Chatty Cathy. Salary: $30,000 or less 

During your certification training, you lose your job for gossiping about your patients. Wow. Not only is that petty, but without employment experience, you don't qualify for your licensure anymore. Not a good look.

Alarming. Salary: $40,000 

You got your first job at your ideal hospital. It's like a dream come true...except that you're on call so much that you can't remember the last time you slept long enough to dream. Oh, wait—it was last week. During your shift. Whoopsy-daisy.

Bored Technician. Salary: $65,000 

You've got a reasonably stable job at a doctor's clinic working forty hours a week in the OB/GYN department. You love working with the women in the department, but the job is becoming a bit monotonous. Maybe it's time to start offering glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers alongside pictures of the babies.

Sonography Senior. Salary: $71,000 

After years of top-rated bedside manner and a waiting list of patients who specifically want you as their technician, you've been promoted to sonography department manager. Now you can finally make some of the changes you've always wanted. Namely: glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers for everyone.

Professor Success. Salary $80,000 

After years of being recognized as a powerhouse sonography manager, you've decided to pass your knowledge down to the next generation of sonographers at a local university. It's a great opportunity to research new aspects of sonography while training the ultrasound technicians of tomorrow.