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predominantly physical-labor-intensive jobs and repetitive, routine
functions.

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TYPICAL CAREER LABORER JOBS

• Data entry
• Cab drivers
• Bank tellers
• Ditch diggers
• Toll takers
Temporary laborers:
• Juniors/trainees

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Laborers are most often the less career-minded side of the doing
workforce. These same doers who have upward mobility on their
minds or who take jobs as a temporary means to an end are not per-
manent members of this typology (e.g., the student just out of school,
the actor who waits on tables). Even the most creative minds—rocket
scientists, for example—while mowing the lawn on their off-hours,
enjoy periods in this no-brainer mode.
Career laborers, those who function principally in the laborer mode
with little intention of moving higher in the creative thinking hierarchy,
most often need to be told what to do, as well as how, when, and where
to do it. And they routinely need someone else to supervise them, to tell
them whether they’ve done their jobs properly and when they are fin-
ished. These hard-core laborers tend to do only what it takes to get the
job done; they’re often in no particular hurry, and, should a problem
occur, it’s usually their nature to wait for others to solve it. They may
tend to leave at 5:00 sharp, whether or not the job has been completed.

THE CRAFTER MODE

The crafters also operate mainly in the doing mode, but the principal
distinction here is that they take greater care in their jobs and, for the