Ballpark Estimate: $50 to $200 a session When it comes to marriage and family life, sometimes the challenges, obligations and conflicts you face on a daily basis can feel overwhelming. When you and your partner find that these stresses are too much for you to handle alone and you are constantly at odds with each other, it is often a good idea to seek the guidance and support … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $50 to $350 a person for a complete dinner reception If you’re planning a wedding or other large-scale special event, you may want to call on a full-service caterer to help pull it all together. In addition to providing great food, full-service caterers can also help to coordinate a range of important details, including meal presentation, table settings, … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $8,000 to $20,000 Commercial deep sea diving can be an exciting and challenging career choice. Divers must be willing to undergo extensive training, be willing to work extremely hard, and be able to travel for long periods of time in order to be successful in this endeavor. That hard work can pay off, in time, with salaries that can be quite lucrative … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $50 to $250 a session and up You probably know that many professional athletes rely on individual coaches who help them perform their best and lead them to success. But even people who don’t play sports can still benefit from another person’s expertise in much the same way. That’s why many people today are turning to coaches who specialize in life … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $15,000 to $30,000+ When you exchanged marriage vows with your spouse and promised to love, honor and care for him or her till death do you part, the last thing that was probably on your mind was the fact that over time, your relationship could fall apart. Yet close to half of all marriages in the United States today end in divorce. When a Relationship … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $60 to $180 an hour and up Will you marry me? These four simple words have withstood the passage of time. But while the phrasing never goes out of date, the presentation of marriage proposals has dramatically changed. While it used to be that a man getting down on bended knee to privately ask for a woman’s hand in marriage was enough to satisfy even the … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $300 to $2,500 and up Imagine the lens of a camera on you, day in and day out, following you around as you go through the paces of your day. If you were a celebrity or other notable figure, being pursued by the paparazzi like this would be just a normal, and perhaps extremely annoying, part of your existence. But while most famous people don’t really enjoy … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $20,000 to $40,000 If you want to adopt a child today, you may want to explore the range of options that exist outside of the United States. There are many children around the world who are in need of stable homes and families. And as many adoptive parents will attest, raising a child born in another nation here in the U.S. can be a very unique and … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $4,000 for a certification to $30,000 for a degree The need for ultrasound technicians (also known as diagnostic medical sonographers or ultrasonographers) remains strong in the United States today, even in the midst of a challenging job market. These highly trained professionals specialize in using the latest diagnostic imaging equipment to assess … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $1,500 to $10,000 and up If you are looking for a job that will enable you to help people to feel great, you may want to become a professional massage therapist or masseuse. This is a flexible career that requires extensive training, but the time and money you invest will allow you to work in a variety of settings with a broad range of populations and most … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $300 to $32,000 for classes or $52,000 to $90,000 for a degree If you can picture yourself as a wedding photographer, you may wonder how to turn your vision into reality. The fact is that there are many different ways to establish yourself as a professional in this exiting (but also very high stress!) field. Regardless of what route you take, though, just … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: EMT-Basic: $630 to $3,980; EMT-Paramedic: $3,680 to $15,730 Whether it’s a highway collision, a heart attack, a house on fire, or violence at the scene of a robbery or domestic dispute, when someone calls 911 for an injury, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) show up. There are a number of different certification levels for EMTs, but the most common are … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $5,250 to $28,000+ When we think of court reporters, most of us think of someone typing on a strange-looking machine, in the front of a courtroom. But a degree or certificate in court reporting, and “machine shorthand expertise,” opens up an exciting and surprisingly varied selection of career choices – working in a courtroom is just one of them. Methods … [Read more...]

Ballpark Estimate: $50 to $250 per visit Imagine coming home and finding that someone else has cleaned your entire house from top to bottom. If you hire a maid or housecleaner (most people use these titles interchangeably), you can actually live out this dream on a regular basis! With the busy schedules and demands of juggling family life with a career, more people are … [Read more...]