What does a Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal
actually do all day?
top skill Critical Thinkingcore tasks 6median pay $36,670AI exposure 0/100
Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals is fairly steady, on your feet, some people contact work.
What this job actually does all day
The representative tasks O*NET analysts recorded for this role — not a glossy job ad, the real work.
- Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
- Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
- Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.
- Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment.
- Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.
- Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals.
Skills & environment
Bars are O*NET importance/intensity ratings, scaled 0–100 so you can compare at a glance.
The skills it demands most
What the environment feels like
Deadline pressure: few hard deadlinesConflict & friction: rarely deals with conflictNeed to be exact: moderateTime spent sitting: mostly on your feet / movingContact with people: constantly dealing with people
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How this is built. Tasks, skills, and work-environment ratings come from the
U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET occupational analysis — job analysts survey real workers, so this is the
closest thing to "what the job is actually like" in public data. Skill scores are O*NET Importance
ratings (0–5) and environment measures are Context ratings (0–5), both rescaled to 0–100 here for
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pulled straight from the survey, not invented. Figures describe the typical role, not any one person's job.
