It is not for everyone, it is for the few who like to be surrounded by machinery and giant trucks every day.

A miner works with machinery to extract coal and minerals and bring them to the surface.

There seems to be a misconception in the wider community that there is something attractive or good about mining jobs other than pay.

But for someone in the career of the refining, mining construction, and production industries, you can emphatically state that mining jobs are tough jobs.

It wasn't always this way, but jobs in mining have become less and less desirable in the last 20 years.