Floral Designers
On the Job
Floral Designers, also called florists, cut and arrange live, dried, or silk flowers and greens to make a floral bouquet. They also help customers select flowers or bouquets.
Physical Demands
This career requires good eyesight and time standing, walking, or running.
Typical Work Tasks
People who work in this career often:
- Develop artistic or design concepts for decoration, exhibition, or commercial purposes.
- Maintain records, documents, or other files.
- Arrange artwork, products, or props.
- Construct distinctive physical objects for artistic, functional, or commercial purposes.
- Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
- Provide educational information to the public.
- Select materials or props.
- Confer with clients to determine needs.
- Train others on work processes.
- Arrange delivery of goods or services.
Typical Working Conditions
- Having telephone conversations.
- Dealing with external customers.
- The freedom to determine tasks, priorities, and goals.
- Using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
- Freedom to make decisions without supervision.
- Meeting strict deadlines.
- Working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions.
- Responsibility for outcomes and results.
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