Actors perform on stage in a theatre, on the radio, on television, or in movies. It’s hard for most actors to find steady work. Only a few become famous ‘stars’. Some actors work as ‘extras’. Actors can also teach in high school or in college drama departments.

As an Author or Writer your job is to create original pieces of written work for publications or for performances. There is plenty of room to try out different writing styles and writing for different reasons. You may want to write in the form of poetry, novels, short stories, biographies, plays, or film, radio and/or television scripts.

As an Author or Writer your job is to create original pieces of written work for publications or for performances. There is plenty of room to try out different writing styles and writing for different reasons. You may want to write in the form of poetry, novels, short stories, biographies, plays, or film, radio and/or television scripts.

The job of a Copywriter is to create words, slogans, tag lines or scripts to promote a person, business, opinion or idea. Their work is read in various marketing materials, sales letters, postcards, brochures, flyers, posters, billboards, email advertisements, etc.

Are you curious, determined and persistent? Do you want to know the story behind the story? Are you confident enough to poke your nose in or ruffle feathers to get at the truth. What about a career in Journalism?

A Linguist studies a language or languages. These can be modern or ancient languages. These studies can be both theoretical as well as practical.

Scriptwriters are skilled writers who prepare scripts for commercials, soap operas, comedies and dramas that are performed on television, in films and on stage.

TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). English is currently used as the world’s primary business language and this means there is a great demand from non-English speaking countries (eg Korea, China, Indonesia, Thailand, etc) to employ either TESOL or TEFL Teachers.

If you have a love of languages and a flair for linguistics then a career as a Translator might interest you. Translators put written, oral or sign language text into one or more languages, keeping the message the same.