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Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

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Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

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Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

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Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

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Athletes, Coaches, Umpires, and Related Workers

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers

Attend scheduled practice or training sessions.

Participate in athletic events or competitive sports, according to established rules and regulations.

Exercise or practice under the direction of athletic trainers or professional coaches to develop skills, improve physical condition, or prepare for competitions.

Maintain equipment used in a particular sport.

Maintain optimum physical fitness levels by training regularly, following nutrition plans, or consulting with health professionals.

Assess performance following athletic competition, identifying strengths and weaknesses and making adjustments to improve future performance.

Represent teams or professional sports clubs, performing such activities as meeting with members of the media, making speeches, or participating in charity events.

Receive instructions from coaches or other sports staff prior to events and discuss performance afterwards.

Badminton rackets

Balance beams

Baseball catching gloves

Bicycle motocross BMX bikes

Bowling balls

Boxing gloves

Competition javelins

Competition sailboats

Competition shot puts

Competition skateboards

Competition snowboards

Competition surfboards

Competition water skis

Core strengthening wheels

Cross-country skis

Cyclical variations in adaptive conditioning CVAC pods

Digital video cameras

Diving platforms

Downhill skis

Dressage whips

Elliptical trainers

Exercise bicycles

Fencing foils

Figure skates

Fitness balls

Fitness dumbbells

Fitness treadmills

Football training dummies

Football training sleds

Glute-ham benches

Golf drivers

Golf putters

Golf wedges

Gymnastics grips

Gymnastics rings

Gymnastics trampolines

Gymnastics vaults

Hammer throws

Horse bridles

Horse reins

Ice hockey skates

Ice hockey sticks

In-line skates

Lacrosse sticks

Laptop computers

Lower body weight machines

Metal baseball bats

Motion analysis equipment

Mountain bikes

Parallel bars

Personal computers

Ping-pong paddles

Pommel horses

Pool cues

Portable archery targets

Power stairclimbers

Precision archery bows

Race starting blocks

Recumbent exercise bicycles

Regulation basketballs

Regulation field hockey sticks

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Regulation soccer balls

Regulation volleyballs

Relay race batons

Riding crops

Riding saddles

Road bikes

Row machines

Sculling boats

Softball bats

Speed skates

Spring diving boards

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Squat racks

Stability balls

Sweep-oar boats

Swimming goggles

Tablet computers

Target shooting arrows

Tennis rackets

Therapeutic exercise bands

Therapeutic sandbags

Throwing discus

Track and field hurdles

Tractor tires

Uneven bars

Upper body ergometers

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Weight plates

Weighted vests

Wooden baseball bats

Email software

Facebook

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Twitter

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In 1982 Inglis and climbing partner Philip Doole were stuck in an snow cave on Aoraki/Mount Cook for 13 days due to an intense blizzard. Both legs were amputated below the knee.

Mountaineer / Winemaker / Speaker

(MALE) THE MOST EXCITING THING ABOUT LIFE IS CHANGE.  I JUST WANT TO SEE  AND MEET EVERYONE.  WHERE WERE YOU AT OUR AGE? THIS GRAND VISION THAT COME TOGETHER? A CRUCIAL TIME IN MY LIFE WHO I AM.  I KEEP CHANGING MY MIND  ABOUT WHAT I WANT TO DO.  IT OUT AND GET GOING WITH IT. IF IT'S SOMETHING I BELIEVE IN, WHY CAN'T I DREAM IT? I DON'T EVEN WANT TO LOOK BACK AT MY LIFE AND GO  WE'VE GOT THE ABILITY TO DO  WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO DO. THE BEST INVENTION EVER.  I JUST, I HAVE  MOMENTUM RIGHT NOW, WANNA KEEP IT GOING, HITS THIS CHEMISTRY THIS TYPE OF STRIDE WITH PEOPLE,  GONNA KEEP AVALANCHING. LIKE YOU JUST SHOOT OUT EVERYWHERE AND YOU'RE WARM  IT'S BEEN JUST  SUCH A JOURNEY SO FAR,  STILL HAVE 10 DAYS,  NOT GONNA HAVE THIS AHA MOMENT  JUST MAKES SENSE.  THAT WE GO TO, LIKE,  THAT "AH HA!" MOMENT, GAINING CONFIDENCE.  BIT AWAY FROM EVERYTHING.  I GUESS THAT'S  HOW SHELTERED I AM,  MY FIRST TRAVELS.  BUBBLE THAT IS YOUR LIFE.  CERTAIN THINGS AND YOU JUST  YOU TAKE IT AS  THE WORLD IS.  OF ANOTHER WAY OF LIFE.  WE'VE RAFTED BACK HERE, WE'VE  HUNTED AND FISHED BACK HERE PART OF OUR LIFESTYLE;  LIFESTYLE AND YOUR CULTURE  THEM TO WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT  I LOVE IT.  HAPPENS EVERY DAY. ALWAYS HAVING  AND THERE'S ALWAYS THAT'S JUST GOT YOUR STAMP TO GO IN AND DO IT.  OKAY, THE NEXT PERSON I'M  CALLING TODAY IS JOHN COCKING. AN ACTOR PERSONALITY OF  LIKE AN ART DECO ERA.  THE PERSONALITY OF THAT.  HELLO?  HI, MY NAME'S  ALLISON TEMINE,  AN E-MAIL LAST WEEK.  OH, YES, YES  I REMEMBER THAT.  I JUST WANTED TO  FIRST OF ALL TELL YOU,  SO ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IT WITH US.  NO PROBLEM.  TO IT, DARLING. NICE TO MEET YOU. I LEFT SCHOOL AT 15, WHICH IS AS YOUNG AS YOU COULD.  IN THE WORLD HEAPS OF MONEY A MILLIONAIRE AND DA-DA-DA-DA. TO DO THAT. I WAS JUST 16, I STARTED WORK. I WAS A QUALIFIED CPA. WHAT I WAS REALLY INTERESTED IN I'VE GOT A CAR, THEY FILL FULL OF DRINK. WHAT I WANTED TO DO? THIS GUY, DAVID DALE, HE IS TODAY. THANK YOU. AND I SAID, I'M ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AT." YOU'D MAKE A GREAT MANUEL."  CALLED, "FAWLTY TOWERS."  IN THE '70s IN THAT CALLED MANUEL AND I PLAYED IT IN RESTAURANTS JUST FELL APART. AND YOU'RE FABULOUS AT THAT." SORT OF PART-TIME. OFFERED ME A JOB IN AUCKLAND AND IN HER RESTAURANT, IN AND I DID THAT. CPA GOOD-BYE." BERTIE. TOURISM OFFICE, THE ORIGINAL IDEA. AS THEIR AMBASSADOR IN 2000 A SMALL STIPEND TO BE BERTIE.  BEING PAID FOR IT. BECAUSE I JUST ENJOY IT. THAT THAT IS WHAT OR THAT IS LIKE--? IN A BOTTLE, DARLING, I WAS SET OUT TO BE, OKAY?  PERSPECTIVE ON THESE. I'D DONE IN ENGLAND, A SUCCESSFUL ACCOUNTANT GONNA STOP ALL THIS "THE MAN'S CRAZY, "HE SHOULD BE PUT AWAY. "WELL, GOOD ON YOU, MATE." HAVE A GO." "HAVE A GO, HAVE A GO. IN 2 YEARS' TIME, DO SOMETHING ELSE." HAVE THAT SORT ATTITUDE, AND YES, WHY DON'T YOU?"  JUST LIKE THE VIBRANCE,  A 63-YEAR-OLD MAN, LIFE IS LIKE,  AND HE'S JUST LIKE,  THAT'S THE WAY I WANNA BE, [CAR HORN HONKING]  A WEB THAT'S DESIGNED ♪  I CAN KILL TWO BIRDS ♪ TO JUST SAY, "LET'S GO." ONE TIME FOR YOUR MIND. YEAH?  JUST JUMP IN COMPLETELY. YEAH, LET'S DO IT. ARE YOU SERIOUS, FORTIES? OPPORTUNITY EVERY DAY.  I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY  WE DID IT,  WAS AN ACTUAL PURPOSE.  AS SORT OF LIKE A METAPHOR JUST SORT OF US  WITH NO HESITATION.  I'LL PUT IT THAT WAY. I DON'T KNOW IT MEANS-- IF ALLISON AND I STOPPED RUINS THE METAPHOR, ARE ON FIRE AND I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA GET  MY PASSION LITERALLY  IS WORKING WITH PEOPLE.  I'M NOT GOING TO LIVE MY LIFE  FOR OTHER PEOPLE.  LIKE FAWNA AND ALLISON, LIKE THE SUPPORTING CAST.  EVERYTHING THEY SAY,  OR WITHOUT EVEN SAYING IT,  TO BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES. I USED TO LIKE AT 18 I HAD MY ENTIRE LIFE WORKED OUT. WHAT MY FIRST BORN CHILDREN HOW MANY YEARS I'D BE A DOCTOR TO HAVE SOME IDEA BUT TOMORROW MAY NEVER COME. HERE FOR WHAT? AND ENJOYING WHAT YOU DO, YOUR BOARDING PASS,  THIS IS THE FIRST TIME  IN MY LIFE THAT I  TO WORRY ABOUT.  I'VE JUST HAD THIS  ABOUT MY PATH,  A SCARY THING TOO.  HAS DEFINED ME UP UNTIL NOW DEALT WITH IT AND MYSELF.  NEEDED TO FIGURE OUT.  HIGH SCHOOL MY OLDER SISTER  A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT.  WHO'S LOOKED UP TO THEIR  THEIR ENTIRE LIVES,  REALLY HARD TO GET OVER.  AFTER GRADUATION, YOU KNOW,  AFTER COLLEGE? I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA.  THAT I USED TO HAVE.  THAT ANYMORE.  AND LIKE ON THIS  TRIP I'VE JUST REALIZED,  A CLEAN SLATE.  LOOK BACK AND SAY,  I SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT."  GONNA GET THAT BACK.  IS SO GREAT  BEING IN THE NOW.  HIDE YOUR EYES ♪  TO SEE HERE ♪  UNDER GROUND ♪  NOT TO GROW ♪ THOSE WORDS WON'T CHANGE ♪  ABOVE AND NEVER BE ALONE ♪♪ WE'RE GONNA GO AND SEE MARK INGLIS. TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST. A MOUNTAINEERING ACCIDENT. AND HE GOT SNOWED OUT ON HIS LEGS. IT'S NICE TO MEET YOU. GOOD-DAY ALLISON. RAY, HOW'S IT GOING? WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD. YOU HAVE TO HAVE A COUPLE OF YOU WOULDN'T WANNA BE YOU KNOW? SCARED ON A REGULAR BASIS. INCREDIBLY WELL HAVE HAPPENED IN MY LIFE. CHRISTMAS EVE 1982, AND THE SHEETS END THAT MOMENT ONWARDS WAS, INTO AN ADVANTAGE? THE COURAGE TO CLIMB THAT A MOUNTAIN ON THE DAY WAS THE THING IS IT'S A MIRROR OF YOU, YOUR COMPETENCE. YOU'VE GONE THROUGH IN SCHOOL IN SCHOOL. ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO REFORM THINK A DISABLED PERSON IS, TO LIVE MY LIFE THAT I'VE FOUND, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT A DOUBLE AMPUTEE FIRST MARK INGLIS. ADVICE, YOU KNOW, COMPLIMENTS. "YOU'RE DOING FANTASTIC," MY FOOT OFF THE GAS. TRY AS HARD AS I SHOULD. LEARNED THE SKILL OF YOURSELF AND LOOK BACK ON THAT OTHER PEOPLE SEE. THAT I'VE ONLY EVER A DOUBLE AMPUTEE CAN EVEN DO. TAKE THE COMPLIMENTS AND A GREAT DEAL OF HUMILITY THAT'S FANTASTIC. TO ONE SIDE AND THEN SO MUCH MORE TO DO, YOU KNOW?  YOU WALK AS IF ♪  ON THE LANE ♪  AS THOUGH YOU NEVER ♪ I WAS TELLING ALLISON, I FEEL LIKE I DON'T KNOW WHY PUT MYSELF IN CATEGORIES. I'M A CALIFORNIAN, CERTAIN THINGS LIKE THAT THAT ON OTHER PEOPLE, MYSELF LIKE THAT. CATEGORIZE YOU AS SOMETHING, AND YOUR BELIEFS THAT DICTATE  AS THOUGH YOU NEVER ♪  WE'RE GOING TO SEE  ROBIN JUDKINS.  I WAS JUST LOOKING OVER LIKE  DO IN NEW ZEALAND.  THE "COAST TO COAST RACE,"  OF THE COUNTRY TO THE OTHER.  OH, MY GOD,  WE'RE GONNA DIE. THERE HE IS. RAY.  COME ON IN. KNOW WHAT MY ADVICE IS? SPLENDID TIME YOUR WHOLE LIFE. IT MAKES YOU FEEL OLD. IF I HAD ANY OTHER WAY YOU CAN FROM YOUR PARENTS, AS QUICK AS YOU CAN. I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN YOU. HAVE TO LEAVE UNIVERSITY THAT YOU'RE GONNA STAY IN I WORKED FOR BIG BUSINESS. MULTI-NATIONALS ALL AROUND IN THE U.K., AND NEW ZEALAND. FOUR OUT OF FIVE; BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T LIKE ALWAYS TRYING TO FIX THINGS. DON'T LIKE YOU FIXING THEM, SOMEONE'S MADE A COCK UP, FOR MYSELF AND I CAME OVER TO ONE OF THE FIRST WOULD PROMOTE THAT BUSINESS THE AREA THAT I LIVED IN I DO IS ENTREPRENEURIAL. TIME AND I LOOK FOR THE NEW. OF NEW THINGS TO DO. OF THINGS THAT I DO, BAY, THIS VIEW IN HERE. WHICH OPENS NEXT WEEK.  ARTIST, ROBIN, OR IS THIS  YOU GOT INTO LATER? THAT HAPPENED AFTER A QUINTUPLE BYPASS, HEART ATTACKS AND THEN YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO WORK. SO THEN I TOOK UP HER BRUSHES. OF THIS MONTH, STARTED AND I'LL HAVE FINISHED IN THE EXHIBITION. REALIZE HOW FAST MY WHOLE LIFE YOU HAVE TO STOP. START AGAIN, YOU JUST GO...POOF! THE MORE YOU REALIZE AN EXTREMELY SHORT LIFE. WHEN HE WAS 52. WHEN I HAD MINE. HE DIDN'T GET THROUGH HIS. AND NOT DO ANYTHING. ALL THE TIME.  I DABBLED IN CREATIVE  NON-FICTION WRITING  I REALLY LIKE TO DO.  WORRY ABOUT LIKE HOW YOUR OR EXPOSING PART OF YOURSELF? THINK ABOUT THAT. THE TRAP OF DOING IT FOR DOING IT FOR YOURSELF. OF YOUR OWN IDENTITY. TO WRITE WHO YOU ARE. PEOPLE THINK OF YOU ANYWAY GET IT WRONG. LET THEM JUST HAVE THEIR OWN. OWN FUNERAL EXCEPT IN THE BOX.  THIS IS SUCH A CRUCIAL TIME  IN MY LIFE WHERE I AM CHOOSING  DEFINING WHO I AM.  AS THAT LIKE LOST SENIOR IN OR JUST WANTED TO BE NORMAL.  DO AND I WANNA SEE MYSELF  ALLISON'S TALKING ABOUT--  I THINK BACK TO THE WAY THINGS  HOW MUCH FUN EVERYTHING WAS.  GONNA BE LIKE THAT AGAIN.  FUN, FUN GOES UP AND DOWN.  FUN HAS YOUR LOWS, WHAT REAL HAPPINESS IS.  THAT YOU KNOW YOU'RE DOING  TO BE DOING.  SHE'S GONNA FIND THAT,  IS OPEN TO FINDING THAT. IT'S A SPECIAL THING THAT HAPPENS IN AN INTERVIEW WHEN PLACES WHERE I HOPE TO BE LIKE, OKAY, I'M GONNA BE OKAY, SIMILAR THINGS HAPPEN TO THEM SUCCESSFUL AND THEY'RE HAPPY. LOVE, AND TO ME THAT WAS LIKE, FOR ME NOW ABOUT THE ACCIDENT, AND IT DID HAPPEN AND I WANNA TALK ABOUT IT. MOST PARENTS LOVE SEEING THEIR KIDS GROW AND CHANGE. THE DAY IS YOU'VE STILL GOT SPECIAL BOND. IF YOUR PARENTS SAY SOMETHING, WITH THEM AND SAY, I'M JUST SO GLAD I FINALLY GOT THE COURAGE, TO BEGIN IT'S GONNA BE SO HARD. IS THAT LIFE BRINGS ALONG TO LEARN TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT ABOUT LIFE IS CHANGE.  "ROADTRIP NATION"  EXTENDS BEYOND THE PROGRAM  OTHERS TO CREATE THEIR OWN  INTO THAT MOVEMENT. A PICTURE OF EVERYBODY KIND OF OF INDIVIDUALLY. WE DON'T HAVE A NAME YET. THE TIME IN ALL OF OUR LIVES KINDA DEFINE OUR LIFE, OUR PASSIONS TO LIKE YOU KNOW, FOR ME IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, AN EXPECTATION THAT THIS IS A STRONG EXPECTATION THE ANSWER RIGHT NOW. BE INTERESTED IN THINGS, EVERYTHING YOU CAN, EVER GO BACK. I HAVE IN MY LIFE IS THAT AS HARD AS I COULD BECAUSE HE TALKED A LOT ABOUT AT OUR AGE AND ABOUT DOING AND JUST GOING HARD AT IT, CAN'T REGRET IT LATER. KINDA KNOW DEEP DOWN, SAYS IT, MORE TRUTHFUL. A REALLY OLD PERSON. BUT IF THERE'S THINGS YOU SHOULD DO IT. WHY NOT? COME AND GO.  WE'RE TRAVELING AROUND  NEW ZEALAND TALKING TO PEOPLE  ABOUT WHAT THEY DO.  ALLOWING THEM TO SPEAK  THEIR STORY  THIS IS IT, IT'S TIME TO  GO HOME AND I'M RELUCTANT.  IF YOU WANT TO GO  AND DO SOMETHING,  MAKE IT HAPPEN. EVERYONE WAS SAYING IT WOULD BE SO EASY TO GO HOME BUT I DON'T THINK IT WILL. YOU PUT YOURSELF UP TO SOMETHING AND THERE'S THINK ABOUT IT RATIONALLY IT'S ALL VERY SAFE, ALL YOUR EMOTIONS  CHECK OUT MORE ADVENTURES  AND INTERVIEWS FROM THE ROAD.  A ROAD TRIP OF YOUR OWN  INTO YOUR CLASSROOM.  SERIES IS AVAILABLE ON DVD  ON YOUR SCREEN OR VISIT  IN DISBELIEF ♪  ON CHRISTMAS EVE ♪  A GRUESOME SCENE ♪  THE CHIEF OF POLICE ♪  AND A CURSE ♪♪ 

<p>After a Zorbing adventure, the team is at the halfway point of their roadtrip. In Rotorua, they meet with Doug Tamaki, local personality John "Bertie" Cocking, and political blogger David Farrar. After a ferry ride to the South Island, the team meets with mountaineer Mark Inglis. They head to Christchurch where they talk with Robin Judkins, an artist, author, and creator of adventure racing events.</p>

Rotorua - Christchurch

I started mountaineering when I was 12 years old. a couple of extra self-confidence genes, to be a mountaineer, anyway. a regular basis, and I guess that set me that have happened in my life. 1982, 23 years old, and and the sheet's in halfway down the bed. right from that moment onwards, how can I turn this into an advantage? the courage to climb another mountain? a mountain didn't take my legs. the thing that meant I lost my legs. it's a mirror of your competence. you've gone through school and opportunity to be able to excel, able to reform people's person is, because I'm not disabled. live my life in a different way. found was that for a lot of years, and they didn't see Mark Inglis. compliments, should have, and it wasn't until able to stand outside yourself and see the person that other people see. only ever scratched the surface so how can anyone else know. with a grain of salt and thank you very much, that's fantastic. 

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I started mountaineering when I was 12 years old. you have to have a couple you know, otherwise you mountaineer anyway, You have to be prepared basis, and I guess that for all the changes that I had my legs off Twenty-three years old down the bed, and the sheet's from that moment onwards, turn this into an advantage?" opportunity to be able Another opportunity visions of what they think Because I'm not disabled. live my life in a different way. 

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