Article: Dig, hoist, push, pull: do you love working with your hands and being outdoors? A career in heavy equipment operation may be right for you!(CAREER SPOTLIGHT)

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Terell Marcos and Jeff Enslin (at left) are stooped over, concentrating hard on the task at hand. The two 18-year-old students from Loch Raven High School in Baltimore County, Md., are smoothing concrete. In construction terminology, they're "placing and finishing." Working with concrete, Enslin says, "can be an art form." Adds Marcos, "It was hard at first, but I got the hang of it."

Nearly 500 students from 15 area high schools have converged on Alban Tractor, a construction equipment firm, in Baltimore as part of the 7th Annual Highway Construction and Engineering Career Day, sponsored in part by the State Highway ...

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