Also called: Japanese Garden Gardener, Japanese Garden Curator
Cares for and designs Japanese-style gardens, shaping pines by hand, raking gravel and placing stones with careful, centuries-old methods.
You spend the morning in a pine tree, pulling old needles and pinching candles so the branches show their shape. In the afternoon you rake gravel into waves and help the curator plan where to set a new stone lantern.
Estimated; public gardens and private estate work.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 3 years after high school. High school or horticulture degree, plus long hands-on training under a master gardener.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Apprenticeship, 2-year college, 4-year college. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, Asian Studies.
Growing about average. Small field of public gardens and wealthy private clients.
Low risk for 10 years. Hand-pruning pines and placing stones by eye are crafts no robot can do soon.
Classes: Biology, Art, Japanese language.
Official data: O*NET occupation 37-3011.
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