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If you like to… other crafts. They work in a variety of areas, from power • Be physically active generation and paper mills • Be around people to refineries. They make • Be outdoors and install boilers and other • Solve problems large containers. Tasks • Work under pressure include reading blueprints, • Work with math and welding or bolting pieces details together and installing • Use technology valves and supports. Boilermakers also perform …then you may just have routine maintenance. a future as a Boilermaker. Salary range: $44k Check out this adventurous to $70k to $88k career where you can work Education: High school with fire and use a variety education, apprenticeship of tools. Boilermakers’ job programs, colleges, and duties are versatile and technical schools require knowledge from

If you like to… Cabinetry Specialists are experts in woodworking • Be creative and solve and must pay major problems attention to the details. • Be precise and like They listen to the needs the details of their clients and then • Do research create custom cabinets that • Work under pressure are both functional and • Be physically active aesthetically pleasing. …then you may just have a Salary range: $20k future as a Cabinetry to $50k to $125k Specialist. Education: High school or GED

If you like to… install and maintain all of the electrical and power • Be physically active systems for our homes, • Be around people businesses and factories. • Do research In large factories they may • Be creative and repair motors, transformers, solve problems generators, and electronic • Be indoors and outdoors controllers on machine • Find trends and patterns tools and industrial • Perform under pressure robots, as well as advise • Use technology management as to whether the continued operation of …then you may just have certain equipment could a future as an Electrician. be hazardous. Electricians interpret Salary range: $30k calculations, perform to $80k to $115k inspections and maintain Education: High school or electrical equipment, GED; Associates degree or and understand electrical apprenticeship programs schematics. Electricians

If you like to… the homeowner’s vision with the best fireplace for • Work as a team their particular application. • Perform physical activity Customer service skills • Work outside and product knowledge • Learn technical data are important, as are • Solve problems having an understanding of construction and …then you may just remodeling practices. have a future as a Fireplace Specialist. Salary range: $50k to $64k to $93k Fireplaces are one of the Education: High school unique products that or GED turns a house into a home. Fireplace specialists blend

If you like to… Flooring Installers clean and prepare areas, ensuring • Be physically active the space is safe. They then • Be precise and like remove previous flooring, the details and/or install new flooring. • Be creative Flooring installers typically • Be around people need to be strong with • Solve problems good stamina. …then you may just Salary range: $20k have a future as a to $50k to $125k Flooring Installer. Education: High school or GED , and apprenticeship programs

If you like to… residential, commercial and artistic glass. Glaziers use • Be physically active a variety of tools including • Be creative glazing knives, saws, drills, • Work with people grinders, putty and glazing • Use math compounds. They must • Work indoors and work as a team when outdoors guiding and installing glass …then you may just have for large buildings. a future as a Glazier. Salary range: $28k to $40k to $76k Glaziers are true artisans Education: High school who work with glass as their education, apprenticeship mediums. They select, cut, programs, colleges, and install, replace and remove technical schools

If you like to… heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. They • Be around people must understand how the • Do research systems work in order to • Be outdoors troubleshoot any issues, • Troubleshoot and solve and be able to install the problems equipment properly for • Work under pressure efficient operation. Can’t decide between a career …then you may just have in mechanical systems or a future as a Heating electronics? HVAC covers and Cooling Technician. it all! Heating and Cooling Salary range: $30k Technicians travel to job to $75k to $100k sites where the heating Education: High school or and cooling systems need GED and apprenticeship, to be installed or repaired. technical school They are always piecing things together as they install, maintain and repair

If you like to… across several industries and are trained in piping, • Be physically active tubing, fasteners, and • Be around people metallurgy. Instrumentation • Be indoors and outdoors Technicians and Fitters have • Solve problems to be familiar with electrical • Work under pressure systems, craft-specific • Work with numbers drawings, and must be • Use technology experts in the hand and power tools specific to …then you may just their trade. have a future as an Instrumentation Technician. Salary range: $28k to $42k to $85k Instrument Fitters and Education: Apprenticeship Technicians perform programs, colleges, and key installation and technical schools. maintenance functions

If you like to… between walls in order to help save energy. In the • Be physically active commercial and industrial • Be around people industries, they install • Do research insulation systems on • Solve problems piping, plumbing, HVAC systems, equipment and …then you may just other processing systems in have a future as an new construction, retrofit Insulation Contractor. and maintenance projects. In the residential industry, Salary range: $27k Insulation Contractors to $42k to $72k make sure your house is Education: High school warm during the winter and or GED, apprenticeship cool during the summer programs by installing insulation

If you like to… construct fixtures like windows and door frames. • Be around people Interior Carpenters are • Do research responsible for working • Be creative directly with builders and • Solve problems designers to develop the overall “look and feel” of a …then you may just have a home or business space. future as an Interior Carpenter. Salary range: $25k to $50k to $125k Interior Carpenters follow Education: High school the blueprints in order or GED to measure, cut, and

If you like to… Interior Designers consult with their clients in order • Be around people to understand what their • Do research needs and style preferences • Persuade others are. They then sketch or • Be creative generate a design digitally • Solve problems to show their clients. Once • Perform under pressure the design and budget are approved, designers shop …then you may just and execute their plan. have a future as an Interior Designer. Salary range: $30k to $66k to $80k Education: Bachelor’s degree

If you like to… Landscape Architects are the designers of the • Be around people outdoors. They plan and • Do research design outdoor spaces • Persuade others given their clients’ needs • Be creative and budgets. Landscape • Be outdoors Architects consult with • Solve problems their clients, engineers, • Perform under pressure and architects in order to …then you may just have a understand the project. future as a Landscape Salary range: $26k Architect. to $64k to $70k Education: Bachelor’s degree

If you like to… Landscape Contractors oversee the execution of • Be physically active the Landscape Architect. • Be around people They do the heavy lifting or • Persuade others manage a team that does • Be creative the physical labor in the • Be outdoors outdoor space. • Solve problems • Perform under pressure Salary range: $26k to $42k to $80k …then you may just Education: High school or have a future as a GED and apprenticeship Landscape Contractor. programs

If you like to… responsible for choosing and applying just the • Be physically active right paint, stain, varnish • Be creative or other finish to homes, • Be indoors and outdoors buildings and industrial structures. This career path …then you may just ranges from industrial spray have a future as a painters who apply coatings Paint Contractor. to prevent deterioration Paint Contractors prepare to decorative artisans who and paint both the interior create faux finishes. and exteriors of houses. Salary range: $20k It’s a physical job that to $37k to $63k requires a lot of climbing on Education: High school or ladders, bending, kneeling, GED and apprenticeship and reaching. Painters are programs

If you like to… projects. These pipes may carry water, chemicals, • Be physically active or gases to the crucial • Be around people building systems. Pipefitters • Be indoors and outdoors use many tools to cut • Solve problems and bend pipes to exact • Work under pressure specifications. • Use math and technology Salary range: $32k …then you may just have to $58k to $88k a future as Pipefitter. Education: High school Pipefitters plan and install education, apprenticeship detailed pipe systems for programs, colleges, and commercial and industrial technical schools

If you like to… systems that distribute water and remove waste • Be physically active from buildings, and • Be around people connect heating and • Be outdoors cooling systems. They • Solve problems have to be knowledgeable • Work with numbers in water distribution, • Perform under pressure reading blueprints, local ordinances and regulations, …then you may just have mathematics, mechanical a future as a Plumber. drawing, physics, welding Plumbers install all of the and soldering. necessary pipes, fittings, Salary range: $30k clamps, and more to make to $75k to $100k sure everything flows Education: High school or smoothly and is up to code. GED and professional license Plumbers also install piping

If you like to… and valves. They have to know all of the local and • Be physically active national sprinkler codes and • Solve problems make sure that everything • Use math and technology meets those requirements. …then you may just have a Salary range: $27k future as a Sprinkler Fitter. to $54k to $88k Education: High school Sprinkler fitters design, or GED, apprenticeship install, and test automatic programs, colleges, and fire protection sprinkler technical schools systems and components such as sprinklers, piping