Jobs that start with A

A is for Accountant

An accountant is someone whose job is to manage other people's professional finances. Accountants will help in getting records into the correct format to transfer them to places like the the taxation department.

Photographic Dictionary / Generated Illustration

A is for Acrobat

Jobs, Stage & screen

An acrobat, sometimes called an aerialist, is someone who does activities like juggling, tumbling, tightrope-walking and other gymnastics. Today, acrobats are usually seen at a circus. Before television, travelling acrobats would visit towns and castles to perform for the people's entertainment.

Hervé Simon / CC BY-SA

A is for Actor

Jobs, Stage & screen

An actor is someone who plays pretend for a living. Actors put on plays on stage, or are in movies or television shows pretending to be someone else or someone made up. Their job is to entertain people. Sometimes a female actor is called an actress.

Smoobs / CC BY-SA

A is for Actress

Jobs, Stage & screen, Female

An actress is a female actor. Actresses may be seen on stage, on television or in movies.

Jeff Hitchcock / CC BY-SA

A is for Alchemist

Jobs

An alchemist is someone who practices alchemy. While this was a profession in the distant past, today the term alchemist is generally used to refer to someone who creates things in a seemingly magical way, for example "this mobile app is so good, I think it was created by a bunch of alchemists".

Photographic Dictionary / Generated Illustration

A is for Archaeologist

Jobs

An archaeologist is someone who studies cultures and societies that no longer exist, by examining what they have left behind. Where a city or other settlement used to be, there will be lots of things still there after the people have moved on, such as the remains of pottery, weapons, houses and of course the bones of the people themselves.

Capture The Uncapturable / CC BY-SA

A is for Archer

Jobs

An archer is someone who uses a bow to shoot arrows for a living. In earlier times, an archer would have been a hunter or someone in an army. Today, archery is a sport or hobby.

Mark Fischer / CC BY-SA

A is for Architect

Jobs

An architect is someone who designs houses and buildings.

Wonderlane / CC BY-SA

A is for Artist

Jobs

An artist is someone who paints pictures or makes sculptures for a living. Artists do not usually make very much money.

John Loo / CC BY-SA

A is for Astronaut

Jobs, Astronomy

An astronaut or cosmonaut is someone who goes above the Earth into space on a spaceship. Astronauts sometimes visit the moon, and perhaps in the future they will visit other planets too.

NASA image and video library / Public Domain