do most of the world's work is done by grown up working people work why does everybody have a career doing some kind of work people work because they enjoy doing things that are useful and people work to be able to buy the things they need for themselves and their families in every single career people learn we need housing and we need healthcare and there are hundreds of other goods and services we want to make our lives easier and more  enjoyable because people need and want so many different goods and services there are many different kinds of work to do there are many different careers to choose from some people work at night people work with different machines people work with different skills almost every career requires special skills skills which must be learned by study or practice or both but people find it very satisfying to learn about work but they life do you think you would like to learn to work with your hands and with machines you might like a construction career like this one everyone must learn some things from books and teachers but no book can give you the skill to make a cabinet as fine as this one or to know when an engine is running exactly right maybe you have heard the expression experience is the best teacher everyone learns from experience but experience is not the only way to learn some careers require a person to know a great deal of information before he can begin to work he must learn the information before he can really begin to develop his skill it means more school after high school but if you like to solve problems you might like this career some people who like to be their own boss opened businesses of their own the you like to meet people there are lots of careers in which you can meet members of your community every day some people like to do work that is especially helpful to other people nothing is more important to people than good  each of these jobs is a different career but they are all needed to help take care of our health it requires a whole group of different jobs to take care of each main kind of work that the community the people of all communities need transportation driving a truck is an important career but we can see that it takes many other jobs in order for the truck driver to help us it takes mechanics to keep trucks running well a dispatcher tells the driver where to deliver his load secretaries and other office workers are needed to help run a trucking business but trucking is just a small part of the transportation we need we need the work of everyone who has a job with the railroad we need the work of transporting things by ship there are many different careers that provide us with air transportation because each main kind of work has so many different careers we can call each main type of work a career cluster construction is a main kind of work engineers draftsmen surveyors carpenters and many others have careers in construction because it takes many different jobs to build the new houses factories and businesses we need construction is a career cluster manufacturing is another main kind of work to manufacture the things we need it takes hundreds and hundreds of different kinds of jobs sole manufacturing is another career there are some other career clusters main kinds of work which include the thousands and thousands of different jobs it takes to produce the goods and services needed by the people of a big country like ours it is good that there are many different types of careers because different people like different types of work but no matter what kind of work they do most people are proud to do a good job because he learns new things as he works a person can get more and more satisfaction as he works at his career he may lead others and earn more money to it is important to earn the money to take care of families and even if they could get along without them it is very satisfying for people to earn enough for extra things they want you have quite a while left to decide what to be when you grow up you can think about it what do you want to be when you