- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating or tending rides in amusement parks, carnivals or similar recreational establishments.
* Inspects ride equipment for operating condition and safety.
* Trains workers and performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who guesses weight of patrons at amusement park, carnival, or similar place of entertainment. Respnsibilities include:
* Attracts attention of passing public, vociferously proclaiming game and skill.
* Scrutinizes patron's physique and makes oral estimate of weight.
* Invites patron to stand on scale or to sit in seat attached to industrial scale, usually forfeiting prize if weight guessed is not correct within 2 or 3 pounds.
* May demonstrate personal skill in guessing patron's age, occupation, home state, or other related pertinent data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment by exhorting passing public, describing attractions of show and emphasizing variety, novelty, beauty, or some other feature believed to incite listeners to attend entertainment.
* May conduct brief free show, introducing performers and describing acts to be given at feature performance.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who induces customers to participate in games at concession booths in parks, carnivals, stadiums, or similar amusement places. Respnsibilities include:
* Describes types of games available to passing public to attract customers.
* Supplies customers with game equipment, such as toss rings or balls, distributes prizes to customers who win games, and collects fees for services.
* Cleans and repairs booth and keeps equipment in serviceable condition.
* May be designated according to type of game operated as Shooting Gallery Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who induces customers to participate in games at concession booths in parks, carnivals, stadiums, or similar amusement places. Respnsibilities include:
* Describes types of games available to passing public to attract customers.
* Supplies customers with game equipment, such as toss rings or balls, distributes prizes to customers who win games, and collects fees for services.
* Cleans and repairs booth and keeps equipment in serviceable condition.
* May be designated according to type of game operated as Shooting Gallery Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates or informs patrons how to operate mechanical riding devices furnished by amusement parks, carnivals, or similar places of entertainment. Respnsibilities include:
* Informs patron to fasten belt, bar, or other safety device.
* Moves controls to start and stop equipment, such as roller coaster, merry-go-round, and ferris wheel.
* Gives directions to patrons, usually over microphone, regarding safety and operation of such rides as midget autos and speedboats.
* Turns on current to permit operation of ride by patron and turns off current after allotted time.
* Drives vehicles, such as trains, on which persons ride, guiding and controlling their speed.
* Adds to or removes equipment, according to amount of patronage.
* Oils, refuels, adjusts, and repairs device.
* Tests equipment daily before opening ride to patrons.
* May notify patron of expiration of period for which fee was paid to use device.
* May observe patrons boarding vehicle to ensure they are safely seated without being overcrowded and safety belts or bars are secure.
* May collect tickets or cash fares from patrons.
* May space rides operated in cars or sections to avoid danger of collisions.
* May be designated according to equipment operated as Auto-Speedway Operator; Ferris-Wheel Operator; Flume-Ride Operator; Merry-Go-Round Operator; Monorail Operator; Railroad Operator; Roller-Coaster Operator; Speedboat Operator; Swing-Ride Operator; Train Operator; Whip Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates or informs patrons how to operate mechanical riding devices furnished by amusement parks, carnivals, or similar places of entertainment. Respnsibilities include:
* Informs patron to fasten belt, bar, or other safety device.
* Moves controls to start and stop equipment, such as roller coaster, merry-go-round, and ferris wheel.
* Gives directions to patrons, usually over microphone, regarding safety and operation of such rides as midget autos and speedboats.
* Turns on current to permit operation of ride by patron and turns off current after allotted time.
* Drives vehicles, such as trains, on which persons ride, guiding and controlling their speed.
* Adds to or removes equipment, according to amount of patronage.
* Oils, refuels, adjusts, and repairs device.
* Tests equipment daily before opening ride to patrons.
* May notify patron of expiration of period for which fee was paid to use device.
* May observe patrons boarding vehicle to ensure they are safely seated without being overcrowded and safety belts or bars are secure.
* May collect tickets or cash fares from patrons.
* May space rides operated in cars or sections to avoid danger of collisions.
* May be designated according to equipment operated as Auto-Speedway Operator; Ferris-Wheel Operator; Flume-Ride Operator; Merry-Go-Round Operator; Monorail Operator; Railroad Operator; Roller-Coaster Operator; Speedboat Operator; Swing-Ride Operator; Train Operator; Whip Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or several pieces of automatic equipment designed to amuse, excite, or mystify patrons of fun house in amusement park. Respnsibilities include:
* Switches on device that automatically blows blasts of air under women's skirts.
* Starts revolving turntables, conveyor belt, drum or similar device.
* Ejects rowdy persons from establishment.
* Observes equipment for efficient operation and repairs minor breakdowns in equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or several pieces of automatic equipment designed to amuse, excite, or mystify patrons of fun house in amusement park. Respnsibilities include:
* Switches on device that automatically blows blasts of air under women's skirts.
* Starts revolving turntables, conveyor belt, drum or similar device.
* Ejects rowdy persons from establishment.
* Observes equipment for efficient operation and repairs minor breakdowns in equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who launches and moors boats on lake or similar amusement place and shows patrons how to guide crafts, such as rowboats, canoes, and electric or gasoline motorboats. Respnsibilities include:
* Assists patrons stepping in or out of boats.
* Takes tickets from patrons.
* Demonstrates how to row, paddle, or guide boats.
* Tows disabled boats to dock for repair.
* Changes batteries of electric motorboats and refuels gasoline motors.
* Cleans, paints, varnishes, and makes minor repairs on motors, using handtools, to maintain boats in good condition.
* When working in boat-tank facility of amusement park, is designated Boat-Tank Attendant.
* See boat-rental clerk for rental of canoes, motorboats, rowboats, sailboats, and fishing equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
