Connecticut

Connecticut from a commuter train out of New York City – that's how I first saw The Constitution State. But why commute when you don't have to? In this state of 3,483,372, healthcare professionals have ample job opportunities. And other well-known employers in Connecticut include the insurance and manufacturing industries, and the military.

But enough about work: we all know that days off are the most important and there's plenty for you and your family to do in Connecticut on your days off. In this four-season state, you'll experience summers with average high temperatures in the 80sF (high 20s/low 30sC), and have snow as a definite possibility in the winter. Of course, that first trip off the commuter train was in early December, and it had to be 80F (27C), if not more.

On days off, the outdoor enthusiast can take off to one of Connecticut's many state parks and forests, and enjoy camping, cycling, horseback riding, hiking (or its winter counterpart, cross-country skiing), swimming, or boating. Or just spend the day at a beach. Love golf? How about go to the TPC River Highlands course, the host of the PGA's Travelers Championship. In the winter (except when it's 80F), you can also downhill ski at facilities such as Mohawk Mountain.

Want to entertain and educate the kids? (Don't worry, they won't know they're being educated.) Visit a historic site, such as places along the Freedom Trail, which includes buildings used by the Underground Railroad, monuments, and sites associated with the Amistad case (1839 to 1842), made famous to international audiences in the 1997 Steven Spielberg film. You can also take them to sites from the Revolutionary and Civil War. Go even farther back in history, and take them to Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill, a short distance south of the capital, Hartford. They can walk in 200-million-year-old dino tracks and take plaster casts of them home.

Want to do something without kids? How about have a weekend for yourself at a country inn or bed and breakfast. If you don't want to pamper yourself all day, you can tour some of the mansions and historic buildings in which we'd all love to live – so long as we didn't have to clean them. Later, you can go to one of the Connecticut's casinos in order to win the money to buy and clean a mansion of your own.

For something more artsy, check some of the museums and galleries New Haven has to offer, such as the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, and Yale University Art Gallery.

But speaking of the commuter train – if you are considering working at one of the fine medical facilities of Connecticut, remember that you're just a short trip from the urban excitement of New York City.

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