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What interests you?

  • Working outdoors
  • Building and fixing things with your hands
  • Working with tools
  • Team projects
  • pencil sits atop architectural plans
  • three architects in an office building working on plans
  • construction vehicle stands ready to dig at a construction site
  • the curved glass and metal architectural ceiling of a museum
  • construction worker hammers in a nail
  • many hard hats lined up in yellows, oranges, reds and whites
  • wood frame structure of a residential house under construction
  • hammer on wood with several bent nails
  • backhoe alongside new pavement
  • construction site in the foreground with a beautiful city skyline in the background
  • skyrises under construction
  • looking from the ground up on scaffolding surrouding a building under construction

Check out these careers:

construction worker working on paperwork on a clipboard
Construction and Building Inspectors
annual salary range
$51,960 - $127,540
carpenter in hard hat sawing wood
Construction Carpenters
annual salary range
$33,290 - $95,250
Mechanical Engineering Technologist working while wearing hat and safety goggles
Mechanical Engineering Technologist
annual salary range
$37,770 - $105,590
construction manager reviewing plans with a worker
Construction Managers
annual salary range
$59,630 - $186,520
solar energy installation managers working on solar panels
Solar Energy Installation Managers
annual salary range
$48,480 - $125,330
electrician working on a repair
Electricians
annual salary range
$35,780 - $112,300

Explore

Do you...

  • Like to work with your hands
  • Design things
  • Draft plans and schematics
  • Solve complex problems
  • Build things
  • Work with a team

Gain Some Experience

  • Participate in a Habitat for Humanity
  • Visit a construction site
  • Build with Legos
  • Help build sets for your school plays
  • Draw the floor plan of your room and rearrange your furniture
  • Join student the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)
  • Intern in an engineering office
  • Participate in Skills USA
  • Job shadow at an architecture or home design firm
  • Help out with home improvement projects
skyscraper under construction
worker holds a drill to a piece of wood
worker holds a grinder to metal as sparks fly
construction manager holds rolled up plans
overview of a large commercial construction zone with workers and pipes
sparks fly as from a drill being held by a worker
the sun sets behind the partially built structure of a commercial building

School

Related Programs at Local Colleges

Check out the Los Angeles Community College degree and certificate program finder to search for programs relevant to your interests nearby.

Work

Career Interviews

Let’s find out what people working in the careers you want to explore have to say. Download the Career Interview worksheet (PDF).