Also called: Meat Market Manager
Runs a grocery store's meat counter: cutting, ordering, displays, and food safety.
A meat manager breaks down beef sections, sets out cuts for the weekend sale, trains new meat cutters, and checks every temperature log.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 3 years after high school. Meat cutting experience, often an in-store apprenticeship.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Meat Science.
Growing slowly. Steady.
Low risk for 10 years. Meat plants automate, but in-store cutting, ordering and the counter stay hands-on.
Classes: Culinary arts CTE, Business, Animal science (FFA/Ag CTE).
Official data: O*NET occupation 41-1011.
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