Career: Genetic Counseling

     Genetic counseling is a career in which the counselor calculates a person's probability of passing an inherit disease onto another person. They can also figure out the probability of a person developing it and or passing it off to their offspring.
     The working condition for Genetic counselors are fairly simple. This profession keeps expanding since more and more people will be wanting to seek a counselor before they have a child. As more people have a better understanding of genetic diseases and knowledge of basic science, more counselors will be wanted in the future.
     The Training to be a Genetic counselor isn't simple, it will take six years in school but the annual pay is quite rewarding coming in at around $68,000 per year.
     These genetic counselors will have to help the couple undergo a series of genetic test to determine the risk for certain diseases. These diseases may be passed on to their offspring at a certain percentage based on the mother and the father's genetic.

reference:
http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/Career/53/Genetic_Counselor