Construction and Building Inspectors
It isn’t until you start really looking at the statistics until you find, as I am doing, quite how many people actually work in various trades and professions. Construction and building inspectors? I’d have thought a few thousand for the entire country: shows how much I know then. Nearly 100,000 of them making sure that houses and offices don’t fall down upon us. They’re also pretty well paid, the average at about $40,000 or so, right on the average household income for the country.
That’s surpisingly well paid for a job where the formal requirements are experience and a high school graduation certificate. Yes, many do have a two year college degree, there are many community, vocational and technical schools offering a college degree in buildings inspection and having one will certainly help in landing a good job. But even that looks like a pretty easy way of getting into the salaried middle classes. I would imagine that the low requirements for entry are explained by the necessity of continuing education: as the building codes are constantly changing everyone in the profession has to keep up to date, often through some form of online education.
As for our EQSQ tests, which personality type would be best suited? The male brain type, the systemizing one, without a doubt. Attention to detail (as well as some engineering skill) is the important point. The job isn’t so much checking that a building is safe, rather, that the correct procedures, in detail, have been followed.
