Ambulette Drivers and Attendants, Except EMTThis is a job that often requires speed, but always combined with the utmost care.
Ambulette drivers and attendants
drive vehicles and assist in transporting sick or injured people.
Many of these jobs do not come with flashing lights and sirens, however. Often people who are getting over procedures, or need help getting to and from medical care, are also taken care of by ambulette drivers and attendants
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Bus Drivers, School Job Description A friendly person in many young children’s lives is the School Bus driver. These individuals are responsible for safely transporting children to and from school every day. Students are picked up and dropped off at designated locations on a set route and schedule.
School bus drivers are trained to operate their vehicles safely and maintain a safe atmosphere on the bus. Drivers must be especially careful when children get on or exit the bus
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Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity Job DescriptionWhether cross-town or cross-country, bus drivers are people movers.
Inter-city bus drivers operate vehicles that go between regions or states, transit bus drivers operate busses in large metropolitan and suburban areas, and motor coach drivers take people on charter excursions or tours that may last several days. Some drivers are responsible for collecting fares and issuing transfers.
Bus drivers are expected to keep to fixed routes and schedules
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Computer Hardware Engineers Job DescriptionYears ago, the keyword for new college graduates was steel. Years later, the hot industry was plastics. Today, it is computers.
Computer engineers design new computers and computer-related devices. They have a detailed understanding of microprocessors, computer chips, and other components, which they apply to designing circuit boards, scanners, printers, monitors, hard disk drives, and many other computer devices or add-ons
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Couriers and Messengers Job DescriptionSome call them messengers, some call them couriers. What they do is pick up and deliver letters, important business documents or packages.
Even in an electronic age, the physical act of delivering something important is essential.
A messenger is called when the item has to be delivered quickly or when it’s so important that it has to be hand-carried to its destination.
Usually messengers deliver things locally—either within a building when they work for a large company, or across town in a metropolitan area
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Data Processing Equipment Repairers Job DescriptionThere's an old saying about computers: if it works for the first 90 days, it'll work forever. That's largely true for monitors and circuit boards. But it ignores the weak link in all data processing equipment-- the electro-mechanical devices-- which is to say, the ones with moving parts!
Moving parts mean friction and wear. And they can be found in printers of every sort; hard, floppy, and CD-ROM disk drives; tape drives; and keyboards
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Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and AmbulanceDispatchers are often at the hub of communication -at a taxicab or bus company, as a tow truck dispatcher, or even at a gas and water service company. A dispatcher plays a key role in relaying important information in a timely fashion.
Typically, a dispatcher is responsible for all communications within a certain area and is required to keep records, logs and schedules of the calls they receive, the vehicles they monitor and the response to each call
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Driver/Sales Workers Job DescriptionFrom the bread to soft drinks to toothpaste, the products you find on the supermarket shelves have been placed there by one of the legions of driver-sales workers employed by nearly every company with a product to sell in a retail store.
In some businesses, a salesperson persuades a store to buy the product, a driver delivers it, and the store owner has the items unpacked and placed on the shelves
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Nursery Workers Job DescriptionPeople love plants. Shrubs provide privacy and reduce noise. Gardens add color and often attract butterflies and birds.
But, whether you buy your plants at a home or garden center, a grocery store, or someplace else, they all come from plant nurseries.
These are businesses that literally "nurse" seedlings in greenhouses until they can survive in the outside world.
Nursery workers make this possible
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Postal Service Mail Carriers Job DescriptionPostal mail carriers
deliver mail to every business and residence in the country. Routes can cover just a few blocks in a city’s central business district, several miles in small towns or up to one hundred miles in remote, rural areas. Some carriers deliver the mail by foot, others use a vehicle – still others use a combination of the two.
Mail carriers may start work at the Post Office as early as 4 AM, organizing the mail for their routes
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Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors Job DescriptionRefuse and recyclable materials collectors gather trash, garbage, and newspapers, aluminum cans, bottles, and other recyclable materials from homes and businesses along regularly scheduled routes.
They lift and empty garbage cans into trucks or operate a hydraulic lift truck that picks up and empties dumpsters.
The job is usually dusty, dirty, and smelly — but always essential! And that's just the point
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Taxi Drivers and Chauffeurs Job Description Being a taxi driver or chauffer is a way to make money in between or in addition to other jobs. Some people make a career of it.
In most big cities taxis and hired cars and drivers transport tourists, business people, the elderly and people who otherwise can’t or don’t drive themselves or take public transportation. So there is always a need for drivers. But it can be stressful, physically and mentally
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Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers Job DescriptionDrivers of Tractor-Trailer Trucks are people who really deliver. Just about everything we use…from cars to food to furniture…comes to us on big rigs.
Before the drivers leave the terminal or warehouse, they will get details about their assignments, called manifests. Then the drivers will load up and make sure their rigs are ready for the road. They’ll check fuel and oil levels, as well as brakes, windshield wipers and lights
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