What did you want to be when you grew up? Names of jobs and careers in English focus on what the person is actually doing. If you know many nouns and verbs in English, learning names of jobs will be super easy for you.

Let’s start with -er/-or jobs. When we use -er/-or it often means something or someone does something.

Here are some examples of jobs or careers ending with -er/-or:

Doctor

Tailor

Actor

Firefighter

Painter

Manager

Driver

Racer

Cleaner

Lawyer

Inventor

Engineer

Mentor

Teacher

Tutor

But, not all jobs and careers have -er/-or endings. Some end with -ist and others don’t seem to have any pattern. Here are some that end with -st and others that are helpful to memorize:

Dentist🦷

Artist

Scientist

Police Chief

DJ (disk jockey)

Jockey

Lumberjack

Seamstress

Actress

Chef

Mailman/mailwoman

Businessman/businesswoman

Have you thought of any that weren’t mentioned in these lists? Well done! Keep studying and learning new words!

-You Are Learning English Team

A group of experienced and certified ESL and English as a Foreign Language teachers.