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A professional who assists costumer in selecting costumes for and fitting them to performers. Respnsibilities include:
* Distributes costumes and wardrobe accessories to principals, extras, and bit players.
* Alters, repairs, presses, and spot-cleans costumes by hand or using sewing machine, electric iron, and cleaning fluid.
* Keeps records of costumes issued and returned.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who ensures that jockeys scheduled to ride are present in jockey room at racetrack and that their dress and riding equipment meet track specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Notifies jockeys when to dress.
* Inspects jockeys for specified colors (silks), saddle numbers, and riding equipment.
* Informs racetrack steward of jockeys not reporting to prepare for race.
* Maintains order in jockey room.
* Examines lead pads to determine that they meet track specifications.
* Gives directions to workers to clean jockey room.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who aids entertainer to dress and attends to clothing and costumes. Respnsibilities include:
* Arranges costumes in order of use.
* Unpacks clothes and costumes and places them for convenient use.
* Cleans spots from apparel.
* Presses costumes.
* Mends ripped seams or makes other minor repairs.
* May arrange for cleaning, pressing or laundering of costumes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attends to jockey at racetrack performing variety of services. Respnsibilities include:
* Saddles horse and inserts lead pads in saddle pockets to meet weight specifications for race.
* Places number on saddle to correspond with horse's entry number in race.
* Reads color assignment chart and obtains specific colors of silks from color room corresponding to stable colors.
* Assists jockey to dress for race.
* Unsaddles horse after race and returns riding equipment to storage area.
* Cleans saddles, washes silks, and shines boots for jockey.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who issues designated riding silks (colors) and identifying arm and saddle numbers to jockeys before each race, according to colors and numbers printed on program.
* Collects and stores silks and numbers after each race.
* Issues jackets to lead pony riders.
* Sends out soiled silks and jackets for cleaning.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who issues designated riding silks (colors) and identifying arm and saddle numbers to jockeys before each race, according to colors and numbers printed on program.
* Collects and stores silks and numbers after each race.
* Issues jackets to lead pony riders.
* Sends out soiled silks and jackets for cleaning.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who serves prizefighter between rounds by giving drinking water, sponging with water, and fanning with towel.
* Applies medications to minor injuries, such as cuts and bruises.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages stable of animals, trains animals for riding, and supervises workers engaged in handling and attending animals, selling rides, and assisting patrons to ride animals. Respnsibilities include:
* Purchases animals, feed and supplies.
* Examines animals for injury or symptoms of illness and arranges for veterinarian services when required.
* Trains animals for riding, performing tasks, such as teaching animals to walk, trot or gallop.
* Inspects facilities for cleanliness.
* Supervises and coordinates workers engaged in feeding, watering, grooming, harnessing and training animals, selling rides and assisting patrons to mount and ride animals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds, describes, and identifies fish enclosed in aquarium or community fish tank for public amusement. Respnsibilities include:
* Dons diving suit and helmet and drops to floor of tank to feed fish on scheduled show periods.
* Circulates among fish and delivers running commentary over sound system to amuse audience.
* Identifies for audience species of fish being fed, such as bat rays, sawfish, and sharks, and describes briefly life history of individual specimens, based on prepared text.
* Cleans bottom of tank, using suction hose, and clears algae from windows inside tank, using scrubbing brushes.
* Observes and reports diseased, injured, or dead fish.
* Gives routine medical treatment to fish as directed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies credentials and starting position of dogs in races and guards dogs against injury and illegal acts. Respnsibilities include:
* Verifies credentials of each dog entered in race, comparing color, name, and sex of dog and name of owner with information on racing form.
* Ensures that dogs are admitted to assigned stalls, notifying other workers to round up designated dogs in advance of each race.
* Guards dogs to prevent persons from injuring them or attempting illegally to influence dog's performance.
* Notifies owner or veterinary personnel in cases of injury or suspected illness.
* Notifies track officials of irregularities as required by racing regulations.
* May clean racing stalls after each race, using disinfectant solution.
Industry:Professional careers
