Shoe & Leather Worker
- Craft unique leather goods with precision and creativity for diverse uses.
- Enhance everyday items with skilled leatherwork, impacting fashion and utility.
- Blend tradition and innovation in leather crafting for personalized, lasting products.
💰 Earn $36K-$43K
📚 High School Diploma or GED
Overview
Construct, decorate, or repair leather and leather-like products, such as luggage, shoes, and saddles. May use hand tools.Scoop
High School Diploma or GED
Risky (Decreasing by 5% or more)
Day-to-Day
- Dye, soak, polish, paint, stamp, stitch, stain, buff, or engrave leather or other materials to obtain desired effects, decorations, or shapes.
- Cut out parts, following patterns or outlines, using knives, shears, scissors, or machine presses.
- Construct, decorate, or repair leather products according to specifications, using sewing machines, needles and thread, leather lacing, glue, clamps, hand tools, or rivets.
- Repair and recondition leather products such as trunks, luggage, shoes, saddles, belts, purses, and baseball gloves.
- Align and stitch or glue materials such as fabric, fleece, leather, or wood, to join parts.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Using data or completing tasks
- Working with my hands
- Being creative or artistic
You are skilled in 💫
- Operation and Control
- Operations Monitoring
- Critical Thinking
- Speaking
- Quality Control Analysis
- Monitoring
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Accomplishing things
- Having freedom
In Action
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Shoe & Leather Worker
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