The full title of this occupation is water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators which is a little too long as a headline, don’t you think? Anyway, with that longer title I think we all know what the job entails? Running the plants that purify our drinking water and then cleaning up the wastes after it’s come out of us again. It sounds like a most distasteful job to many but in these modern times it’s all done in near antiseptic factories and plants: the old images of actually going down underground into the sewers are restricted to the centers of the old cities.

There’s no specific and necessary educational qualification needed other than a high school diploma but it’s a great deal easier to get a job if you have a college degree. There are many vocational schools and community colleges that offer a college degree (or a certificate) in wastewater treatment technology which will boost the job opportunities considerably.

Using our EQSQ personality tests to see who might best fit this job I think it’s obvious that it’ll be the systemizers who do best. It’s a form, a branch, of engineering and as such is very much a male brain job.

One thing worth noting is that it’s a very well paid job for something that only requires that two year college degree at most. $35,000 a year or so on average, and as most such jobs are with local government they come with all of the usual associated options, such as health care, pension and so on.