Notice the details and fine craftsmanship that go into creating the woodwork, cabinetry and d cor in shopping malls, bank buildings, hotels and office buildings. This cabinetry and millwork is the creation of craftspeople who like to work with their hands, and take pride in working with the finest materials and tools money can buy. This is a specialized occupation, which is attracting many young men and women. Floorlayers install a wide range of decorative floor coverings in commercial buildings, hotels, homes and churches. If you like to work with machine tools and precision instruments, and have a keen eye for perfect fit, you might consider being a millwright.
Millwrights sometimes work to specifications requiring tolerances to a thousandth of an inch.
In the old days, before heavy metal machinery, millwrights carved out gears and shafts from wood for mills and small industrial plants. Today millwrights are an elite group of construction workers who work primarily in metal and with machinery and equipment requiring precision. Millwrights install conveyor systems, escalators, giant electrical turbines and generators. Millwrights install and do maintenance on machinery in factories, and do much of the precision work in nuclear power plants. Millwrights are skilled construction mechanics who study and interpret blueprints, and then put their knowledge and expertise to work drilling, welding, bolting and doing whatever else is necessary to assure that the cogs of industry are in perfect working order.