Environmental Health Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

An Environmental Health Specialist helps the environment and public health in the city around him/her. The environmental health specialist collects samples and specimens for laboratory analysis and gets inspections of schools, hospitals, parks, motels, food establishments and other public facilities to make sure that proper control of waste, refuse noise, insects, hazardous substance and products is maintained.

Average Yearly Salary: $60,000-$80,000

Education Requirements:

 A bachelor’s degree is required with a minimum of 30 semester units in basic science courses including approved coursework in biology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry or physics, microbiology, and college algebra (third year) or pre-calculus.

I don’t think I would want to be a Environmental Health Specialist because I am not interested in anything that they do. But I think that they do earn a lot of money and it’s a pretty good job but not for me.