{"id":451,"date":"2012-02-21T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-08-01T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T20:17:18","slug":"job-suffixes-and-uncommon-professions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/job-suffixes-and-uncommon-professions\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Suffixes and Uncommon Professions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Most beginning English classes have a lesson on vocabulary related to jobs and professions.\u00a0 Usually these lessons cover jobs like: baker, teacher, and lawyer.\u00a0 One piece of grammatical information people often learn early on about profession title words in English is that they often end in the suffix \u2013er.\u00a0 This suffix is commonly used to indicate a person who does a job related to the base form of the word to which \u2013er is added.\u00a0 For example, teach + er = teacher and bake + er = baker.\u00a0 This rule, of course doesn\u2019t not always hold true.\u00a0 For example, cook + er = cooker, but this is not the correct word in English for a person who cooks as their job.\u00a0 The correct word is either \u201ccook\u201d or \u201cchef\u201d.\u00a0 So, the rule of adding \u2013er to a word to indicate that a person does this job is not universal.\u00a0 (Neither are all words that end in -er related to jobs or professions.)\u00a0 There are also some other common suffixes related to professions you may or may not have heard of, for example: \u2013or, \u2013ist, and \u2013ian.\u00a0 Professions that end in these suffixes include: actor, doctor, director, psychologist, florist, journalist, pediatrician, electrician, and librarian, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>When teaching about vocabulary related to professions I have often thought that the vocabulary related to professions is not that interesting, mostly because it is so limited.\u00a0 Only learning about jobs that end in \u2013er certainly doesn\u2019t represent a wide variety of professions!\u00a0 There are just so many professions out there beyond the basic ones you may already have learned in an introductory English course.\u00a0 So, today I am going to highlight some different professions.\u00a0 Some of these professions you may have never heard of, or perhaps you just haven\u2019t heard the English names for these professions before.\u00a0 None-the-less I hope this will help increase your English vocabulary related to the topic area of jobs\/professions.\u00a0 Who knows, while reading about these profession, you may also discover a career you are interested in pursuing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Actuary<\/strong> \u2013 Actuaries are people who deal with risk for their profession. Actuaries decide how likely things such as death, sickness, injury, disability, and loss of property are to occur, as well as the costs of these things.\u00a0 They help design insurance policies and pension plans. Most actuaries work for insurance companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Archaeologist<\/strong> &#8211; Archaeologists examine ancient sites and objects to learn about the past. They often work on excavations, commonly called &#8216;digs&#8217;, and record, analyze, and interpret archaeological remains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Astronomer<\/strong> \u2013 Astronomers are scientists who study planets, stars, and galaxies.\u00a0 They use large telescopes and special cameras to create images of the universe.\u00a0 They work with data collected from the images they take in outer space to analyze it for new information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forester<\/strong> \u2013 Foresters are in charge of forests.\u00a0 They are skilled in planting, managing, or caring for trees.\u00a0 A forester\u2019s work may include timber (wood) harvesting, ecological restoration, or managing protected wilderness areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landscape architect<\/strong> &#8211; Landscape architects make outdoor places more beautiful and useful.\u00a0 They design parks, playgrounds, college campuses, sports playing fields, and even back yards. They also work with environmental scientists to find the best way to conserve or restore natural resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paralegal<\/strong> \u2013 Paralegals or legal assistants are people who help lawyers in their work. They perform some of the same work as lawyers, but have less schooling.\u00a0 Paralegals investigate cases to make sure that lawyers know all of the important facts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rancher<\/strong> \u2013 Ranchers are people who own or run ranches, which are big animal farms. A rancher\u2019s work usually involves handling livestock (i.e. cows, horses). Ranchers manage large herds of animals, making sure the animals have enough to eat, stay healthy, and stay on the right land. Sometimes the people who work on ranches, but don\u2019t own the ranch are called: cowhands, ranch hands, wranglers, or cowboys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sound engineering technician<\/strong> \u2013 Sound engineer technicians operate machines and equipment to record, synchronize, mix, or reproduce music, voices, or sound effects in sporting arenas, theater productions, recording studios, or movie and video productions.\u00a0 They often work in the movie or music industries, but also in radio broadcasting and in the performing arts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surveyor<\/strong> &#8211; Surveyors measure land, air space, and water areas. They describe where certain areas of land are and they explain what it looks like, and how much land is there.\u00a0 Surveyors also create maps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zookeeper<\/strong> &#8211; Zookeepers take care of wild animals in zoos and animal parks. They feed the animals, clean their living spaces, and work to keep them healthy. Zookeepers, sometimes called \u201ckeepers\u201d, watch the animals to see if they are sick or hurt and write detailed notes about each animal to tell a veterinarian if there is a problem.\u00a0 They also teach people who come to zoos about animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"112\" height=\"111\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2012\/01\/men-at-work.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Most beginning English classes have a lesson on vocabulary related to jobs and professions.\u00a0 Usually these lessons cover jobs like: baker, teacher, and lawyer.\u00a0 One piece of grammatical information people often learn early on about profession title words in English is that they often end in the suffix \u2013er.\u00a0 This suffix is commonly used to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/job-suffixes-and-uncommon-professions\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[135139,135370],"tags":[49677,6367,98,7544,150,6964],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-language","category-english-vocabulary","tag-er","tag-or","tag-job","tag-professions","tag-suffix","tag-suffixes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}