I am trying to figure out whhat i want to do with the rest of my life but dont even know the terminology. So. I was wondering what the type of person would be called that worked on Point of Purchase and pakaging with alil marketing squeezed in would be called… 
Check out advertising agencies and PR companies. They do both although most of the structural package design is done by product designers.
ahem…Branding companies
I work for one (not for long though 
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We do POP, retail environments and I’ve just completed a series of concepts for a new diswashing powder container…which was actually quite funky.
I only know Canadian companies but here’s an exmaple of a few who I know do all this stuff…(in fact these are just Toronto)
www.brandid.ca
I’m assuming there would be a million more in the States.
your web site links helped me a great deal. I am still researching so anyone else out there who has some company suggestions which I should take a look at plese inform me. thanks again
Upstate New York is home to Chase Design - in Skaneateles, NY. They do quite a bit of packaging and POP work. “Retail” could be one way to describe it, although it’s under the industrial/exhibit umbrella. Chase is often hiring. Kinda sleepy town, nice lake and forests though.
uh…we 'll have a speaker from Chase next Tuesday. They do hire often…probably because NY upstate is a sleepy place? I’ll ask.