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Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors

Human Services $17.63 High school diploma or equivalent 16%  projected growth 250  annual job openings

Instruct or coach groups or individuals in exercise activities for the primary purpose of personal fitness. Demonstrate techniques and form, observe participants, and explain to them corrective measures necessary to improve their skills. Develop and implement individualized approaches to exercise.

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

Manufacturing $16.55 High school diploma or equivalent 3%  projected growth 80  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.

Facilities Managers

Business Management & Administration $31.03 Bachelor's degree 6%  projected growth 220  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 and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Education & Training $36.51 Doctoral or professional degree 8%  projected growth 10  annual job openings

Teach courses in childcare, family relations, finance, nutrition, and related subjects pertaining to home management. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Family Medicine Physicians

Health Science $90.66 Doctoral or professional degree 17%  projected growth 40  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.

Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians

Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources $18.06 High school diploma or equivalent 5%  projected growth 70  annual job openings

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul farm machinery and vehicles, such as tractors, harvesters, dairy equipment, and irrigation systems.

Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources $15.07 High school diploma or equivalent 9%  projected growth 720  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 $16.50 No formal educational credential 5%  projected growth 530  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 $17.92 No formal educational credential 17%  projected growth 400  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.

Financial and Investment Analysts

Finance $32.56 Bachelor's degree 3%  projected growth 80  annual job openings

Conduct quantitative analyses of information involving investment programs or financial data of public or private institutions, including valuation of businesses.