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.

Is someone you know (a neighbor, family member, friend, etc.) working on a home improvement DIY project? Volunteer to help in order to get practice using hand tools, taking measurements, problem solving, and more!

Volunteer to help with a home improvement project.

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.

Tile and Stone Setters

Apply hard tile, stone, and comparable materials to walls, floors, ceilings, countertops, and roof decks.

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

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Tile and Marble Setters

Carpet, Floor, and Tile Installers and Finishers

Construction and Extraction Occupations

Construction Trades Workers

Align and straighten tile using levels, squares, and straightedges.

Finish and dress the joints and wipe excess grout from between tiles, using damp sponge.

Cut and shape tile to fit around obstacles and into odd spaces and corners, using hand and power cutting tools.

Determine and implement the best layout to achieve a desired pattern.

Mix, apply, and spread plaster, concrete, mortar, cement, mastic, glue or other adhesives to form a bed for the tiles, using brush, trowel and screed.

Study blueprints and examine surface to be covered to determine amount of material needed.

Measure and mark surfaces to be tiled, following blueprints.

Lay and set mosaic tiles to create decorative wall, mural, and floor designs.

Apply mortar to tile back, position the tile, and press or tap with trowel handle to affix tile to base.

Mix and apply mortar or cement to edges and ends of drain tiles to seal halves and joints.

Tile and Stone Setters

Overview

Career

What Tile and Stone Setters Do

Other Job Titles Tile and Stone Setters May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Tile and Stone Setters

Overview

Career

What Tile and Stone Setters Do

Other Job Titles Tile and Stone Setters May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Education

Level of Education Attained by Tile and Stone Setters

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