Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

Most strategists should excel at:

• Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

• Tying specified lengths of delaying fuses into patterns for timing sequences of explosions.
• Placing safety cones around blast areas for alerting other workers of danger zones, and signaling workers as necessary for ensuring completely clearing the blast sites prior to explosions.
• Placing explosive charges in holes or other spots; then detonating explosives to demolish structures or for loosening, removing, or displacing earth, rock, or other materials.
• Inserting, packing, and pouring explosives, such as dynamite, ammonium nitrate, black powder, or slurries into blast holes; then shoveling the drill cuttings, admitting water into boreholes, and tamping material for compacting the explosive charges.
• Marking patterns, locations, and depths of charging holes for drilling, and issuing drilling instructions.
• Compiling and keep gun and explosives records in compliance with local and federal laws.
• Measuring depths of drilled blast holes, using weighted tape measures.
• Connecting electrical wire to primers, and covering charges or filling blast holes with clay, drill chips, sand, or other material.