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Athletic Trainer

Athletic trainers are in athlete's lives to prevent injuries, educating athletes on how to prevent injuries, and helping recover from injuries that have happened. Athletic trainers get to know their patients and care about them, and hope they get back to playing sports. Most athletic trainers work 40 to 50 hours a week with most and weekends off. Most athletic trainers are required to be present at all sport functions like competitions, training camp, practices and games. Most athletic trainers have a full-time job and receive jobs at professional and college level. Competition for getting jobs at the professional and college levels. Receiving a job in the high schools should be good. Most athletic trainers have administrative responsibilities. For an athletic trainer to start practicing or to receive a job, they will need a bachelor's degree which is the minimum requirement and most athletic trainers have a doctoral or a master's degree. Some of them have a higher degree, too. Athletic trainers should be able manage stress and deal with difficult situations., considering they are responsible for their clients' health while they are visiting them for their recovery. Most people that are an athletic trainer have a desire to help people that come to them and need help with their injuries like athletes. They should maintain fairly well communication skills and know that this job will involve frequent interaction with other people. They will have the proper equipment that will lead their patients on their road to recovery.