Furniture Finishers

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Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters build cabinets, counters and furniture from plans. Furniture finishers sand, stain and refinish pieces. Others run saws, routers and computer-controlled (CNC) machines in cabinet shops, sawmills and furniture plants, or make wood models and patterns. Most of the work is indoors in a shop, standing, with loud machines and dust. Carpenters who build houses have their own guide.

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High school courses that build toward it

• Welding and Metal Fabrication · Career and Technical

  Builds how things are made, which this job uses.

• English 10 · English

  Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.

• Geometry · Math

  Builds math, which this job uses.

• Physical Education · Health and PE

  Builds teaching and training, which this job uses.

• Chemistry · Science

  Builds chemistry, which this job uses.

• Ceramics · Arts

  Builds design and technical drawing, which this job uses.

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