative studies
* edit written material
* explain complex mathematical information
* forecast or predict phenomena based upon research data
* interpret artifacts, architectural features, or types of structures
* interpret charts or tables for social or economic research
* make presentations
* obtain information from individuals
* plan scientific research or investigative studies
* prepare reports
* prepare technical reports or related documentation
* recognize interrelationships among individuals or social groups
* recognize interrelationships among social statistics or indicators
* recommend further study or action based on research data
* reconstruct record of past human life
* record historical information
* solve problems in human relations
* study artifacts, architectural features, or structures
* translate written or spoken language
* understand second language
* use computers to enter, access or retrieve data
* use current social research
* use interpersonal communication techniques
* use interviewing procedures
* use knowledge of investigation techniques
* use library or online Internet research techniques
* use mathematical or statistical methods to identify or analyze problems
* use nutrition research techniques
* use oral or written communication techniques
* use public speaking techniques
* use quantitative research methods
* use relational database software
* use scientific research methodology
* use spreadsheet software
* use word processing or desktop publishing software
* work as a team member
* write research or project grant proposals
* write scholarly or technical research papers
Source: Occupational Information Network: Anthropologists.
I look at this list and am elated with possibility, loving the idea of pursuing these activities, and then become swiftly derailed with the prospect of not finding a way to execute my potential. I want so badly to achieve these bullets in a professional manner and I have dedicated years of my life to learning how to do so. My motivation is there, but the opportunities aren't.
Anthropologists
Occupation Specific Tasks:
* Advise government agencies, private organizations, and communities regarding proposed programs, plans, and policies and their potential impacts on cultural institutions, organizations, and communities.
* Analyze and characterize user experiences and institutional settings to assist consumer product developers, technology developers, and software engineers with the design of innovative products and services.
* Apply systematic sampling techniques to ensure the accuracy, completeness, precision, and representativeness of individuals selected for sample surveys.
* Apply traditional ecological knowledge and assessments of culturally distinctive land and resource management institutions to assist in the resolution of conflicts over habitat protection and resource enhancement.
* Build and use text-based database management systems to support the analysis of detailed firsthand observational records or "field notes."
* Build geographic information systems (GIS) to record, analyze, and cartographically represent the distribution of languages, cultural and natural resources, land use, and settlement patterns of specific populations.
* Collaborate with economic development planners to decide on the implementation of proposed development policies, plans, and programs based on culturally institutionalized barriers and facilitating circumstances.
* Collect information and make judgments through observation, interviews, and the review of documents.
* Conduct participatory action research in communities and organizations to assess how work is done and to design work systems, technologies, and environments.
* Construct and test data collection methods.
* Create data records for use in describing and analyzing social patterns and processes, using photography, videography, and audio recordings.
* Develop intervention procedures, using techniques such as individual and focus group interviews, consultations, and participant observation of social interaction.
* Enhance the cultural sensitivity of elementary and secondary curricula and classroom interactions in collaboration with educators and teachers.
* Examine museum collections of hominid fossils to classify anatomical and physiological variations and to determine how they fit into evolutionary theory.
* Explain the origins and physical, social, or cultural development of humans, including physical attributes, cultural traditions, beliefs, languages, resource management practices, and settlement patterns.
* Formulate general rules that describe and predict the development and behavior of cultures and social institutions.
* Gather and analyze artifacts and skeletal remains to increase knowledge of ancient cultures.
* Identify culturally specific beliefs and practices affecting health status and access to services for distinct populations and communities, in collaboration with medical and public health officials.
* Identify key individual cultural collaborators, using reputational and positional selection techniques.
* Observe and measure bodily variations and physical attributes of different human groups.
* Observe the production, distribution, and consumption of food to identify and mitigate threats to food security.
* Organize public exhibits and displays to promote public awareness of diverse and distinctive cultural traditions.
* Participate in forensic activities, such as tooth and bone structure identification, in conjunction with police departments and pathologists.
* Plan and direct research to characterize and compare the economic, demographic, health care, social, political, linguistic, and religious institutions of distinct cultural groups, communities, and organizations.
* Study archival collections of primary historical sources to help explain the origins and development of cultural patterns.
* Train others in the application of ethnographic research methods to solve problems in organizational effectiveness, communications, technology development, policy making, and program planning.
* Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.
Generalized Work Activities:
* Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
* Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others - Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
* Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
* Thinking Creatively - Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
* Processing Information - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Detailed Work Activities:
* advise governmental or industrial personnel
* analyze artifacts to determine age or cultural identity
* analyze scientific research data or investigative findings
* analyze social or economic data
* catalog or classify materials or artifacts
* classify plants, animals, or other natural phenomena
* collect scientific or technical data
* collect social or personal information
* collect statistical data
* communicate technical information
* compile data on human physique, social customs, or artifacts
* compile information through interviews
* compile numerical or statistical data
* conduct field research or investigative studies
* create mathematical or statistical diagrams or charts
* describe artifacts
* develop or maintain databases
* develop plans for programs or projects
* develop policies, procedures, methods, or standards
* develop scientific or mathematical hypotheses, theories, or laws
* develop tables depicting data
* direct and coordinate scientific research or investigative studies
* edit written material
* explain complex mathematical information
* forecast or predict phenomena based upon research data
* interpret artifacts, architectural features, or types of structures
* interpret charts or tables for social or economic research
* make presentations
* obtain information from individuals
* plan scientific research or investigative studies
* prepare reports
* prepare technical reports or related documentation
* recognize interrelationships among individuals or social groups
* recognize interrelationships among social statistics or indicators
* recommend further study or action based on research data
* reconstruct record of past human life
* record historical information
* solve problems in human relations
* study artifacts, architectural features, or structures
* translate written or spoken language
* understand second language
* use computers to enter, access or retrieve data
* use current social research
* use interpersonal communication techniques
* use interviewing procedures
* use knowledge of investigation techniques
* use library or online Internet research techniques
* use mathematical or statistical methods to identify or analyze problems
* use nutrition research techniques
* use oral or written communication techniques
* use public speaking techniques
* use quantitative research methods
* use relational database software
* use scientific research methodology
* use spreadsheet software
* use word processing or desktop publishing software
* work as a team member
* write research or project grant proposals
* write scholarly or technical research papers
Source: Occupational Information Network: Anthropologists.
I look at this list and am elated with possibility, loving the idea of pursuing these activities, and then become swiftly derailed with the prospect of not finding a way to execute my potential. I want so badly to achieve these bullets in a professional manner and I have dedicated years of my life to learning how to do so. My motivation is there, but the opportunities aren't.