List #2--10 Careers That Use Deductive Reasoning And/Or Persuasion

10 Careers That Use Deductive Reasoning And/Or Persuasion
(note:  I'm no career expert, but I once took a course on career investigation and learned a bit about career clusters, some oddly specific jobs in manufacturing, and how to get high scores on free Flash games, so I'm doing my best.)

1.  Detective.  Yes, as I just said, it's not the only job, but I had to put it there to get it over with.

2.  Lawyer.  Lawyers actually need to know a lot about law, logic, logical fallacies, etc.

3.  Psychiatrist.  While all of it may not be deduction, it involves analyzing people a lot.

4.  Psychologist.  Not necessarily direct observation of people, but learning about them.

5.  Girl Scout cookie seller (or other door-to-door salesperson).  Figure out if people are home or not by looking at their driveway and house!  Look for paw prints in the snow when strolling the neighborhood in the winter!  Look at peoples' stick figure families on their minivan windows!  Hours of observational fun.

6.  Teacher.  There's a lot of persuasion and deduction to be done when elementary-age children are involved.  How can I get this one child to do their homework?  Who did that graffiti?  A teacher has to be very observant of students, and a very good persuader, or chaos ensues.

7.  Counselor.  Kind of like psychiatrist and teacher, only a little less science-y than the former and a little more personally involved than the latter.  A counselor learns a lot about peoples' personal lives, and has to know at least a bit about body language.

8.  Marketer.  For the persuaders.  Basically, get people to give you money, or get paid to get people to give somebody else money.  Often takes some awareness of what people actually want and other human behavior knowledge.

9.  Magician/Psychic Performer.  Not everybody knows very much about deduction, and it is the natural reaction of some people to assume that it is actually psychic ability.

10.  Anything that involves exploring an office building.  The office is often the window to the soul.  Gaze upon pictures of employees' pets, or better yet, notice the fur on the inside of their coat and ask "Dog or cat?" when you finally meet them.  If you're more of an office-job kind of person, you still have opportunities!

Signing off,
SM