Careers
Explore career simulations
Ask a fourteen-year-old to name five jobs and you'll usually get doctor, teacher, police, soldier, and one relative's. Everything here is a job somebody does on an ordinary Tuesday, traced back to the school topics it actually uses — and most of them you can try, not just read about.
Software Engineer
Not typing. Breaking a problem into steps small enough that a machine can't misunderstand them — then finding out which step you got wrong.
Uses Angles & shapes · Algebra & patterns · Reading for precision
AI Engineer
You build systems that learn from data — and then spend most of your time working out who they fail, and arguing for the delay that fixes it.
Uses Probability & statistics · Functions & graphs · Argument & evidence
Landscape Gardener
Design and build outdoor spaces — and quote them accurately enough that the job still makes money when you've finished it.
Uses Area & perimeter · Angles & shapes · Photosynthesis & plant nutrition
Solar Panel Installer
Every quote starts with a triangle. Get the angle wrong and a family loses power every day for twenty years.
Uses Trigonometry · Electricity & circuits · Pythagoras' theorem
Land Surveyor
Measuring things you can't reach and can't climb. Where a boundary sits, how tall that tower is, whether the road will actually meet the bridge.
Uses Trigonometry · Sine & cosine rule · Maps, scale & distance
Rescue Crew Member
Ladders, ropes, cutting gear and fast decisions. Half the job is working out what will reach, and whether it will hold.
Uses Pythagoras' theorem · Forces, levers & the human body
Carpenter
Turning flat timber into something that holds a roof up. Uses Pythagoras three or four times a day and has never once called it that.
Uses Pythagoras' theorem · Trigonometry · Area & perimeter
Port Operations Scheduler
The tide doesn't care about your schedule. You get a window — either the barge is loaded and moving, or it waits twelve hours.
Uses Trigonometric functions · Rates, time & speed · Maps, scale & distance
Water Quality Technician
You test and treat the water that a village actually drinks, and you sign off on whether it is safe today.
Uses Ratio & proportion · Solutions & concentration
Agronomy Field Advisor
Farmers call you when the crop is failing and nobody knows why. You read the soil, the leaves and the weather, then say what to do this week.
Uses Photosynthesis & plant nutrition · Acids, bases & pH
Health Campaign Designer
You work out why people aren't doing the thing that would keep them alive, then write the thirty seconds that changes it.
Uses Persuasive writing & audience · Data & statistics
Microfinance Loan Officer
You decide whether a market vendor gets the loan that grows her stall — or the loan that closes it.
Uses Percentages & interest · Persuasive writing & audience
Logistics Route Planner
One truck, four factories, a flooded road and a cut-off you cannot move. You decide what gets left behind.
Uses Maps, scale & distance · Rates, time & speed
GIS Mapper
You turn satellite imagery and survey data into the maps that decide where a clinic, a road or a flood barrier goes.
Uses Maps, scale & distance · Coordinates & graphing
Prosthetics Technician
You build and fit the limb someone will walk on for the next five years. Part workshop craft, part anatomy, part listening.
Uses Forces, levers & the human body · Measurement & geometry
Live Sound Engineer
Physics you can hear. You mix the room so a wedding, a concert or a broadcast doesn't sound like a hallway.
Uses Waves, sound & frequency · Ratios & logarithmic scales
Medical Coder
You read a doctor's notes and translate them into the codes that make a hospital's records — and its funding — work. Remote-friendly.
Uses Reading for precision · Human body systems
Agricultural Drone Operator
You fly crop surveys and spray runs, then read the imagery to tell a farmer which corner of the field is in trouble.
Uses Maps, scale & distance · Photosynthesis & plant nutrition
Sign Language Interpreter
You are the reason a Deaf student can sit in a classroom, a courtroom or a hospital and understand what is being said.
Uses Language, meaning & translation · Register & audience
UX Researcher
You watch people use an app, find the exact place they give up, and prove to a team of engineers that they built the wrong thing.
Uses Interviewing & analysis · Data & statistics