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Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Manufacturing $18.97 High school diploma or equivalent 19%  projected growth 70  annual job openings

Set up, operate, or tend machines, such as glass-forming machines, plodder machines, and tuber machines, to shape and form products such as glassware, food, rubber, soap, brick, tile, clay, wax, tobacco, or cosmetics.

Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers

Manufacturing $22.68 High school diploma or equivalent 40%  projected growth 10  annual job openings

Draw and construct sets of precision master fabric patterns or layouts. May also mark and cut fabrics and apparel.

Facilities Managers

Business Management & Administration $49.79 Bachelor's degree 20%  projected growth 1,520  annual job openings

Plan, direct, or coordinate operations and functionalities of facilities and buildings. May include surrounding grounds or multiple facilities of an organization's campus.

Family Medicine Physicians

Health Science $100.55 Doctoral or professional degree 7%  projected growth 120  annual job openings

Diagnose, treat, and provide preventive care to individuals and families across the lifespan. May refer patients to specialists when needed for further diagnosis or treatment.

Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources $36.69 High school diploma or equivalent 49%  projected growth 980  annual job openings

Plan, direct, or coordinate the management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments. May hire, train, and supervise farm workers or contract for services to carry out the day-to-day activities of the managed operation. May engage in or supervise planting, cultivating, harvesting, and financial and marketing activities.

Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources $18.43 No formal educational credential 52%  projected growth 1,060  annual job openings

Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.

Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources $17.09 No formal educational credential 41%  projected growth 300  annual job openings

Attend to live farm, ranch, open range or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, rabbits, finfish, shellfish, and bees. Attend to animals produced for animal products, such as meat, fur, skins, feathers, eggs, milk, and honey. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, milking, castrating, branding, de-beaking, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. Includes workers who shear wool from sheep and collect eggs in hatcheries.

Fashion Designers

Arts, Audio/Video Technology & Communications $44.47 Bachelor's degree 13%  projected growth 30  annual job openings

Design clothing and accessories. Create original designs or adapt fashion trends.

Fast Food and Counter Workers

Hospitality & Tourism $16.04 No formal educational credential 48%  projected growth 22,460  annual job openings

Perform duties such as taking orders and serving food and beverages. Serve customers at counter or from a steam table. May take payment. May prepare food and beverages.

Fence Erectors

Architecture & Construction $19.62 No formal educational credential 25%  projected growth 150  annual job openings

Erect and repair fences and fence gates, using hand and power tools.