The construction industry offers a wide range of exciting and rewarding career opportunities to people of all ages and backgrounds with excellent career prospects, the opportunity to earn a good living and even the opportunity to start their own business. It's a dynamic industry that needs dynamic people to secure its future and contribute to the UK's economic recovery. There are a multitude of opportunities to become a crafts person, developing a blend of traditional and new skills. The main thing I like about my apprenticeship is that it's practical, it's artistic and it's also enjoyable. I just love being able to do my own thing, putting my mark on things and going out and leaving my little stamp everywhere. Having apprenticeship means a lot to me because I know once I finish my apprenticeship I'll be qualified, I'll be a qualified skater for that and I should hopefully be able to send work for this my life. I enjoy a lot of things about my job, I enjoy coming to a good, I enjoy who in my hands and I enjoy making the dots on the windows. The coolest thing is spraying Bentley and Lamborghini showrooms. You're quite scared if you damage anything in there but it's really good. Technicians are the specialists who form the bridge between professional and craft careers. They provide hands-on skills with technical knowledge. Well firstly the main thing, I like the fact that I'm earning money while I'm learning and doing something I enjoy. I try to do civil engineering because it will help me get a good foundation and a brilliant sort of knowledge and I eventually want to be a quantity of our so being a civil engineer will help me open up so many different other careers personally. I've been quite blessed with the site managers that I've been working with. The last few site managers have had some really great experience at least ten years working as a site manager and I've learnt a lot from them about how to handle myself on site and just basically looking after me and showing me the roles. I've seen myself in ten years time hopefully progressing up the chain again hopefully site manager material and maybe even contracts manager material. There are many opportunities in managerial and professional roles including those in management, design, engineering and surveying. I enjoy most of my role working on site. The job is very very. You don't simply just work in an office now to find you quite often have to go out to site to carry out measurements, be measurements, you meet lots of different people as well. You could be the best accountant in the world but normally it's your box. Whereas what we do is tangible. Everyone gets to see you get friends, your family, you'll see the building that you've finished as part of your team. I think it's a nice feeling. I've just completed my first project on my own. We came in three weeks early and a little bit of money and a budget as well so that made the client hack. The best thing about the job is actually pushing the company to the vision. I'm actually getting the company on the right road to where we want to be. I meet and speak to a wide spectrum of local people about their places and the places that they know well and love. So that's a very satisfying part of the job. The thing I'm most proud of probably is Commonwealth Games Athletes Village. It's the highest profile project I've worked on and the biggest project I've worked on. The construction industry offers a host of dynamic and exciting opportunities in many different craft careers and professions. The team you're playing with on the team myself was a supervisor for the company I worked for. In about ten years time I'd like to see myself as a more advanced deep-watering job which is like a supervisor sort of role which makes you recharge your flight jobs on site. In ten years' time I can see myself developing my skills on site and in the office learning more about the company and the cultural and still frame system and maybe even some day running the company. I'd like to continue running up through the graduate scheme becoming possibly a construction manager over the next sort of five years and eventually working up to a project manager and the future after that. In ten years' time I'd see myself as an accomplished site manager with a well-experienced site manager and hopefully take in the next steps to become a project manager, a contract manager. It went to fitness with my training and I'm hoping to stay with Lloyd and Gravel and just getting on the experience really and hopefully be successful in my job. To find out more about the range of careers the construction industry can offer please visit citb.co.uk forward slash careers.