5 Cool Careers and Where to Train for Them… Fast

Become a personal trainer and help people lose weight and stay healthy.

Is your job cool? Do you brag when people ask you what you do for a living? Or do you answer, and then quickly say, “Yeah. I hate it.” There are so few “cool” jobs out there but they do exist.

You might be surprised that many of these jobs don’t even require a degree. You can get trained at a community college, sometimes in under a year. Many of these programs even allow you to study on the evening and weekend, so you can study for the cool job, while still working at the uncool job.

Here are 5 cool career paths and where to start the journey:

Personal Trainer

Turn your passion for fitness into a career helping people lose weight and turn their lives around.

Study at:

• Everest College of Business, Technology and Health Care
• Medix School>

Meeting/Event Planner

Make sure you’re at all the coolest events by planning them yourself. It’s also a fast-paced career field that’s expected to grow over the next few years.

Study at:

• The Art Institute
• CDI College
• Metalworks Institute

Fashion Designer

“I’m a fashion designer.” How cool does that sound? Seriously. Turn a fashion forward eye into an awesome career.

Study at:

• Academy of Design
• Visual College of Art and Design
• John Casablancas Institute of Applied Arts
• The Art Institute

Video Game Designer

Your favourite way to kill time is quickly becoming bigger and bigger business. Canada is becoming a major player on the video game production market and Canadian companies are hiring.

Study at:

• Trillium College
• triOS College
• Max the Mutt Animation School
• Academy of Design and Technology

Online Advertising Manager

If you watch Mad Men, you probably think advertising is very cool. You can’t work for Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. But you can work for an online advertising agency.

Study at:

• Providence University College –Otterburne
• Canadian Business College
• Academy of Learning Career and Business College
• Durham Business and Computer College