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Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors

Human Services $18.45 High school diploma or equivalent 47%  projected growth 2,500  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.

Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

Architecture & Construction $35.34 High school diploma or equivalent 20%  projected growth 70  annual job openings

Place and detonate explosives to demolish structures or to loosen, remove, or displace earth, rock, or other materials. May perform specialized handling, storage, and accounting procedures.

Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Manufacturing $18.61 High school diploma or equivalent 52%  projected growth 220  annual job openings

Set up, operate, or tend machines to extrude or draw thermoplastic or metal materials into tubes, rods, hoses, wire, bars, or structural shapes.

Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers

Manufacturing $18.16 High school diploma or equivalent 9%  projected growth 130  annual job openings

Set up, operate, or tend machines that extrude and form continuous filaments from synthetic materials, such as liquid polymer, rayon, and fiberglass.

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

Manufacturing $18.27 High school diploma or equivalent 20%  projected growth 120  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 $51.25 Bachelor's degree 9%  projected growth 440  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.

Fallers

Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources $24.17 High school diploma or equivalent 2%  projected growth 70  annual job openings

Use axes or chainsaws to fell trees using knowledge of tree characteristics and cutting techniques to control direction of fall and minimize tree damage.

Family Medicine Physicians

Health Science $103.37 Doctoral or professional degree 7%  projected growth 140  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 $21.35 High school diploma or equivalent 18%  projected growth 120  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 $29.40 High school diploma or equivalent 5%  projected growth 2,680  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.