Talk to your school counselor about programs and classes like woodworking that are offered at your school so you can start learning skills that will get you started in this field.

Find a class to jump-start your construction skills.

Search online for how-to videos to see how hard this work is to master--and whether it's something you think you'd like. Does seeing this kind of work in action make you more interested in trying it?

Watch tutorials on how to do this kind of work.

Follow along with a stone mason business owner for a day to learn more about stone masonry. Are you interested in this type of work?

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The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.

The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.

The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.

The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.

The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.

The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.

Stonemasons

Build stone structures, such as piers, walls, and abutments. Lay walks, curbstones, or special types of masonry for vats, tanks, and floors.

Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.

Realistic

Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.

Conventional

Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.

Artistic

Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.

Investigative

Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.

Social

Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.

Enterprising

Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.

Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.

Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Brickmasons, Blockmasons, and Stonemasons

Construction and Extraction Occupations

Construction Trades Workers

Lay out wall patterns or foundations, using straight edge, rule, or staked lines.

Shape, trim, face and cut marble or stone preparatory to setting, using power saws, cutting equipment, and hand tools.

Set vertical and horizontal alignment of structures, using plumb bob, gauge line, and level.

Mix mortar or grout and pour or spread mortar or grout on marble slabs, stone, or foundation.

Remove wedges, fill joints between stones, finish joints between stones, using a trowel, and smooth the mortar to an attractive finish, using a tuck pointer.

Set stone or marble in place, according to layout or pattern.

Clean excess mortar or grout from surface of marble, stone, or monument, using sponge, brush, water, or acid.

Lay brick to build shells of chimneys and smokestacks or to line or reline industrial furnaces, kilns, boilers and similar installations.

Replace broken or missing masonry units in walls or floors.

Smooth, polish, and bevel surfaces, using hand tools and power tools.

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Citrix cloud computing software

SAP software

Virtual private networking VPN software

Microsoft Office software

Microsoft Word

RISA Technologies RISA-3D

CPR Visual Estimator

Angle chisels

Cape chisels

Flat chisels

Hand tracers

Buttering trowels

Margin trowels

Pointing trowels

Tuck pointers

12 pound sledge hammers

Bush hammers

Cross pein sledge hammers

Stone mason's hammers

Drum mortar mixers

Electric mortar mixers

Horizontal shaft mixers

Mixing drills

Circular saws

Concrete saws

Masonry saws

Wet stone saws

Hand torches

Heating torches

Oxygen lances

Dust masks

Safety masks

Measuring tapes

Story pole tape measures

Lifting suction cups

Vacuum lifts

Stationary scaffolds

Swing-stage scaffolds

Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.

Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.

Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.

Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.

Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.

Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.

Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.

Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

How often does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats or life-jackets?

Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets

Every day

Once a week or more but not every day

How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls?

Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls

Continually or almost continually

How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions?

Outdoors, Exposed to All Weather Conditions

How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?

How frequently does your job require face-to-face discussions with individuals and within teams?

Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams

How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?

More than half the time

About half the time

To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks physically close to other people?

How much freedom does the worker have in determining the tasks, priorities, or goals of the job?

Very little freedom

How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers?

Work Outcomes and Results of Other Workers

Stonemasons

Overview

Career

What Stonemasons Do

Other Job Titles Stonemasons May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Stonemasons

Overview

Career

What Stonemasons Do

Other Job Titles Stonemasons May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Education

Level of Education Attained by Stonemasons

Majors Related to Career

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