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When I grow up, I want to be ... This category also includes some things that aren't quite jobs but are definitely vocations - such as being a wizard or vampire!

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W is for Waiter

A waiter is a male person who waits on tables in a restaurant, serving customer's food and drinks and clearing tables when they are finished.

W is for Waitress

A waiter is a female person who waits on tables in a restaurant, taking orders, serving customer's food and drinks and clearing tables when they are finished.

W is for Weaver

A weaver is someone who makes cloth or other textiles like rugs on a loom.

W is for Welder

A welder is someone who makes things out of metal for a living. Welders use special tools to join pieces of metal together to make things like ships.

W is for Wizard

A wizard can also be known as a magician or a sorcerer. Wizards practise magic, and learn their art from many years of studying books. Wizards are usually portrayed as in the picture, as an old man with a long white beard, wearing robes and a pointed hat.

W is for Woodturner

A woodturner is a person who makes or shapes objects by cutting wood with a sharp blade while it spins on a wood lathe, which is a process called turning.

Woodturners often make bowls, chair or table legs, bedposts and banister spindles.

W is for Work

You work to get something done, to achieve something. Some kinds of work require a lot of physical effort, other types of work require a lot of thinking. Most people are employed by someone else who pays them to work.

W is for Wright

Wright is the profession and the surname of someone who makes things from wood, particularly parts of vehicles, eg a cartwright makes carts, and a wheelwright makes wheels.

W is for Writer

A writer is someone who writes books, stories or articles for a living. If you are writing a book it may take a very long time to find a company who will print it so that lots of people can read it. Most writers write for newspapers or magazines. Once someone has had something published, they are formally called a writer.