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A professional who sells tickets for travel on ferryboats, street railroads, buses, and for admission to places of entertainment, such as skating rinks, baseball parks, stadiums, and amusement parks. Responsibilities include:
* Depresses key on ticket-dispensing machine that automatically ejects number of tickets requested by patron or tears tickets from roll and hands ticket to patron.
* Accepts payment and makes change.
* Answers questions concerning fares, routes, schedules, and reservations, and gives information concerning coming attractions.
* Keeps daily balance sheet of cash received and tickets sold.
* May fill reservations for seats by telephone or mail.
* May sell tickets from box office and be designated Cashier, Box Office.
* May collect fares from repeat riders at amusement park and be designated Second-Ride-Fare Collector.
* May collect fares from railroad passengers at station and sell commuter tickets and be designated Station Agent II.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, organizes, and directs comprehensive public and voluntary recreation programs at recreation building, indoor center, playground, playfield, or day camp. Responsibilities include:
* Studies and analyzes recreational needs and resources.
* Oversees and assigns duties to staff.
* Interprets recreation programs and their philosophy to individuals and groups through personal participation and staff assignments.
* Schedules maintenance and use of facilities.
* Coordinates recreation program of host agency, such as settlement house, institution for children or aged, hospital, armed services, or penal institution, with related activity programs of other services or allied agencies.
* Cooperates with recreation and nonrecreation personnel.
* Works under direction of recreation supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates disk or tape recording machine to record music, dialog, or sound effects of phonograph recording sessions, radio broadcasts, television shows, training courses, or conferences, or to transfer transcribed material to sound-recording medium. Responsibilities include:
* Threads tape through recording device or places blank disk on turntable.
* Moves lever to regulate speed of turntable.
* Places cutting stylus on record.
* Examines grooves during cutting by stylus to determine if grooves are level, using microscope.
* Turns knobs on cutting arm to shift or adjust weight of stylus and cause grooves to be cut evenly.
* Starts recording machine and moves switches to open microphone and tune in live or recorded programs.
* Listens through earphone to detect imperfections of recording machines or extraneous noises emanating from recording studio or production stage.
* Observes dials, mounted on machine, to ensure that volume level and intensity remain within specified limits.
* Removes filled reel or completed recordings from machine and attaches identifying labels.
* Keeps record of recordings in logbook.
* May service and repair recording machines and allied equipment.
* May be designated according to type of machine used as Disk-Recording-Machine Operator; Tape-Recording-Machine Operator.
* When transcribing to disk used in production of phonograph records, may be designated Dubbing-Machine Operator.
* When recording live television programs in monochrome or color on magnetic tape is designated Videotape-Recording Engineer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who promotes new fashions and coordinates promotional activities, such as fashion shows, to induce consumer acceptance. Responsibilities include:
* Studies fashion and trade journals, travels to garment centers, attends fashion shows, and visits manufacturers and merchandise markets to obtain information on fashion trends.
* Consults with buying personnel to gain advice regarding type of fashions store will purchase and feature for season.
* Advises publicity and display departments of merchandise to be publicized.
* Selects garments and accessories to be shown at fashion shows.
* Provides information on current fashions, style trends, and use of accessories.
* May contract with models, musicians, caterers, and other personnel to manage staging of shows.
* May conduct teenage fashion shows and direct activities of store-sponsored club for teenage girls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates computer peripheral equipment, such as printer, plotter, computer output microfiche machine, and document reader-sorter to transfer data to and from computer and to convert data from one format to another. Responsibilities include:
* Reads instructions and schedule, such as schedule of documents to be printed, or receives instructions from supervisor orally, to determine work for shift.
* Mounts reels and cartridges of magnetic tape in tape drives, loads paper in printer, loads checks or other documents in magnetic ink reader-sorter or optical character reader, sets guides, keys, and switches, enters commands into computer, using computer terminal, and performs other tasks, to start and operate peripheral machines.
* Observes machine operation and error lights on machines to detect malfunction.
* Observes materials printed for defects, such as creases and tears.
* Removes faulty materials and notifies supervisor of error or machine stoppage.
* Unloads and labels magnetic tape for delivery to other worker or tape library.
* May separate, sort, and distribute output.
* May clean and supply equipment operated with paper, ink, film, developing solution, and other materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives and transmits flight plans, meteorological, navigational, and other information in air traffic control station to perform preflight and emergency service for airplane pilots. Responsibilities include:
* Accepts flight plans from pilots in person or by telephone and reviews them for completeness.
* Routes plans for operating under instrument flight rules to control center and for operating under visual flight rules to station in vicinity of destination airport, using radio, teletype, radiotelephone, radiotelegraph, telephone, or interphone.
* Provides meteorological, navigational, and other information to pilots during flight, using radio.
* Relays traffic control and other instructions concerned with aircraft safety to pilots.
* Radios such information as identifying landmarks, beacons, and available landing fields to pilots in flight.
* Maintains file of plans for operating under visual flight rules until completion of flight, and contacts facilities along route of flight to secure information on overdue aircraft.
* Reports lost aircraft to control center for rescue or local emergency services.
* Monitors such radio aids to navigation as range stations, fan markers, and voice communication facilities, and notifies air personnel of availability of these facilities.
* Maintains written records of messages transmitted and received.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who schedules work for train crew or individual workers and keeps time records. Responsibilities include:
* Enters names of workers on assignment sheet for each trip on basis of seniority.
* Notifies workers of assignment, establishes availability, and assigns replacement crew when needed.
* Keeps record of departure and return of crew or worker for each trip, recording total time worked, and number of miles covered, using calculator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of and supervises personnel engaged in operation of air traffic control tower, station, or center. Responsibilities include:
* Interprets Federal Aviation Agency directives and places them into effect.
* Adapts procedures to deal with problems or situations not covered by established procedures or policies.
* Organizes and conducts on-the-job training of air-traffic-control specialist, station; air-traffic-control specialist, tower.
* Directs radio searches for overdue or lost aircraft.
* Inspects radio equipment for frequency adjustments and reviews records and reports for clarity and completeness.
* May be designated according to control activity supervised as Chief Controller, Center; Chief Controller, Station; Chief Controller, Tower.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to reproduce tape recordings from master tapes (original tape recording). Responsibilities include:
* Consults charts to determine amount of tape needed, considering running time of master tape.
* Positions master tape in master-reproducing machine and mounts blank tape on spindle of tape-recording machine.
* Threads tapes through machines.
* Interconnects and starts machines to record selection on blank tape.
* Stops machines and reverses tape in recording machine to record second selection on reverse side of tape.
* Operates recording machine to play back reproduced recording to test quality of reproduced sound.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who studies size, shape, and gravitational field of earth. Responsibilities include:
* Employs surveying and geodetic instruments, such as transits, theodolites, and other engineering instruments, in setting up and improving network of triangulation over earth's surface, in order to provide fixed points for use in making maps.
* Establishes bench marks (known points of elevation).
* Performs gravimetric surveying to determine variations in earth's gravitational field, and provides data used in determination of weight, size, and mass of earth.
Industry:Professional careers
