If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?
If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?
Sometimes on Lemmy these seem like the only jobs that actually exist, but I'm sure there's a lot of people here with different and unusual lines of work.
Wastewater-based epidemiology. Basically we track infectious diseases in wastewater, and the results guide public health decisions.
As someone who is doing disaster response consulting for healthcare and public health: I fucking love you guys. You make my job sooo much easier.
Seriously.
The surveillance you folks do is pretty much indisputable and far more incorruptible compared to everything else we do, in healthcare especially.
Very often you are my "discussion ending gun" when decision makers endlessly want me to prove their (flawed) point of view. A "nope, here are validated wastewater based numbers, you are wrong" is extremely satisfying sometimes.
Thanks folks!
Thanks for helping make sure I don't shit myself to death. I assume you help with that.
Actually COVID is one of the most used tests they do, at least around here. But you can do things like drug use, cancer epidemiology (for some cancers), etc. as well - and that is incredibly helpful from a public health point of view.
Because it's just like with Covid - we can't get proper data from patient sided tests because we can't test everyone. And even if we could,not everyone would.
But everybody poops/pees. And guys like OP interpolate from that.
As Philpo said, we mainly do covid, but we can do Norovirus, which is a common GI virus that can give you the shits.
Thank you for your service! One of the best things to come out of the pandemic IMO.
Engineer (p.s. don't become an engineer, it's not as great as they sold it to us)
Ain't that how all professional service are nowadays.
Doctors is the last gig and it is getting gutted as we speak.
Facts. I was talking to my doctor who is moving to Denver for another job soon. He was telling me how bad it was getting.
The hospital+clinics are forcing them to spend less time with patients,overbooking their schedules, and ordering tests that aren’t medically necessary to get the most out of a patient.
He’s leaving for a private practice job that’ll allow him to have more say so, it’s sad those who have been with him for the last 10+ years won’t benefit from him being around anymore.
I disagree, I'm an engineer and I prefer it over not engineering positions. My only ragret is not keeping up with coding since it was my favorite subject in college
My husband is an engineer. He loves his job most days.
Maybe it's my job, but I feel like I haven't had a job in the last decade that I really enjoyed. I might just be getting older and jaded.
That’s why I went backwards from SE back to IT. I enjoy working with people directly and helping them. It’s also a hell of a lot easier in terms of hours and crunches (we have no crunches).
Basically, I had to decide whether I wanted the money and “glamour” of working on a well-known hot project or to be generally happy with my life. I’m a lot happier now.
I think it depends on your field of engineering and how much you enjoy the work. I find environmental engineering to be satisfying and a very dependable/lucrative income compared to many other non-engineering fields I might have been interested in.
Add to that most other fields that pay similarly or higher (doctor, lawyer, etc) require more/costlier schooling and it's a pretty sweet deal to be able to go into the job market with only a bachelor's or masters and making a decent wage right off the bat.
Of course the same enshittification/race to the bottom for prices affects us too but I don't know if there's any career that escapes that entirely.
I would also think maybe certain engineering fields are more stable than others. Mine is particularly recession-proof since we're driven by regulation (and bipartisan-supported regulation at that), not the economy. Massive layoffs are not that common in many of the other more "physical" engineering fields like structural, electrical, or mechanical either and even if you are laid off there is usually another company hiring. The skills are pretty portable as well so if you want to change careers you have a pretty good chance at being successful.
Is it a field of rainbows and butterflies? No, but it's a hell of a lot better than plenty of other jobs out there and it pays the bills.
Oh, I know.
I'm a Stonemason, and I work in conservation.
Nice! I’m a trim carpenter and I work in historic preservation. I’m a project manager now but I worked my way up from laborer.
Nice!
OP clearly just wanted an excuse to show off their vast collection of response images....
Farmer!
Missed the opportunity to use Its not much but its honest work farmer. With the overalls, David Brandt.
When people work with hazardous materials, they hire me to make sure they do it safely or legally. I mostly work in waste handling, soil remediations and laboratories.
It's pretty fun and interesting, but it's been very bad for my enjoyment of homegrown food, swimming outdoors or going downwind of any industrial sites.
Safely OR legally? Shouldn't that be "and"?
Safely XOR Legally
"Either it's safe and it doesn't come up or it isn't and we have ourselves legally covered."
Some places skirt by the law and dump it where hazardous waste doesn't belong. This is done legally but is not at all safe.
Ah, ideally yes.
Thank you for what you do though, it's not glamorous work I'm sure but average person like me appreciates what you do
Branch manager at a 3 trade business (HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical). Very much enjoy beating the competition and taking all of their great talent because they can’t treat them well. It’s not hard to actually give a damn about your people. Turns out, if you do that they like working for you and end up performing even more.
I do cosplay erotica for a living. I make awesome costumes, I take them off, and just post to Patreon. I suppose it's kindof retail, as I'm giving the photos to people, as a reward for subscribing, but I set my own schedule and choose what goes out. The freedom is incredible
First, good on you. As a corpo wage slave who would not be good at either dressing up or removing said dressing, color me envious.
Second, any particular fandom pay the bills better than others?
Now that I'm asking I realize I probably don't actually want to know.
I specialize in powerful/domme energy characters, because unless you look like a little girl, you don't make money off the sweet/girl next door characters.
My most popular are Lady Dimitrescu (Resident Evil), Cammy (StreetFighter), Mad Moxxi (Borderlands), so video games, win!
Oh, and Velma... my most subscribers ever were for that set, but I shot with a porn star and it was my first girl on girl set. 😅
I run a business repairing consumer-grade 3D printers.
Sick. I have so many issues with my 3d printer printing petg. Such a pain in the ass.
PETG just is a pain in the ass sometimes. Really sensitive to moisture, and it loves to stick to hot metal. So it has a tendency to overextrude because of the steam, and bunch up on the nozzle, causing all sorts of havok.
The key to printing it is just keeping it dry -- the latest batches I've held feel like they're way softer than I remember, so I suspect mfgs are putting more glycol in it than before.
Also, do a sanity check and go back and print PLA from time to time. Sometimes you won't realize something else is wrong and you'll blame it on the filament, but something like the idler arm on the extruder is broken, etc.
You can print it on Textured PEI, or Glass - but I suggest putting a little glue stick down to act as a release agent on the PEI - PETG and PEI bond together too well in some instances (ESPECIALLY on smooth PEI)
I used to work at a place that made envelopes and printed forms.
Fascinating seeing 12 foot tall stacks of rolls of paper.
Used to work at a newspaper, can confirm. Giant rolls of paper are pretty cool.
Me too, right when the digital age was taking over. I was young so they had me help design display ads in illustrator. We'd print out the ads with the articles on a laser printer. Cut them and arrange on a page that was then photographed. It was the future back then lol.
I'm a therapist, and I train other therapists. And I supervise some therapists and I train other therapists to supervise other therapists. And I manage a team of therapists who train other therapists and who train other therapists to supervise other therapists.
Kind "in it" at this stage.
So, what do you do when you need therapy?
I find a therapist I don't know!
There's a few of them about!
Wow you're pretty high up there. So that sounds like you are yourself a supervisor and supervisor educator and supervisor educators' supervisor? Like some kind of a consulting group where my supervisors probably got trained? I don't actually know who does the licensing for supervisor status - I'm guessing it's just like the entry level where you have to get hours from anywhere that the state board vetted and stamped off on? It's so interesting to me how state licensure has such a long relationship with private entities.
I'm in the UK so it's a different structure than the US, and the role is different too, less overlap with the medical approach.
Most of what we so is training counsellors, the training of qualified counsellors in how to provide clinical supervision is a small part of it.
We're a private training company, doing counselling, legal, medical and accounting. I work for the counselling part of course.
Im an electrician, it's pretty sweet if you ask me. Not necessarily the job itself, but the money you can earn doing side-jobs
Are these side jobs under the table or things you actually have to get permits for? I've known a few people who do the former and it can be really lucrative
Depends really, some you just kind of go in and do, get paid, and head out. Some you have to properly sit down and get it inspected.
Keep in mind though that I am a baby electrician, I've only got like 6-7 months experience, so I might not be the best person to ask about this.
I used to be a Janitor, and now I'm a web designer. I still go to trash businesses and make them all pretty.
I'm a storyboard artist/3d generalist. Basically I draw all day, everyday for short films and TV shows. I find it pretty awesome because A) I love to draw and now I get paid to do it which is, from what I understand, very uncommon for artists. B) I'm helping shape a story from basically beginning to end. C) I also get to do silly voices sometimes when they need someone to fill in.
But, a big downside is that I'm sitting and staring at a screen around 6 to 7 hours a day which destroyed my eyes and I get leg strain sometimes from sitting. I want to get a stand up desk eventually.
I coordinate an academic makerspace at a college.
I put $1000 in bitcoin in 2012
Then i wake up from my dream and calibrate temperature sensors on medical refrigerators
Teach at a university
Teaches IT
I did think that after I commented. Mais non, teaching English Linguistics in France.
I'm glad to see there's a few of us in the 5 figure salary club here!
I'm scientific support for a major pharma company. I tell people my job is essentially to be Hank Hill, as I'm in charge of compressed and liquid gases. I keep everyone squared away with liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, liquid argon, and any number and size of gas cylinder.
It's not a bad job. Pay is ok for what I do, people are generally nice, and most days I'm done the bulk of my work in 2-3 hours, so the rest of the time is mine unless someone needs something.
The rest of the day I'll prep and respond to posts here, study music, read comics or books, and watch cartoons. Nobody seems to care as long as the work gets done.
It's low stress and a decent environment, so I got no complaints. It's not as good as my last job, doing data analysis of hazardous chemicals. The place was generally run really well and almost all my work was doing daily reports on inventory. I made macros to do everything, so my work was done in less than half an hour most days and I got to work at home.
Being a nobody in pharma is pretty great as long as your group is cool.
Mind if I ask a work question? I purchased a cannister of CO2 for a kitchen appliance, but have another project requiring nitrogen. Are there any cleaning procedures or vacuum seal requirements before changing gases to prevent contaimination/interaction?
It's more of a warehouse job than a science job, so I'm probably not qualified to help, but I love learning, so I did some reading.
Different mixes of CO² and nitrogen are available for both carbonating/nitrogenizing beer, and further mixes designed to pressurize the lines for dispensing. Replacement beverage o-rings seem to come in a number of materials from polyurethane, silicone, teflon, and others and looking at o-ring compatibility charts, they all seem to both be listed as compatible for nitrogen and CO².
Since you're not dealing with liquid gas, I don't think you need to worry so much about material as if you're using something food safe made for beverages, it doesn't seem to be an issue what they're made of or which gas you use as far as I can find. You also shouldn't need to worry about the nitrogen freezing the CO² and forming dry ice from the amount I could imagine you using at home.
Without knowing more about what exactly you're working on, that's the best general help I can dig up. Depending on what exactly you're doing, finding a good homebrew or scuba shop/forum could probably get you the most reliable answer to what you're working on since they'll both be blending those gases in a manner safe for the human body.
I hope that was at least marginally helpful!
I did work in IT, but now I'm retired young. I could go back to work and make double my income, but I just don't wanna. I'd rather have less income with a stable, comfortable life and the freedom to do whatever I want every day, than spend all day stuck in a job just to have no free time to enjoy the extra money I'd be bringing home.
I'd too choose freedom over more money anyday.
How did you retire early and at what age? If you don't mind my asking
I served in the US military. I was in the Air Force, but my profession was IT, so I spent my whole service working as a sysadmin.
You can officially retire and collect a pension after only 20 years served. I joined at 18, so I retired at 38 years old. Normally, a 20-yr pension isn't enough to fully retire on, but I got a bit messed up during my service. The VA gave me a 100% disability rating, which includes a monthly pay bigger than my pension! Plus. My wife also served and was medically discharged with a 100% disability rating as well. So she gets the same medical benefits and pay as I do (minus a pension).
With all three sources of passive income, we can live without working. We're not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but we pull in enough to live comfortably and have all our basic needs met.
Like I said, I could go back into the IT field and double my current income (or more), but then I'd be stuck working all the time again, and I don't want to do that. The military was a 24/7 gig for 20 years. "Service Before Self" was one of our core values; we always had to prioritize the mission over our personal lives, and we could be recalled to work any time, day or night. So it's nice to actually have some "me time" now, where no one can make me go anywhere or do anything. Not looking to go back to work and give that up so soon.
I'm a museum curator based in Europe (very different from the Americas). It's a wonderful job of travel, being close to history and bringing some goodness into the world, if you don't mind the salary of working for a charity.
Librarian at a PreK-5 school (3-11 years old). I teach 45 minute classes to everyone each week. 700 kids, 32 classes. Less stress than classroom teaching while still following the same schedule.
Insurance claims investigation. In-house PI, essentially
Kinda like that but I'm fatter and swarthier
I'm in IT, but one of my lifelong friends is a radio tower climber. He drives up to the mountains, climbs these 500' radio towers, and repairs them. Another close friend is an audio engineer. Another close friend owns a taxi company in a small tourist town. Another friend is a building maintenance manager. Another friend is a regional bank manager. There are millions of jobs out there. Lemmy just attracts a specific kind of person.
I'm an artist in animation ✏️
I work with school kids who have disabilities.
I work as a theatre tech (light and sound) at a college(theatre arts department). I do however use Linux and made some scripts in Python to control my ligtdesk and sound table. So a bit of IT related work. But also talk with students about the creative part of lights, sound and projection and how they can use it during and after there study in there shows.
I also do some shows for them in the small Theatre in the college and outside the college.
And give them a workshop teaching them the basics and how they can tell to a tech what they want and how they can do somethings themselves.
How many years did you prepare the image collection before asking this question, OP?
I work in IT, by the way. (Don't use Arch though, Tumbleweed crew represent!)
Tumbleweed gang 🤙
I'm a linehaul driver, pic from my first day at this job. I pull a set of double-trailers back and forth between two company terminals overnight. Same route each time, home every day. Pretty chill and easy work, I just listen to audiobooks and podcasts all night as I try not to slap anyone with my back trailer. any recommendations for something new to listen to I'd love to hear it
Snack food manufacturing, running machines that put snacks into bags and then those bags into boxes.
No fork lift access unfortunately!
Whilst I am doing a CS degree now, for the last 9 years I was a 5 axis CNC machinist for stone products. I still do It part time as they haven't found a replacement yet (after a year lmao).
I'm a rope access industrial radiographer.
Edit: colloquially known as a "bomber"Had to look this up. So you climb up stuff to get radio data or what does that entail? Why do they call you "bomber"?
Not quite. We climb / rappel structures, mostly oil rigs. And use a gamma radiation source to check for weld defects.
We're known as bombers because the source container, a techops sentinel 880 or a SCAR projector look a lot like bombs and we blast radiation all over the place causing issues to the nucleonic sensors so over the place.
Machine maintenance / Macgyver. We make air filters and I have to make sure the machines that make them are running.
I also do any other random jobs. Currently I'm creating a simple webpage to submit machine issues that get sent to a Google sheet and an email sent out.
I also machine metal replacement parts. Of course I make any personal projects I want to as well.
Mathematics Lecturer (just teaching foundation mind).
It's far more fun than people think, but with next to no real holidays (summer is actually quite busy). Also it sucked being on temporary contract, because you had no idea if you'd have work in 12 months no matter how good you were.
Construction electrician
me too. just started actually. well actually VDV
Electronics RF Engineer, working with legal compliance. Loads of calculations, measurements, and paperwork. Occasionally, I'll get to test something with cool expensive equipment.
State government paper pusher
Your dedication to finding appropriate responses is appreciated.
Soon to be qualified plumber, maybe a month to go or so.
I salute you, future turdherder.
Had a plumber friend joke that what he learned in plumbing school was, "Shit flows downhill and payday is Friday." As an adult I think plumbers really earn their money when the shit is flowing the wrong direction. Here's to a great career filled with... Interesting challenges.
Electrical Designer - HVAC switchboards & systems primarily
Prep school teacher for international middle school kids hoping to go to an English-speaking high school.
Teach all the basic intro classes in an accelerated high school curriculum the semester before they attend high school so that when they get there the language barrier, new facts and different educational style doesn't crush them mercilessly.
Drive people to the hospital.
Is your job really a dangerous as they make it out to me? Like I understand the lights and trying to rush through traffic can be dangerous but don't most people just kind of pull off to the side like you're supposed to?
Just my opinion here, but once the thrill of driving lights and sirens wears off (which is unfortunately quite soon) you realise that the benefit to risk ratio isn't what you thought. People are supposed to pull over (this varies by jurisdiction), but in reality people panic and do a lot of irrational and unexpected things. Which is why are probably a lot more choosy about it's use than people realise, at least here (heading to the hospital - heading to a call is based on the caller's description and dispatch, but we are allowed to nope for safety). It also doesn't save the time one thinks it does (but it's pretty slick for getting through lights - this is the time saver).
I don't blame drivers though. They're trying to do the right thing but everyone has a different idea of that even if it's to full-stop in place. There was no formal training for me as a driver on what to do when sirens approach, and if there was it was changed since and muddied by countless buddy tales. For example, here you are supposed to pull to the closest side, but used to be the right IIRC. Sirens are HARD to hear when driving and blaming drivers for loud music is kinda bullshit when sirens aren't actually that effective. Lights are ineffective in some environments. Other environments have multiple sirens going on.
I do customer service for a shipping company. Alot of my calls are just people complaining about how much this company sucks ( they are not wrong ) but work from home and put very little effort in my job and spend a lot of time gaming at work . I also have a morning job delivering news papers and amazon packages which I actually kind of like but does not have full time opportunities.
Conference & Event Services for a local college.
(I didn't know what that meant until I started here, but essentially, we are the campus party planners)
Correspondence delivery profesional
(postal worker)
Manufacturing
Engineering
Currently as intern at a municipality as financial advisor. Hoping to get a job from within the municipality.
Does consulting for energy utilities helping them improve their mapping systems (GIS) count as IT? I do manage cloud infrastructure but also assist with all the various pieces and parts that go into digital maps and integrations.
Yeah i would call anything actually working in GIS beyond reading what's there or adding dots or lines to it an IT job.
I'm a case manager for a local org that supports people with intellectual disability. I like my job, I set my own hours, and even if there was no profit motive it would still need to be done. My only complaint is where I brush up against the capitalistic intersection, so the county is our funder and they really pinch every penny compared to, say the sheriffs' office.
I work at a shipyard servicing and rebuilding engines.
I’m an engineer in a manufacturing environment
Quality Director for a multinational manufacturing company
Intermediate CS teacher
Grumpy sound guy.
Solar installer, I put solar panels on things and get them working. Recently my company got a reputation for competence with floating solar arrays so we've been traveling to build and fix them all over the country. Electricity and water is a fun combo.
I'm a psychiatric RN out in the community. I work with people who have thought disorders like schizophrenia at their homes or under the bridges.
Healthcare
I work as a car photographer in a dealership. We sell cars online so whenever we get a new car or someone trades in their car I take pictures of all the features the car has. However when there's few cars for me to photo I'm also responsible for checking what cars are dirty. My only complaint is that I don't really care about Toyotas and I work for a Toyota dealership
I'm a product development engineer in the biomedical industry. Although from what I read it seems I should have taken a few extra courses in school and gone into software engineering. However I do still enjoy my work (not more than not having to work, but still.)
Emergency humanitarian response program planning/monitoring/evaluation with a UN agency.
Realtor and brand and marketing consultant for our brokerage. Not the astronaut or veterinarian I pictured myself as a kid. But still, I’m happy :)
UPS delivery
Not all heroes wear capes! Unless your the type to launch and kick packages.
Watch the mentally disabled. Most of the time they just need a friend so I get paid to hangout with em. Just gotta make sure they get their meds and food on time. Hell a few weeks ago I got paid to go to a baseball game cause he wanted to go.
Assuming you don't have to help them shower, or potty, that sounds like an awesome job! Does it pay a living wage?
Nah, but at least I get full coverage... Looking for a second job soon
I manage a service engineering team for semiconductor equipment.
Safety adviser currently in airport safety
You just clock in everyday say don't use Boeing and then leave?
If it's not Boeing, I'm not going... to crash. Probably.
HSE consultant: I teach people how not to be in the next Darwin Awards
I don't really have a title, but I work in a factory.
Go to college kids. Fuck the expense, you still get many more opportunities that a factory scumbag like myself does not. If you don't know what you want or what you're capable of, who cares. Go anyway for anything and you'll meet people who you can network with and you'll be exposed to classes and topics you might not ever have considered. I'm the only scumbag failure in my friend group who didn't go to college and I'm the only loser working in a literal sweat shop while they all work from home with very nice salaries and wives/husbands they met at college. I'm still single.
Go to college.
Transportation engineer (in training) working for an engineering consulting firm! Primarily helping design active transportation infrastructure and road reconstructions.
Quality tech in manufacturing
I approve people applying for disability benefits.
That's awesome! Most others seem to only deny people applying for disability benefits.
This needs more upvotes haha
I'm a truck driver, well nowadays more in the office than behind the wheel but I do still pull loads here and there.
And you pull my load of bullshit onto Lemmy!
I unironically love ya!
Well just keep bringing me your loads and I'll uh.... yeah what I mean to say is thanks.
Healthcare. I'm the senior Pharmacy Tech for our little independent psych pharmacy.
Before joining healthcare, I worked both food service, and have my degree in Computer Science. I try to keep my passion of food alive in my home kitchen, and mix CS into my job responsibilities, and hobbies.
Behavioral healthcare
Budget analyst
Drink service
Acquisitions manager for a library
Commercial wide format print shop owner
Nonprofit
Category Buyer for a large manufacturing company.
Honey dipper, lighthouse keeper, lamp lighter, encyclopedia deliveries, phrenologist, and whaler.
Physician associate in mental health
Does it count if i used to work in IT?
I still work in IT but I used to too.
In my youth I worked at a 24 hour gas station/restaurant for 2 weeks. It was robbed twice (not while i was there) and someone hit and ran and smashed up my car all in 2 weeks. But i did get unlimited coffee, pop and donuts (after 6pm) so overall I'd give it a 3/5.
Engineering at national lab
Screenprinting. I also did work as a quality tech for machining. Manufacturing jobs in general do not seem to get any public recognition even though they can be some of the most engaging and can cater to a lot of people that don’t enjoy the employee-customer relationship.
That being said, finding the sweet spot for management can be a challenge.
It’s a career path that’s practically ignored in schools and I wish math classes used more examples from engineering and manufacturing to answer the age-old “Where am I ever going to use this?” question.
My son does screenprinting. He really, really likes the job, but he works with an asshole.
Edit to clarify that he works with one asshole, not assholes in general.
He screen prints on assholes? Sweet I've been thinking about turning mine into a beholder
Clinical research, one little dent in our knowledge of medicine at a time.
Not unusual but accountant in a private company. Accounting, like IT, is great because you can work at just about any company. Though to be fair I do some IT like most accountants, there is overlap since so much of the systems work is accounting systems, I'm sure the IT guys feel they are doing some accounting.
Before I worked IT, I was a job coach. I helped individuals with disabilities perform their jobs and teach them skills and all that. It was pretty cool because they sent me to all kinds of different places. I did work in a hydroponics non-profit, a senior center, a DMV, a bank, and some other places. It was pretty cool and most of the individuals I worked with were really nice and cool.
I'm a die Cutter operator. I take printed sheets and turn them into boxes for food.
Physician Assistant in a Radiology dept.
My primary job is IT.
But I am also a fully licensed pyrotechnic operator in California and put on large public displays throughout southern California. I also help with safety seminars showcasing special effects used in the film industry to local fire authorities so they are familiar if a production films somewhere under their jurisdiction.
Clinical Mental Health Counseling, in-patient setting
garden and landscape building
I'm an attorney for a local government.
Commercial Real Estate Lending - Portfolio Management. I monitor loans for losses and collect periodic financial statements. I hate it. I used to do business loan underwriting and trying to get back into that. Had a dream job lined up but ended up failing the background check because of a bankruptcy 6 years ago.
I work in electrical power delivery for municipal transportation, supervision-level. Before that, I was a shoreside engineer (basically a mechanic, not an engineering degree) in marine services. My work has always come very organically, often starting in floor-sweeping assistant positions.
Construction Superintendent. But did IT work when I was younger haha.
Engineering.
Scientist
I am an accountant and prepare financial reports.
BDE
Plumber & Home improvement contractor
I recently started my own business and now I do variety of jobs related to home maintenance except electrical. If this'll pay enough to keep me and my SO fed then based on my experience so far it was the best decision of my life. It doesn't really even feel like work and 98% of customer encounters have been positive. I've gotten 5x more thank yous in 2 months than I got in 10 years at my previous job. We've all had bad experiences with shitty contractors. I truly try to not be one of them.
Machine operator. I run some CNC machines that are paired up with robots to handle the loading and unloading of the CNC's.
If and when industrial robots are hooked up to cameras and computers that can problem solve, my current job will be gone or very boring.
I work in individual support under the NDIS in Australia. The NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) is a system that disabled people can access to fund various needs not covered by our medical system. I help one client who has had a stroke with eating and massage, another client with woodworking and metalworking, another with cleaning and organising their house, and really anything else they need.
It is really flexible and allows us to meet their needs, not what someone else thinks their needs must be.
Student Service for one of college, accommodating for student(s) with disabilities.
Lumberjack (tree care professional)
Licensed US Customs Broker, I help my clients navigate getting their goods imported through US Customs.
Found the drug smuggler with connections to cartels.
Haha yes!
Public transport, manufacturing and service/maintenance.
Just by the numbers I would assume quite a few Lemmings work in utilities companies and healthcare.
For me it's healthcare. I am an EEG tech and sleep tech.
My "job" (I put it in quotes because it's more like a gig that's paid) is experimental and doesn't have a direct name, but I often shorten the explanation as working with media/reporting/archiving/charity.
Customer Service Rep is my title
CSR/AR/AP/Billing/IT is a lot closer to my actual workload
Before that I worked in the yard doing propane repair, and my name starts with Ha- so if I ever make Assistant Manager, well, I'll truly have become my childhood hero by complete fuckin accident.
Oh, I also used to be the guy responsible for keeping the people living up in the hills near Redding, CA with power after the fires 2 years ago. During the 6 rivers lightning complex fire in 2022 I was within a few hundred feet of the fire break crews while I was 4x4ing up mountainsides to keep generators full of fuel.
Shipping/Receiving at a custom print shop
I'm a Substation Designer. I work closely with electrical and mechanical engineers to design the layouts for electricity sites that transfer high-voltage electricity to low-voltage, and low-voltage to high-voltage. You drive by a few of these sites every day most likely, as they're a massive part of our electrical grid.
I stumbled into this job by accident, and I'm really glad I did, because I love it. :)
I work for a very large organization that deals in supporting nonprofit organizations (mainly) in part of a training team. My specific role is administrative support and curriculum development, as well as coordinating overall operations and logistics for one specific team.
Law enforcement, digital forensics. Not in the US.
Product Design, I work on the visual and user experience over the lifecycle of (currently) medical software.
I got my education in software engineering but have really enjoyed working a fairly unique logistical role in healthcare. I'm not particularly people-facing; I WFH; I work part-time; I get good benefits. The work-life balance has been just too good when it comes to raising kids.
I'm a software developer. I work in automotive and do a bit of everything from embedded programming to cloud based software.
If we started putting server-class chips on board next to the current ECU, would "the cloud" start to mean "someone else's car"? 🤔
Interesting thought, I did do some work with DSRC systems for Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication, but DSRC is still pretty rare. Back during Obama's presidency the OEMs seemed to just be exploring a bit and waiting to see if it became a mandated safety system, but that never materialized.
These days the market seems to be moving towards Cellular Vehicle to Vehicle on 5G ( peer-to-peer), but once these techs have more adoption I think it's more likely that the car would connect to a dedicated piece of infrastructure that would relay with the cloud. Despite there being movement towards having more computing power in vehicle, I.M.O. the OEMS are too conservative on spending for computing power, so I don't see a future where the cloud is other cars. If cars still exist in 20 years, I would be amazed if vehicle networks weren't ubiquitous for safety though.
Telecoms project engineer.
I supervise and co-ordinate the roll out of FTTH networks.
Public accountant/auditor
I'm on a 3-person marketing team for a local company. It's almost all content creation (designing internal docs, benefits and employee handbooks, on-location signs, promotional items, videos, engaging social media content) and the higher-ups are willing to let us try silly garbage if it's clever & engaging.
We also spend a lot of time crafting accessible communication (how-tos, breakdowns of charities we support and how, what events we have coming up) to make it easier for our employees as well as retail and industry customers & partners to figure us out and get the most out of what we have to offer.
I always thought marketing meant trying to sell people stuff they don't need, but it's mostly just us trying to make sure the people who are interested can hear us through the din on the chance we can help.
Consulting in healthcare/public health/public safety
Scanner monkey, working in the immigrant mines.
Research Analyst for businesses.
Telecommunications. Administration for a company that constructs fiber networks.
I work in garage door repair/replacement.
Doctor
I work in analytics. I usually enjoy the work. It's fun showing people insightful things, but it can be a drag when folks don't listen.
I guess DevOps or whatever the eff DevSecOps is
I’m the guy who helps our coders figure out how to build their stuff, our testers figure out how to automate their stuff, and help them follow good app security practices. Somehow im the expert in Java when they can’t figure it out, the expert in JavaScript, the expert in python, etc, based mostly on my Google skills. Luckily we hired someone else for Kubernetes because I just don’t have time to stay ahead of them. Today someone tried asking for help with Ruby and I had to draw the line
My manager tried to stick me on Windows when I started, but it’s really not supported for Engineering. Our products are all on variations of Red Hat and Amazon Linux, all our technical staff has Mac laptops, and management uses Windows for their presentations and stuff
