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Model Makers, Wood
Builds cabinets, furniture and other wood products in a shop or factory.
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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
- Woodworking · Career and Technical
Builds building and construction, which this job uses.
- Geometry · Math
Builds math, which this job uses.
- Computer Science Principles · Computer Science
Builds computers and electronics, which this job uses.
- Physics · Science
Builds math, which this job uses.
- Ceramics · Arts
Builds design and technical drawing, which this job uses.
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
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Model Makers, Wood on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.