Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Operators

Set up, operate, or tend continuous flow or vat-type equipment; filter presses; shaker screens; centrifuges; condenser tubes; precipitating, fermenting, or evaporating tanks; scrubbing towers; or batch stills. These machines extract, sort, or separate liquids, gases, or solids from other materials to recover a refined product. Includes dairy processing equipment operators.

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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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

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.

Investigative

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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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.

Artistic

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

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Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Chemical Processing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Production Occupations

Other Production Occupations

Set up or adjust machine controls to regulate conditions such as material flow, temperature, or pressure.

Monitor material flow or instruments such as temperature or pressure gauges, indicators, or meters to ensure optimal processing conditions.

Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory analysis.

Test samples to determine viscosity, acidity, specific gravity, or degree of concentration, using test equipment such as viscometers, pH meters, or hydrometers.

Measure or weigh materials to be refined, mixed, transferred, stored, or otherwise processed.

Clean or sterilize tanks, screens, inflow pipes, production areas, or equipment, using hoses, brushes, scrapers, or chemical solutions.

Inspect machines or equipment for hazards, operating efficiency, malfunctions, wear, or leaks.

Dump, pour, or load specified amounts of refined or unrefined materials into equipment or containers for further processing or storage.

Connect pipes between vats and processing equipment.

Communicate processing instructions to other workers.

Remove clogs, defects, or impurities from machines, tanks, conveyors, screens, or other processing equipment.

Install, maintain, or repair hoses, pumps, filters, or screens to maintain processing equipment, using hand tools.

Turn valves to pump sterilizing solutions or rinse water through pipes or equipment or to spray vats with atomizers.

Remove full containers from discharge outlets and replace them with empty containers.

Pack bottles into cartons or crates, using machines.

Operate machines to process materials in compliance with applicable safety, energy, or environmental regulations.

Turn valves or move controls to admit, drain, separate, filter, clarify, mix, or transfer materials.

Examine samples to verify qualities such as clarity, cleanliness, consistency, dryness, or texture.

Start agitators, shakers, conveyors, pumps, or centrifuge machines.

Maintain logs of instrument readings, test results, or shift production for entry in computer databases.

Assemble fittings, valves, bowls, plates, disks, impeller shafts, or other parts to prepare equipment for operation.

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Claw hammers

Colorimeters

Desktop computers

Gauging rods

Graduated burets

Grease guns

Handheld refractometers

Hydrometers

Industrial platform scales

Locking pliers

Personal computers

pH indicators

Phillips head screwdrivers

Platform scales

Power drills

Ratchets

Remote reading electronic thermometers

Socket wrench sets

Straight screwdrivers

Viscosity meters

Wire brushes

Data entry software

Email software

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

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President

[Rosemarie] Hi! [Roadtripper #1] Nice to meet you! [Rosemarie] Welcome! I graduated with a literature and philosophy degree, and I taught for two years, and while I think that teaching is probably the most noble profession that there is in the world, after the first year that I had done it, I was already done with it. I didn't wanna do it the second year and I didn't do it the third year. So I started doing corporate industrial, uh, photography, and I was at the top of my game and I met, uh, my former partner, who had the same attitude towards food that I did. And so we would entertain a lot of our friends. And so all the wine dinners, all of a sudden, somehow we started home brewing. It was a simple enough question that deserved a simple answer. "Well there aren't any good American beers, "well we will supply the pipeline." And so we started a really naive way of thinking, but I really believe that all good thoughts come out of just a desire, a simple idea. And then the passion that you have is gonna really drive that. I think that what I'm doing is being an alchemist. I get water, yeast, hops, and malt, and I change them into liquid gold. I really do, it's alchemy. It's like, okay. And then I'm making myself happy and other people happy. The real question is, "Do I "wanna realize my dream or someone else's dream?" That's really it at the end of the day. You're making something that's constructive to society and brings people pleasure. Like, beer really makes people happy. [laughs] 

Desire

Fulfillment

Passion

Simplicity

Interview

Arriving in Philadelphia, the crew meets with Rosemarie Certo, the owner of Dock Street Brewing Co., where they get a taste of her award-winning beer and her passion for the craft. Next, the team travels to Chicago to speak with Grammy Award-winning children's folk singer Ella Jenkins, who teaches the Roadtrippers a song. The team also meets with Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr-a happy-go-lucky couple that shares their love for filmmaking by helping students learn the art through affordable film and media arts classes.

Follow Your Own Rules 

I met my former partner, who had the same attitude towards food that I did. And so we would entertain a lot of our friends. And so all the wine dinners, all of a sudden, somehow we started home brewing. It was a simple enough question that deserved a simple answer. "Well there aren't any good American beers, "well we will supply the pipeline." And so we started a really naive way of thinking, but I really believe that all good thoughts come out of just a desire, a simple idea. And then the passion that you have is gonna really drive that. 

Rosemarie Certo Highlight

I think you define success by, for me, it's always for me, define success by being in a position where you earn your living by loving what you do every day. That to me is a success. Now earning a living is, you could earn a living and, on 10,000. Well, I don't know, no one can live on 10,000, whatever. There's all different levels of earning a living. But, that's the key to success. If you're successful is you're earning a living by loving and having a passion for what you do. Because then that mitigates the desire to make more money or anything else, or to try to knock somebody down, or who's doing something more than you. If you love what you do everyday, all else doesn't matter. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> [LAUGH] >> If you're making a living by loving what you do everyday. What might matter is if someone's gonna try to take you down, but if you're still loving what you're doing everyday, that's all that matters. 

Success

All Else Doesn't Matter

When you were teaching and you were, I guess trying to feel your way and just see if you liked it. But could you talk about the moment when you knew that you couldn't do it anymore, and what you knew you were looking for that wasn't in teaching? >> I didn't know what I was looking for, I knew that it wasn't that. >> You just total gut, yeah. >> I think the beginning of the second year I knew I had to. Cause I started coming home at the second year and another teacher and I, were walking home and I said to her, another day, another dollar. And I thought oh my God, [LAUGH] my God is this, it was like scary. Okay, another day, another dollar. And then for a week, I would say that as I walked to the car. And that's when I knew I had to get out, but I do know what I wanted to do. >> You were just willing to take that? >> [CROSSTALK] just anything. >> Yeah. You have to. But I think you need to be in that place that you have no idea because then you have to force yourself to say, well, what am I gonna do? I went back to art school. I was lucky enough to do that. And that was my first career. My real love in photography, and I learned a whole lot, and I love doing it. When we started Docstream, I was still doing some photography, and why did I leave that and join, I was helping my former partner make the beer, and we were contracting it out, cuz at the time that's how we started. Part of me, the lightbulb that went off was, this could be a real challenge for me because I can make lots of beer and I can sell it all over the world. It was like this idea, I could be, it's beyond just, I'm brewing it, had the potential and whatever I put into it was a potential that it held. It had that allure that, I would have a bigger challenge. So at that point that photographers stop being a challenge, I had reached the top of the pinnacle. Then, I was like the same thing with teaching. I've taught one year, why am I gonna repeat it the same information the second year? With doing this everyday is like a new challenge. I am nowhere near scratching any surface but, I am happy with what I'm doing and I do wanna do a business expansion. If it happens, it happens, if it doesn't, I'm still very, very happy because I get to do what I love to do every day. I don't work, I don't work for a living, I live. But I do and that to me is a real, real treat. 

Another Day Another Dollar

Oh my goodness, hi! >> Nice to meet you, come inside. >> Nice to meet you. >> Welcome. I graduated with a literature and philosophy degree, and I taught for two years. And while I think that teaching is probably the most noble profession that there is in the world, after the first year that I had done it I was already done with it. I didn't want to do the second year and I didn't do it the third year. So I started doing corporate industrial photography and I was at the top of my game. And I met my former partner who had the same attitude towards food that I did. And so we would entertain a lot of our friends. And so all the wine dinners all of a sudden somehow we started home brewing. It was a simple enough question that deserved a simple answer. Well, there aren't any good American beers. Well, we will supply the pipeline. And so we started really a naive way of thinking, but I really believe that all good thoughts come out of just a desire, a simple idea and then the passion that you have is gonna really drive that. 

A Simple Answer

When you first started this business with your friend. Were you cognizant of it being this counter cultural business or where you just, oh it's fun we get to party. >> No, I didn't. >> We're women, lets do this or was your partner a woman as well? >> No, it was former husband. [LAUGH] >> So, how did- >> He was a business partner and my former husband. We didn't see it as like a counter culture. All I knew that was all my life, like in the 70s I was like a revolutionary, hippie. Just not doing anything the way you were thinking the way most other people came and I grew up in a Catholic household. And thank God, my mother realized the strength that was in me. So she didn't try to knock me down but she would throw her hands in her hair and you're not going to this, you're not gonna go to church, you're not gonna- What do you mean you believe in x, y or z? It's partly because of her that she empowered me to have my own thoughts and to be a strong person. I never did anything that was mainstream. I mean other than trying to teach. In school which and again, that comes from my feeling about teachers. I think it's a great, great profession. But I think just because of the way I think. I think that making beer really allows people, is a profession where you could really allow thought and creativity to come in. It's not like you're working at an office for someone else telling you why don't you program some white bread or why don't you try to manufacture that. I think that craft beer was the whole segment, is all about thought and creativity and it's all representing a different lifestyle. It's representing a lifestyle that says it's quality not quantity. It's something that's different and it also is an industry that contributes to America's economic and cultural well being, which is to me, makes me very, very proud. 

Culture

Believe in X or Y or Z

I think that what I'm doing is being an alchemist. I get water, yeast, hops and malt. And I change them into liquid gold. I really do. It's alchemy. It's like okay. And then I'm making myself happy and other people happy. The real question is, do I want a realize my dream or someone else's dream? Eventually at the end of the day, you're making something. It's constructive to society and brings people pleasure. Like beer, really makes people happy. [LAUGH] 

Community

I Want To Realize My Dream

I'm not just here making money, because I can make more money if I was in another industry. I'm here contributing in some way, whether it's through a gustatory experience, whether it's as an example to other women, but mostly it's to please myself. Hey, I'm here, I'm doing stuff with my hands I love to do it. And I never ever in these past 25 years think of myself as working, even though I'm a workaholic, I love to work, and I'm always working. But to me it's not work in the normal sense. Like, most people that I know just hate their jobs. I can't, and when people say I'm gonna be in this job one more year, I have some friends, high powered executive jobs. I'm gonna be here one more year and then I'm gonna take off a year and then I'm gonna do something else and that they're really gonna not like. I can't even fathom that. I can't fathom that any individual would not find what is their pleasure because most of us spend most of our lives working. 

Finding Your Passion

When I look at women entering the job force at the same rate and the job titles at the same rate that men do, and then they don't proceed to the top as quickly and then there's only so far that they will let a woman go. What do you do then? I mean to me, the reason why there's so many women in business now is because that's the only way that you forge your own destiny. Because you either learn how to do things a way a patriarchal society is going to tolerate things to be done, which then means you are going to end up with the same old same old that we have now. And so you're still not gonna make any change or you're gonna do your own business and forge your own way. And I already imagine that's the same for any other ethnic group, Latinas, blacks, women, Asians, who are coming here in the US and trying to make a mark and to me that's a beauty of the US. It's not that it's simple, that it's wide open, that anyone could do it. But if you really, really wanna do it bad enough and you wanna work that hard, then it's possible. So it's the American dream. 

Hard Work

Discrimination

I grew up in a family in Sicily where my grandfather and my uncle would make olive oil from trees that they grew. And then they picked olives and then they brought it to the town mill where they would press the olives and you get extra virgin first. And I remember that smell, it was so vivid of fresh olives or being in the fields and trying to climb the olive trees and parents all screaming, get down from there! And trying to reach for olives, and picking grapes and then stomping on the grapes and screaming because my mother was saying, okay, it's time to leave now. And I just wanted to just be in there stomping on grapes. And then the other side, then my uncle would be selling it. And I think that to me, I didn't realize until much later, really played a part. I came to America when I was ten. But having grown up with that background, I started by cooking, because I love to make things with my hands and then we started making beer, home growing. And so to me, the logical consequence was keep making things with your hands and then selling it, creating a business. 

Hobbies & Pastimes

Create & Sell

The whole world is in front of you and you can do whatever it is that you wanna do. That's scary but it's also really exciting. I mean look at what a wonderful opportunity you have. You're not forced to go into this and that, even though society does say to be successful you have to do this and that. But you could forge your own destiny. That's the beauty of knowing what it is that you want. And if you really believe in what you want, then one way or another you'll find a way to make it happen. 

Opportunity

Forging Your Destiny

I mean there are challenges. How do you overcome obstacles? Because at the end of the day it's just human nature and nobody want's to see you succeed. So, I mean cuz then they see it as well why should that person succeed and I'm not succeeding? Then they think that you're better than them and they don't wanna feel that way about themselves, so that's why they're gonna knock you down.. And so I think they're daily challenges of business. You have to really, really invest your whole psyche in it. But that's the downside to anything and I think to do anything worthwhile is really difficult. I often say that If it was easy everybody would do it. So it's a question goes back to how much passion do you have to make it work? 

Negativity

Struggle

How Much Passion?

If we had known ten years later what it would have taken to start a beer company and be one of the pioneers, at the time there was just a handful of craft breweries in America, we probably would have never done it. We would have said oh I can't do this I can't do that we weren't financial people. We were artists and literature majors, so how do you do stuff like that? I think that most people, you're talking about what you all are gonna do, I think that the best thing is to follow what your gut tells you and not to worry. And you said that you're concerned that you don't know what you want to do cuz there's all these choices, and you do have. The whole world is in front of you, and you can do whatever it is that you wanna do. That's scary, but it's also really exciting. 

The Unknown

What do you think of the idea that cuz you spoke, I think you touched on this a little bit. But doing what you enjoy inherently kind of affects or is the most important thing you can do kind of like to find yourself, to find your place in the world, that it affects other people positively. Do you believe that that's true? That's something that everyone ideally should do? >> Ideally should do. I don't think people would let themselves do that. I don't think that most people, maybe all people are not capable of being fulfilled. Or maybe they don't think they're capable. I think that all people are capable. It's a question of is that the road you wanna go? Do you wanna go through your whole life without being fulfilled or do you wanna really fulfill yourself to the maximum? And think that if you do, you should really do something that you enjoy, because living, doing something that you hate, it's just for money, I mean we all have to make money. And there are enough opportunities that you can make money, without selling your soul. That's really what it's about, and contributing it's not just about selling your soul. A responsibility to humanity take care of yourself and the people around you. It's not just children we're all human race here, and do something that is nice, makes sense. 

Selling Your Soul

I would say no, that you have to work hard to have any success, whether it's monetary or any kind of success. It's about working on your dreams and allowing yourself to take chances. >> Yeah >> Cuz most people are afraid to take chances and >> You're not gonna get anywhere unless you take chances. You could always try something you don't like, it is not the end of the world, you try something else. Nothing is forever. Just take chances, work hard and take chances. That's what I think. 

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