Cardiovascular technologists are part of the fastest growing job market in the country, the medical one. There's two reasons for this: first, as we all live longer we stay alive long enough to need more medical treatment...and that treatment is of course what makes us all live longer. Secondly, medicine itself is changing rapidly, there's much more that can be done for people. Also, as it all becomes more complex doctors and nurses are finding that they need the help of specialists: like the cardiovascular technicians. At a cardiovascular technology school you'll be trained in one of three areas: invasive cardiology, echocardiography, or vascular technology. What's the career like after school? At a cardiovascular technologist school you'll train in one of three areas. The jobs you'll go on to do will of course depend upon which of the three: but the conditions are much the same in all three. The pay is good and it's a standard 40 hour, five day week career. Because the career is expanding so quickly it should be easy to find a job, and a good one. All three specialties revolve around your helping doctors to perform work on people with heart problems. Some of these will of course be very ill, so it's important to note that you'll need to be level headed. Doing the wrong thing, or panicking, could kill the patient. Getting it right will give them many more years of life which is, when you think about it, a very rewarding thing to do for a career.