26 (tie). Tire repairers and changers
Overall activeness score: 49.6
What they do: Repair and replace tires.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2. Trunk strength
3. Stamina
26 (tie). Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Overall activeness score: 49.6
What they do: Set up, operate, or monitor machines that draw thermoplastic or metal materials into bars, hoses, rods, tubes, wire, or other shapes.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2. Trunk strength
3. Stamina
25. Terrazzo workers and finishers
Overall activeness score: 49.8
What they do: Apply a mixture of cement, sand, pigment, or marble chips to floors, stairways, and fixtures to create durable and decorative surfaces.
Top three activity areas:
1. Trunk strength
2. Stamina
3. Time spent walking or running
24. Nursery workers
Overall activeness score: 50
What they do: Cultivate, harvest, and transplant trees, shrubs, or plants.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2. Stamina
3. Trunk strength
22 (tie). Drywall and ceiling tile installers
Overall activeness score: 50.4
What they do: Apply plasterboard to ceilings or interior building walls, or apply or mount tiles or blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing materials to ceilings and walls to reduce sound.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2. Trunk strength
3. Stamina
22 (tie). Helpers — roofers
Overall activeness score: 50.4
What they do: Help roofers by taking on tasks that require less skill, like supplying or holding materials or tools and helping to clean the equipment and work space.
Top three activity areas:
1. Trunk strength
2. Time spent walking or running
3. Stamina
20 (tie). Waiters and waitresses
Overall activeness score: 50.6
What they do: Take orders and serve food and drinks to customers in a restaurant, bar, or cafe.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2 (tie). Stamina
2 (tie). Trunk strength
20 (tie). Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
Overall activeness score: 50.6
What they do: Landscape property grounds using hand tools or other equipment. Work typically includes things like laying sod, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, and installing sprinklers.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2. Trunk strength
3. Stamina
19. Helpers — brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters
Overall activeness score: 50.8
What they do: Help brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, or tile and marble setters by handling tasks that require less skill. They often help use or supply tools or assist with cleaning equipment.
Top three activity areas:
1. Trunk strength
2. Time spent walking or running
3. Dynamic strength and stamina
17 (tie). Roofers
Overall activeness score: 51.4
What they do: Cover roofs with shingles, slate, asphalt, aluminum, wood, etc. Roofers may also spray roofs, sidings, and walls with binding and sealing material.
Top three activity areas:
1. Trunk strength
2. Time spent walking or running
3. Stamina
17 (tie). Helpers — installation, maintenance, and repair workers
Overall activeness score: 51.4
What they do: Help installation, maintenance, and repair workers maintain and repair parts, vehicles, machinery, and electrical equipment. They may also help furnish tools, materials, and supplies to other workers; clean the work area, machines, and tools; and hold materials or tools for other workers.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2. Trunk strength
3. Stamina
16. Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders
Overall activeness score: 51.6
What they do: Operate bonding machines that use adhesives to join pieces of a product, from turning veneer sheets into plywood; gluing paper; or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2. Trunk strength
3. Stamina
15. Brickmasons and blockmasons
Overall activeness score: 52.2
What they do: Lay and bind building materials like bricks, tiles, concrete, cinder, glass, and terra-cotta blocks to build or fix things like walls, partitions, arches, and sewers.
Top three activity areas:
1. Trunk strength
2. Dynamic strength
3. Time spent walking or running
14. Choreographers
Overall activeness score: 52.8
What they do: Come up with new dance routines, rehearse performances, or direct shows.
Top three activity areas:
1 (tie). Trunk strength
1 (tie). Stamina
2. Time spent walking or running
13. Construction carpenters
Overall activeness score: 53
What they do: Build and fix wood, plywood, and wallboard structures with carpenter's hand and power tools.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2. Trunk strength
3. Stamina
11 (tie). Cement masons and concrete finishers
Overall activeness score: 53.4
What they do: Smooth and finish poured concrete surfaces like floors, walks, sidewalks, roads, or curbs with hand and power tools. Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or gutters; patch voids; and use saws to cut joints.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2. Trunk strength
3. Stamina
11 (tie). Stonemasons
Overall activeness score: 53.4
What they do: Build stone structures like piers and walls, and lay walks, curbstones, or special types of masonry for vats, tanks, and floors.
Top three activity areas:
1. Trunk strength
2. Time spent walking or running
3. Stamina
10. Manufactured building and mobile home installers
Overall activeness score: 53.6
What they do: Move or set up mobile homes or premade buildings.
Top three activity areas:
1. Trunk strength
2. Stamina
3. Time spent walking or running
9. Correctional officers and jailers
Overall activeness score: 54.4
What they do: Guard inmates in accordance with established laws, sometimes as they transit between jail, courtroom, prison, or other places. Includes deputy sheriffs and police who spend the majority of their time guarding prisoners in institutions.
Top three activity areas:
1. Stamina
2. Time spent walking or running
3. Explosive strength
8. Fallers
Overall activeness score: 54.8
What they do: Use axes or chainsaws to cut down trees and minimize damage.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2 (tie). Stamina
2 (tie). Trunk strength
7. Athletes and sports competitors
Overall activeness score: 55.2
What they do: Compete in athletic events.
Top three activity areas:
1. Stamina
2. Dynamic strength
3. Explosive and trunk strength
6. Fence erectors
Overall activeness score: 55.4
What they do: Build and fix fences and gates with hand and power tools.
Top three activity areas:
1. Time spent walking or running
2 (tie). Dynamic strength
2 (tie). Stamina and trunk strength
5. Forest firefighters
Overall activeness score: 55.6
What they do: Control and put out fires in forests or empty public land.
Top three activity areas:
1 (tie). Stamina
1 (tie). Trunk strength
2. Time spent walking or running
4. Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
Overall activeness score: 57.6
What they do: Set up and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete forms to reinforce concrete using tools like fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools.
Top three activity areas:
1 (tie). Time spent walking or running
1 (tie). Trunk strength
2. Stamina
3. Structural iron and steel workers
Overall activeness score: 60
What they do: Raise, place, and bring together iron or steel girders, columns, and other structural parts to make completed structures. Some iron and steel workers also build metal storage tanks and assemble premade metal buildings.
Top three activity areas:
1. Trunk strength
2. Time spent walking or running
3. Drynamic strength
2. Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors
Overall activeness score: 62
What they do: Guide exercise activities for groups or individuals. Demonstrate proper form and techniques, watch participants, and help teach them how to improve their skills.
Top three activity areas:
1. Stamina
2. Trunk strength
3. Dynamic strength