drake+davenport

== __//My Career //__ == ==Construction is the use of wood, metal, pipes, rocks (concrete/bricks), wires, and ect. You use these materials to build houses, sidewalks, and other stuff. You just need to know how to use hand and power tools and know what you are doing. But you also need to know how to do math! ==

__//Why I chose this career //__
==I chose this career because many people want to know how to build or make things using wood or metal. But what most people don't relize is that they need to know math. Without math, most buildings today will be crooked or maybe even destroyed as soon as it is built. But with math, those buildings will be strong, sturdy, and last a long time. == ==__//Skills & Mathematics to know //__ == ==You first need to know how to draw up a set of blue prints of whatever you are making with the correct lengths, widths, and heights. Just know how to measure things and how to use power tools. And if you don't know math, then the actual project will come out wrong. You will be using mathematics to find the lengths of whatever your blue prints say. Construction mostly uses basic math, but the hardest math related thing to know is the Pythagorean Theorem (a^2 + b^2 = c^2). ==

__//How I need to get their //__
==I have already taken construction classes for my freshmen and sophmore years, and I plan to take them again. I partically know math, but its good enough because basic math is every easy. Their are 2 and 4 year colleges around, and I plan to take a 2 year course of construction. Four more years of school is too much for me! I already know how to use the pythagorean theorem, so the math part is out of the way. Now I just need to study up on the tools used in construction. ==