Also called: Tiny Home Builder, Micro-Home Builder
Builds small homes, often on trailers, that pack a kitchen, bathroom and sleeping loft into a couple hundred square feet.
Inside a shop you frame a 24-foot house on a trailer, plumb it, wire it and build clever stairs with drawers. Every inch has to do double duty. Many builders run small businesses and post their builds online.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. Carpentry experience; some take tiny-house building workshops.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Self-taught. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Carpentry.
Growing about average. Small, popular niche.
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps with design and marketing, but building a full house on a trailer is hands-on carpentry, plumbing and wiring.
Classes: Woodshop, Geometry, Business.
Official data: O*NET occupation 47-2031.
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