Colonial jobs included specialized trades like anchor smiths, ballast haulers, beaver hat makers, and chimney sweeps, as well as more general occupations like farmers, fishermen, innkeepers, and shoemakers. Common colonial industries involved producing iron, lumber, fish, and shipbuilding, as well as cultivating and processing crops like wheat, corn, tobacco, and rice. The middle colonies focused on wheat, corn, iron, lumber, and shipbuilding, while the southern colonies specialized in wheat, corn, tobacco, rice, fish, and lumber.