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Whether mucking out the stables or enjoying life in the saddle, horse breeders spend their days looking after horses and ponies. They’re entirely responsible for their health, wellbeing and breeding.

What stocks should you invest in? Is now a good time to buy or sell? How can you tell? If you want to be certain about your investments – or as certain as you can be – it’s better to have a financial analyst on hand, rather than a crystal ball.

Carpenters design, shape and install the components that define a building’s structure, whether it's a home, commercial building or factory. They use all their experience, creative muscle and knowledge of geometry and mathematics in perfecting their craft.

What would happen if you forgot to get your deeds of sale, your will, or some other important document notarised by a professional? Well, it would be worth nothing. Nada. Zilch. You’d probably need to shred it and start all over again. As public officials, notaries play a key role with life’s important paperwork.

Specialists in the water cycle, hydrologists manage the quality and quantity of water available to us. They work to make the best possible use of our planet’s aquatic resources.

Whether cutting, styling or colouring... a hairdresser’s job is to look after their client’s hair, listening carefully to their wishes and getting their hair to look its very best.

Responsible for entire collections within museums, curators protect and promote our heritage. It’s thanks to their hard work that a plethora of artefacts and works of art are still around for us to enjoy today.

Beyond their image as always being the bearers of bad news, bailiffs have plenty of other responsibilities, from establishing the facts of a case to informing people of decisions taken by the court and verifying their application.

Palaeontologists seek to understand living creatures of the past by studying their fossils. Tyrannosaurus teeth, mammoth tusk or perhaps even a plant fossil? There really is something for everyone!

While traders on the floor are busy shouting orders to buy and sell over the phone, rapidly firing off emails and even just yelling across the room, it’s no secret that without a well-run back office, the entire financial market would grind to a halt!

We all have adverts or slogans that stick in our minds... and that means a creative director somewhere has done their job properly! A key role within communications agencies, they offer their creative vision and oversee teams.

BIM (building information modelling) is a fairly recent collaborative engineering process, which is based on modelling data from building or renovation projects.

Cooks, managers, leaders... head chefs wear many hats, along with their big white ones! Whether it’s a self-service canteen, a gastro-pub, a school dining hall or a Michelin-star restaurant, there’s only ever one boss in the kitchen, and that’s the head chef.

Before launching a new day cream or antibiotic, someone needs to check every new product meets regulatory standards before giving it the green stamp of market approval. That’s where regulatory affairs officers come in.

What’s the best way to attract recent graduates and make them want to join your company? Those are the questions that school relations managers grapple with on a daily basis.