Fishing and Hunting Workers

People in this career often know a lot about:

• Geography - Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
• Mechanical - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Law and Government - Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

People in this career often have talent in:

• Spatial Orientation - The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
• Far Vision - The ability to see details at a distance.
• Static Strength - The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
• Flexibility of Closure - The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
• Trunk Strength - The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.

• Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
• Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

People in this career often do these activities:

• Navigate water vessels.
• Remove skin or other body parts from animals.
• Capture or kill animals.
• Locate animals for fishing or hunting purposes.
• Direct activities of agricultural, forestry, or fishery employees.

• Drive trucks or other vehicles to or at work sites.
• Maintain forestry, hunting, or agricultural equipment.
• Position animal trapping or capture equipment.
• Obtain documentation to authorize activities.
• Sort forestry or agricultural materials.
• Package agricultural products for shipment or further processing.
• Obtain written authorization to perform activities.
• Communicate safety or hazard information to others.
• Transport animals, crops, or equipment.
• Attach equipment extensions or accessories.
• Clean equipment or facilities.
• Train workers in farming, forestry, or hunting techniques.
• Coordinate resource procurement activities.
• Protect wildlife or natural areas.
• Load agricultural or forestry products for shipment.

• Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers

• Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

• Roustabouts, Oil and Gas

• Tire Repairers and Changers

• Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners

• Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters

• Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment

• Rock Splitters, Quarry

• Construction Laborers