Construction professionals build, maintain, and repair homes, factories, skyscrapers, amusement parks, highways, ports, bridges, and many other structures. Expert electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and heavy equipment operators like to work with their hands and solve problems, and they don't mind getting a little dirty to get the job done. Other construction professionals--such as architects, cost estimators, and engineers--work in offices with computers, and also at construction sites. Construction is just one of 10 exciting titles in the Getting Started series. In this book, you'll learn about dozens of career options, typical education paths, ways to pay for training (e.g., scholarships, grants), methods of exploring the field while in school (e.g., summer camps, competitions, clubs, books, websites, tours, information interviews), and much more.