This visualization provides an analysis on characteristics of career paths/occupations people in Hawaii go into in order to make ends meet. The data that I have encoded comes from the American Community Survey's estimates for 2017 and the geographies that I have picked to include in this visuliazation with Hawaii and the United States are California, Maryland, New York, and Washington, states that have some of the highest estimated median rents in the United States. The three different categories that I have encoded: Occupations, Industries, and Class of Workers. The visualization provides a selector at the top and tooltip details on demand which shows category, geography, and percent values. Takeaways - For the "Occupation" category, the first thing that we can see is that hawaii has the least percent of their population in management, business, science, and arts occupations which seem to be the largest percentage groups for all of the geographies included. Hawaii also has the largest percentage of the presented geographies in service occupation. Hawaii also has the second highest percentage in Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations. For the "Industry" category, we see Hawaii with large percentages in construction and arts and entertainment. Hawaii has 6% more people in arts and entertainment than the 2nd highest percentage which is California. In the "Class of Workers" category, Hawaii has the second highest percentage of government workers. These numbers tell a story about the people living in Hawaii and reflect many of the first hand experiences that I've had as I observed the many paths that my peers and family members took. I've personally known many people working construction jobs because of how rapidly Hawaii develops and it provides a viable income. Construction is also a viable pathway as Hawaii has had a poor education system for a while and construction seems to be the choice for people who were not fortunate enough to receive higher education. The arts and entertainment industry is also a very viable pathway as Hawaii is known for it's tourism. I've had members of my family give A.T.V. tours and dance hula for hotels because tourism offers a decent pay wage. Lastly, government workers give a viable way of life as it is usually the only other field from tourism that offers pay wages that are high and consistent. I myself have even worked as an Information Technology intern for the Hawaii department of defense. Overall, these numbers tell more about what people in Hawaii are living like and what it takes to survive and even thrive on a pay wage that is viable. For some, these numbers also tell the reasons why they wanted to leave. Getting a viable paycheck for careers outside of tourism, construction, government, and even military work are tough in Hawaii especially because of the high cost of living. Everyone seems to want to move to Hawaii after visiting but many often face the realities of what jobs are viable. Note - Before looking further, I would like to note that the percent of the unemployed population in Hawaii was estimated at 1% less than the rest of the United States in 2017. I would also like to note that Hawaii was estimated to have had 3% more of their population in the Armed Forces in comparison to the United States. The United States Census Bureau is also only making estimates so the total sum of percents come out to a rough 100.20% or 100.10% due to the estimation. This data only includes civilian employed population 16 years and over within each respective geographic area.