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Creating Your Career Fingerprint

• Biochemist • Interior decorator
• Computer-aided • Landscape architect
drafter • Mechanical engineer

• Events planner • Programmer analyst
• Fashion designer • Software programmer
• Food stylist (film and • Window dresser for a store
photography)

❑ Are you good at building things?
Do you love to work with your hands and wood, stone, metal, plants,
or other materials? Do the acts of sculpting, smoothing, cutting, dig-
ging, lifting, moving, or painting appeal to you? Do you enjoy jobs
and recreational pursuits in which all or part of your body can get
involved? Do you like to figure out how things fit together and create,
enhance, reinforce, restore, or repair them?
A few careers associated with this talent could be

• Aircraft engineer • Fine arts sculptor
• Auto mechanic • Fine cabinetry maker
• Computer or office • Gardener or landscaper
machine repair • Surgeon
• Construction supervisor • Watch repairer
• Electronics
manufacturer

❑ Do you enjoy operating things?
Do you think that you may learn how to operate machinery faster or
more easily than most people do? Do you enjoy the rhythm of operat-
ing a small or large machine correctly and efficiently? Do you think
you have more patience than most people when you operate machines?
Do machines, toys, and gadgets fascinate you?
A few careers associated with this talent could be

• Assembly line worker • Digital video editor
• Commercial airline • Heavy-machinery operator
pilot • Lighting technician

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