Just Curious - What's Everyone's Profession Here???
Just curious, what do you guys actually do for a living?
Scrolling through comments here, you can tell there's a huge mix of people, some clearly technical, some more creative, some who sound like they've been in the working world for decades, others who feel like students or early in their career.
No particular reason for asking, just genuinely curious what kind of professions make up this community. Feel free to keep it as vague or specific as you're comfortable with.
Drop your profession below, and if you want, one thing about it people usually don't expect.
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CEO. Disaster/healthcare management consultant. Critical care paramedic.
Well. Technically I am a CEO. My company is smallish, but we are a proper joint stock company (who I am the sole owner)m I founded it in 2020 and we consult in disaster management and healthcare management so for the "hot end" of healthcare.
I am still qualified as a critical care paramedic but only work in that field part time now.
pretty good , keep goin sir
Space shuttle door gunner. It's a surprisingly easy lateral move from my old job as a submarine screen window repairman.
Hey I’m a billionaire space cowboy. We probably know the same guys. Do you Bob, from accounting? He’s a putz.
That you, Maurice?
Former rock star, now retired, living on my private island, occasional public speaker, industry leader consultant when bored.
Just kidding. IT of course.
Damnnn , I was two seconds away from asking you how you broke into the rock star industry 🤓
“AROO!! AROO!! AROO!!”
No, not really. I’m an English teacher & childcare provider.
Used to work in IT, but preschoolers are generally easier to please.
Graham crackers and juice vs id10t errors. Lol
I have no idea what is called in English. I just work at a car park. Just above minimal wage, it pays my bills, finances my hobbies, is stable and once I'm out of the door at the end of my shift it is not my problem anymore.
Parking lot attendant, unless you drive the cars too, in which case valet parker.
I'm a cashier. Are you proud of me mom and dad?
We are. Love, mum 💐💛
Why would that be a bad job? You provide a service to the community, that is better than a lot of other, so called prestigious, jobs. You didn't make the world a worse place at the end of your day. So a lot better than many others.
For one thing, the pay is shit. For another, it's at a gas station/convenenience store (corner shop) so I indirectly work for the fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel industry sure makes the world a worse place.
OK, respect for taking responsibility, but I don't consider cashier at a gas station to be a job responsible for climate change. At a certain point we all have to participate in the system to not starve. That is by design. So again: don't beat yourself up too much about it. Vote, demonstrate, but cashier is not a job I see one should be ashamed for.
nothing wrong with that, one of the chain "bougie eco grocery stores" chronically have cashiers understaff, recently heard they cutting the budget and rotating through employee like paper. just to put you at ease, there are people that dont have jobs now and constantly complaining about finances for some reason(they refuse to take any jobs, aka cherry picking). alot of stories/posts about this on other platforms.
I used to teach, now I wait tables. I've also been a computer tech, event security, summer camp counselor, and lay minister.
I'm thinking about switching it up again. Maybe electrician?
Electrician gang rise up
Get amped!
My profession is whatever job I can get with a HS diploma. Right now it's a crane operator, I climb 1-3 stories to troubleshoot problems for a warehouse in 34f or -15f. Actually not bad, coworkers on my shift are pretty cool, pay is good, benefits not bad. Just allot to learn with the program and system they use. Still in training, wish my luck keeping this job till I get a college degree or trade.
Mood. Over the last 8 years I've been: a server, retail worker, a cashier, a barista, a cake decorator, a software designer, currently I'm a dishwasher.
Almost there same haha. Retail, cashier, order filler for warehouse, restaurant cook, more retail, brewer, even more retail, plastic molder and now cranes.
That sounds like so much to me! I've only ever been a warehouse worker at ups for 5 years straight now. Only job I've ever had. Job hopping sounds exhausting
I just want to add that dishwashing has been my best experience. I work at a gay bar and everyone is super nice and I've made a lot of friends since starting. Surprisingly it pays a living wage but there's not a ton of hours because they want to keep people off of insurance, which makes sense (they are a small business). I've also barbacked on weekends and holidays. I'm also learning to prep cook so I can work more hours. I'm trying to keep one job that can pay me more, than two jobs splitting my time and I get paid half as much. I know FedEx has a union does UPS have one too?
Fedex does not have a union, you are killing me right now. Yes, we have a union. I'm actively involved.
Ok lol thanks for informing me I was wrong. FedEx has union, UPS has shit.
I'm a crane technician, I work for myself repairing all kinds of cranes apart from towers.
Crane operation in Australia is a great profession that i have seen carry many people into retirement.
Why wouldn't you stick with it? A good crane operator can keep a job site running so smooth. The only downside is no one notices until the primary operator is out sick and someone who isn't as good is operating that day.
The only reason why is because of moving, don't like the state (USA) I'm in and want my son to have a better education. I was nervous and being hard on myself that I wasnt doing a good job, but boss man told me I was doing a good job and heard nothing but good things. Have to learn other departments for the company eventually.
Yeah i get that, im in the process of moving now because we don't want our son growing up where we are living now.
It's not a great place
i was looking at rad tech, which at least in my area makes at least equal to some grad program/degrees, without the unncessary blood, sweat, time and money of going through 4 years+ grad school. for stem which is "high" for bio /health related field(except for nursing and MDs)
I knew a guy I worked with that was doing this, he said he went to school, but maybe they just paid for his schooling/training. Said he had to go to different places for it.
Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but good to know in case something happens.
interesting did he go to Community college, because those have multi-year waitlists. 1-6+years, some people mentioned they got a degree rather than wait that long, or go to the expensive route, only 4 year universities teach this, only certain ones do. but it can be many times more than CC, like 10-20x more.
Maybe? He just said this company was working with him. Perhaps he knew someone that was helping him
IT support for a non-profit. We are a small IT dept so I do everything from installing printers to managing our network. I've been at this job for 20yrs. But worked in IT for 25ish.
I did IT support for a non-profit too. I felt they tend to glom onto the clue until you're used up and then move onto the next savior. Needless to say, I haven't done charity work in a number of years.
WOW..... A very interesting career life !!!
Environmental health officer, aka health inspector.
Most people don't know who we are, but we play a huge role in the background on education and prevention for public health issues like food safety, communicable diseases (gastro, outbreaks, pandemic, tattooing, beauty parlours, mosquitoes, rodents, flu, covid, etc.), health of the environment (soil, air, water),... We are a jack of all trades kind of profession.
What's the nastiest case involving a resaurant you've ever seen?
Oh boy.. I've got a few. There is always one that comes to mind, but I've had somewhere I just get the creeps when I walk in, and it's confirmed crawling with cockroaches: In the walls, ceiling panels, floors, under benches, under the ticket machine (RIP), but surprisingly not actually IN food... That I could see. But I've always been during the day with people getting food all the time, so it was probably too risky for the cockroaches to get the food.
The one: I walked in, and things get worse and worse. First: Bag of chicken on the floor beside the oven with boiling stock to the left. To the right, someone cutting up cooked meat. Down the back: Back door is wide open. I also get the familiar cockroach feeling.
I turn back to the left and the chicken has gone in to the stock. The person uses a skimmer to skim off the herbs, spices, fats off the top of the stock, and the strainer goes in to the bin... And back in to the stock.
I look back to the right, someone is taking out the rubbish. Ties the dirty bag, drags it out the back door. Comes back, rinses hands for 2 seconds, goes back to cutting meat. No soap.
Cool room is filthy (walls, floors, containers), smells rotten, it's too warm. I find cockroach nests inside the cool room, and outside of it.
I walk outside the back door to take a breather, and I find rats in the overflowing rubbish bins. Walk back in to the front area (small display case) and it's warm.
I shut the place for almost 3 weeks. The owner had no idea, I'm sure he got his kids to do the training I ordered him to do because there was no way he could have gotten 98% when I asked him to demonstrated the skills. They tried to move to another Council area, but we gave the EHOs a heads up.
Worst ever.
Oh yeah that all sounds super nasty 🤢🤮
Such is life of an EHO. But you do get some amazing places where you think it's an absolute dive, but the kitchen is spotless. If not... I have videos and photos that live rent free in my head forever now.
I’m a professional do-nothinger!
I have a nonsense job title which doesn’t describe what I do, so on linked in I self title as a digital accessibility specialist. Prior to getting into this field, I was a physical therapist (technically I maintain my license so I still am, but feels weird to claim when I’m not practicing)
What was your setting? Why did you leave? I'm school-based. Considering leaving - kids are fun but admin sucks and schools are getting more and more chaotic. I'd keep my license to pick up prn hours if needed.
ETA- I have a friend with CP who's an OT. I think OT was so helpful to her as a kid that she was kind of enamored with it. Now, 5-10 years into working, she's finding that the clinic is too physical for her. She'd like to get into accessibility work. How did you make the transition?
I was 90% in SNF and assisted living. I did a few contract rotations that took me to acute. I went through the medicare payment changes which really made clear how admin was just working to manipulate metrics to get paid more (and yet the rehab department was a "loss" because we were a different branch of the company, so staff never got raises, just cuts) rather than accepting recommendations from the treating team. Being in a SNF during the height of Covid (find a side story/complaint below) really finished my burn out.
I went to a coding boot camp, and then got recruited by a friend turned coworker. It's a nice, niche field if you can get into it, but a LOT of it is government work, so how important they find accessibility varies with the election cycle. That said, it's probably a good time to get in. I work under the rehabilitation act of 1973, but a recent-ish ruling based in Americans with Disabilities Act is requiring that State and local government entities with a total population of 50,000 or more also have a baseline level of digital accessibility. Spoiler, most are not ready.
Side story: Covid was announced a public emergency or whatever in March 2020. Our company offered us a "hazard bonus", but didn't specify that their small print was that there had to be diagnosed covid in the facility. They also didn't announce that they were only offering the bonus for six months. So when our building had covid sweep through in December 2020 (before vaccines were available), I was told to be providing physical therapy (close contact with heavy breathing) to people who ended up dying the next day with no vaccines and no hazard bonus. They also decided that some staff was not essential, so I totally got paid physical therapist wages to mop rooms and change linens.
interesting how long did you go from coding bootcamp to getting a job in digital accessibility?
A little over two years. However, I wasn't aiming for accessibility per se. It sort of ended up falling in my lap and being a really good match to use the skills I had collected as a physical therapist.
Is there any certification you needed, or the accessibility training was just rolled up in the bootcamp? We've been doing a lot of training at work here for it (education) and I feel like a mini expert at this point.
Need is a strong word. I was hired without any, but they had been looking for someone for a while and were a touch desperate. I’ve since earned both my JAWS certification and DHS trusted tester. I’ve been “in progress” for the IAAP core competencies for years.
That said I walked in with a (clinical) doctorate degree, years of transferable experience, and a personal reference.
Education and eLearning is a great way in.
Super interesting! Do you work for a government entity? Would that be the place to start looking at opportunities?
Schools have gone the same way. Admin only cares about how much we can bill Medicaid - none of the $ trickles down to us and there's little/no concern for kids who are struggling.
I work for a company that has a government contract (actually they have multiple government contracts, only a few of them in accessibility), but I work super closely with the team that works directly for the government.
Curious, with ur PT background, how do you handle stress or old thoughts that resurface? Trying to figure out how I can work on that for myself....
I've had a cumulative 6-ish years of weekly therapy (over three bouts, with 5 different therapists)
Geographer, I make maps
Hey same! Kinda. What kind of maps do you do?
Basically land use. You?
Utilities. Kinda similar, but I wish I was on your side of the coin :)
Cool!
This sounds interesting. What kind of maps? How long have you been doing this? How have things changed over the course of your career?
I am a caregiver for high functioning adults with special needs. The pay isn't very good and there's no benefits. I love my clients, they are hilarious and they like to tell me how awesome I am. I don't let it get to my head because that's one of the behaviors they do to get what they want or need.
Welcome to the IT help desk, im here because you broke something.
And I cosplay as a sysadmin at home for fun. Would like to make the jump professionally, but being able to turn work off at home and not be on-call is too important.
I used to be a scientist, lived the startup (hardware) dream, now thinking about next moves - world needs housing, right? Maybe reskill to civil engineering?
Surprising thing: hardware startups face so much upfront capital cost that they're almost impossible these days, also, I'm starting to wonder if we maybe have enough Science/Tech and that investment could be better directed to short term material needs of people and the planet
Depends on what type of science. I'm in Structural Biology, and I think medicine is so primitive that it's a bit horrifying. Also we have all this protein design stuff and people just aren't interested in using it to innovate.
I've been thinking of doing a one-man start up because the biotech job-market is non-existent, the NIH isn't funding much, and I can't seem to find a position. Any tips?
I'm currently an engineer at a hardware tech startup. It is crazy how much upfront capital is needed, even just to build non-form factor test devices.
I make knives. I write about knives.
What? Those are totally some of my professions.
I'm in education. It's pretty alright. The kids aren't alright, though.
I restarted my career during Covid after my consulting business dried up. 5 years in, I'm a sysadmin at a state university. But I am working on an escape plan from IT. I also chair a very active queer non-profit and sit on a lot of coalitions so time to myself is often at a premium. That's not even mentioning my toddler son...
NOC technician. I monitor the internet infrastructure for a school district, remotely troubleshoot networking equipment, dispatch field resources, set up maintenance projects, coordinate with vendors, that sorta thing.
Scheduling and event organizing at a small college.
I'm working in IT as a software developer 👾 Not sure if it's sustainable until retirement though, maybe I'll try something new at some point... I always dreamed of becoming a train driver
I used to work in IT, got fed up with that and switched to trades (joiner, tiler, and such), started doing property renovations, then covid & lockdown stopped that.
Then my parents got ill and I pretty much have to take care of them.
IT is that bad huh?, during covid i had female coworker in another job said she left it because they were offering severance during the beginning of covid, she found it too stressful to stay anyways.
Depends on the job, company and person.
For some it's stressfull, for some it's challenging but managable and some just need it.
I personally think I can handle it but the ups and downs of stress sometimes seem to get me.
seems alot of people leaving it are of that group.although she does have some pre(almost conditions) that is worsened by the stress.
Mechanical Engineer. 14 years in automotive interiors. I design tooling for instrument panel toppers, door uppers, arm rests, etc.
Primarily, the type of tooling I specialize in is known as edge wrapping or edge folding. Basically, you have the plastic "substrate" and the leather or vinyl "skin" that is either vacuum formed or press laminated to it. Extra material is left around the edges, and that is heated, wrapped, and glued around the back of the part with a number of metal fingers. I do the wrapping tooling, as well as the lamination tooling.
The most complicated tool I ever designed was for a large, flat component behind the back seat of a car, by the rear window. Let me walk you through the sequence for it.
So far, I would say it is the pinnacle of my career. But car parts are getting more complicated all the time. My design focuses lately have been focused on simplicity over that level of complexity. Where can we use a guided cylinder where we used to use linear rails? Can this detail be made in multiple pieces to reduce waste material? What components can be 3D printed? It's great fun, really. I do love my job.
Automate stuff, fix stuff that does not automate.
Nice try, FBI
Always thinking about those Psy-Ops/OSINT ppdcasts by darknet diaries talking about getting a foothold in a target.
Ahh, a fellow Darknet Diaries enjoyer.
I meant it as a joke but one should be vigilant when handing out/ their personal information.
Translator and proofreader. I've translated everything from HSE manuals to emails used in a divorce case.
Were the divorce case emails scandalous/spicy?
The husband thought so, I thought they were surprisingly tame. I wonder what the judge thought.
Programmer and systems admin
Used to be cop.
Went into a completely unrelated line of work purely because it was remote, promoted from there.
Edit for the curious who want to know why I'm not a cop any more: https://lemmy.world/post/43267939
We did it, guys! We finally found the good cop!
Statistically speaking it's likely that I was somewhere close to a 5/10. If you consider that "good" so be it, but I reject the notion that just because a(n ex-)cop goes on Lemmy they must be or have been good.
I've tried to address the issue across many spaces, but there's never anywhere near a consensus on what makes a cop a Good Cop, so I don't think I or anyone else will be able to truthfully answer that question about me (or any other cop) in a way that suits most/all people.
My joke was that there are no good cops, because even the “good” ones still uphold the blue wall of silence and passively enforce systematic oppression. The entire system is designed so that cops who refuse to fall in line are quickly weeded out. Even if the “good” cops don’t directly oppress people and abuse their authority, they keep quiet about their coworkers who do. There is no “good cop changing the system from within” because the system is designed from the ground up to expel anyone who tries. So the only way to be a good cop is to stop being one.
I don't strongly disagree with that notion, but I strongly believe that spreading the idea leads to making cops worse as a whole.
Say your message reached the eyes/ears of every single (prospective) cop, whether they (think they) (will) contribute to that problem or not.
The ones that want to contribute to that don't care what you have to say about it; they might even get a kick out of it.
The ones that don't want to will either be motivated towards mental gymnastics into ignoring criticism of law enforcement ("they obviously have no idea what they're talking about" and other similar cop-outs) or look for a way out of that line of work. In other words, making people think "it doesn't matter what I do, I will still be considered evil," will push a lot of otherwise good people to either ignore criticism, deviate to the worse, or get out entirely. The former two are basically the logic behind Labeling Theory. Do you know who invites them with open arms? Bad Cops.
So by subtracting (potential) Good Cops and not affecting (or bolstering) Bad Cops, you make the ratio worse.
Finally someone else who shares this opinion!
One of the biggest deflating sentiments that ruins the ACAB meme is the one-two question:
"Do you think you are a good person?"+"Do you want to be a cop?"
If they're answering truthfully, most ACABers would answer: "Yes."+"Of course I don't."
The reasoning behind the latter varies, in my experience with them, from "Because there are too many bad cops (therefore I am afraid for my personal safety)." to "Because I qualify for better jobs."
The former is, frankly, an argument from a place of cowardice. Imagine a world where nobody put out fires because fires are dangerous. Sure, it's totally rational for one person to avoid danger, but if everyone avoids danger we are all screwed. Further, though no group is a monolith, you also see "Cops always protect their own no matter what," come from ACABers, at which point wouldn't that person trying to be good be one of those cops that is above any adverse action?
The latter is an argument for incentivizing good people to join law enforcement, most directly with better pay, and indirectly with not shitting on every cop just because one/some/most/etc. of them are shit.
I only skimmed that to get the gist, but I do really appreciate you sharing that, and I commend you for choosing option 3. sorry that happened to you
No worries. Where I posted it on Reddit, I had it where the more granular detailed sections were blacked out spoiler-style so people could read less of it if they wanted to, but I don't think Lemmy supports that function (yet).
Warehouse worker. I mainly do labeling and loading/unloading etc but I do any other task as needed. I am also full-time uni student in CS.
Pediatric physical therapy.
Interesting, geriatric and neuro here!
If you ever need a very interesting brain to scan, ping me. I'd especially love if someday autism is proven by scan (we just got closer as I read) and not by human guesstimates.
I've seen some very wild scans in my time, especially a hydrocephalus mri. Autism isn't an area in familiar with (except I work with people with functional neurological disorder that seem to have a higher rate of autism). I imagine however over time that the functional MRI might be able to identify autism to some extent
Fun! I love the functional piece of neuro. School-based is similar- fire drills, lunch lines, field trips, ...
Curious, how do you handle it when a child's dealing with trauma or family issues alongside their physical condition? Do you get trained for that side too, or bring in other specialists> Pediatric physical therapy//.
I generally work with the kids who are more physically (and usually cognitively) disabled - the kids that people don't know exist. Most of these kids get school OT, PT, Speech, vision, and also nursing care for meds, feeding tubes, trachs, breathing treatments, etc. We very much work as a team and we work pretty closely with the families.We reach out to school counselors if a kid or family seems to be struggling.
Regarding abuse and neglect, we are mandated reporters. Luckily, in my 20 years in this job, I've only had one incident where i considered calling child protective services and that was on a teacher who i felt was putting a child in a physically dangerous situation. I've had to participate in a couple of interviews after others called for neglect/extremely poor hygiene (bugs) 🤮.
I make things look nice by covering up blemishes with an explosion or skin from a foot or a piece of furniture. I'm a compositor.
Professional wanker.
Oi, you got an active wanking license there mate?
Don't need a license if you only use your own gear.
I’ve been a dispensing optician, IT support and consultant, project manager, international NGO director, now I work as regional lead for a men’s charity and have qualified as a psychotherapist. So that’s happening now.
Railway signal maintainer.
I take care of crossing warning devices, switch machines, signals, track circuits, and wayside hazard detectors.
That’s so cool. Cool job
Thanks.
City bus driver. It's not the most exciting job I've ever had, but it's a union shop(which really kicks ass!!!), has steady hours, pension, vacation/sick days, and healthcare.
It can be infuriating dealing with people who definitely do not have their shit in a pile. But it also feels really good being there for the community. I'll probably stick with it for a bit.
I'm a software engineer and it feels gross to say for some reason
I'm just a poser though, because I have no thigh-highs
Software dev and in privat game dev/modder
Software developer
I thought there'd be more of us...
you want more devs go to devrant
it's a nice little community similar to lemmy.
Blame AI and terrible job postings. Do you know how many software dev jobs I've been rejected by? I'm applying out of college and literally no one has even faked interest. Sadly its been a few years and I've had to adapt or sink. As someone who can't, please fix AI code slop.
you need more experience. how do you get that experience? well, you get a job and earn that experience. how do you get a job? with experience!
I figure when I get fired I'm just going to sell my home with a 2000% markup from my purchased price and go buy a cabin in the woods to live off grid.
I was in tech, both IT and business enablement roles. I got replaced by AI so now I'm a professional curmudgeon.
I used to whip men for a living. Now I just herd them, and some engineering-related stuff happens as a result :-)
hey there is a french guy on youtube that makes a living of whipping and performing various acts, in a medieval type setting.
His technique is probably better than mine ... TBH I never used a proper whip on a person, just riding crops and sometimes a cane. But when you've been in that line of work, everyone just assumes it's whips so I go with that
Did you ever fist anybody in addition to the whipping?
Not the men, no - probably most guys into receiving butt stuff in a big way would prefer a man.
There's been a couple of women over the yearswho liked it, but it didn't do anything for me as the provider over and above just using my fingers or a dildo
Hmm that's interesting. I'm a straight male and very much like being on the receiving end of butt stuff from women so it seems I'm in a small minority. Other dudes are missing out!
It may well be because of societal differences - I quit that line of work nearly 20 years ago, it was in the UK, and most of my clients were older than me, so there was a very strong line of homophobia among them ... more than one of them struggled with their urge to stick it in my butt, in case that made them somehow a little bit gayer :-/
People are weird, and repressed people even moreso!
I used to work for a city school during the summer to get school books ready for the year/ recycle old ones, retail, bike mechanic, 3rd party labor builder for various companies, mostly bikes and furniture, and most recently at a factory cutting aluminum.
Nowadays I mostly look for jobs.
Lawyer and engineer. I manage the IP and help spin out start ups for a large robotics research institution.
Any tips for someone considering a one-man start up? Is there a snowball's chance in heck that I can protect software IP or do I just have to accept I'm gonna get robbed blind / copied and be prepared to move on? Is it better to open source the software and profit by running it for them? Maybe run it for others until someone figures out how to make a copycat then open source mine to spite them once it becomes unprofitable?
Idk... I can't seem to find a job, but I don't truly know how to entrepreneur.
It really depends on the software and all of the surrounding factors. If you want to send me a direct message with a quick description of the software and your circumstances I'm happy to give you my thoughts. There aren't really "right" answers in this field, just different ways to achieve different goals.
To give you a few quick thoughts. Yes, software can be protectable by copyright or patent, but each I'll have different strengths and weaknesses. Open sourcing is pretty misunderstood generally. That said, it can definitely be the foundation for a successful business under the right circumstances. As for a one man start up, good luck. It sounds almost impossible to be honest. I don't think I truly know of any successful one man startups, but it depends on what success looks like to you.
As I said above, message me with more info and I'll do my best to provide some actually helpful tips.
Oh I can just tell you here. I don't have to go into detail on how I solved all the fundamental problems people think are unsolvable. Basically I'm really good a protein crystallography, so I'm making a script that can generate crystallization chaperones - i.e. things that make your protein crystallize. The software is pretty hard to code. From a publication perspective I don't have any competition because there aren't many people who are experts in protein crystallography and also good at both protein design and programming -- and then you add my many tricks to make it all work. The issue is just that after the first few structures are published people will figure out half my clever tricks to solve the problems. Then it's just a matter of time before someone else replicates it... unless it's slightly harder than I expect and it takes an additional trick then it's extremely unlikely anyone will ever get it.
Success is building up a personal research endowment without starving. I'm probably going to drain my current funds buying a van so that I'm not on the street if I can't find a job, but if I can make a little bit of money to not starve I can probably get the rest of the way in due time. Biotech startups can be pretty scrappy until we get to the implementation phases, but then I have no idea what happens.... Maybe just patent and license? Maybe I do need lawyers or collaborate with a university for their lawyers since I'll never be able to afford it. Idk.
If my project works exceptionally well I suppose it won't matter as I'll suddenly find it very easy to get a job in between collecting fancy prizes, but that's a bit optimistic.
Freelance artist. Make 2D and 3D digital art.
Commissions are mostly furry. Because of course. But I'm working on a sci-fi universe, and I practice a lot of 3D modelling with Bionicles.
nicee bro , could u show some of them ??
Sure thing. I'll be keeping it SFW.
2D:
3D:
thanks for sharing this with me , its amazing keep it up bro , do u have some favourite 2d or 3d models like some superheroes or something like that ...
You mean art or artists that inspire me? Not Sure if you'll know them, but what has inspired me the most (besides Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and Bionicle) are sci-fi and fantasy Franco-Belgian graphic novels.
Lanfuest of Troy (and all its sequels), Sillage, Travis, The Golden City.
Legal analyst
Mechanical engineer working on the operations side of a power plant.
Maintenance engineer for a major window manufacturer.
Previously I worked in Healthcare in various different roles.
I heard you like "Windows" (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Bet you hadnt heard that one before.
Electrical engineer. I primarily do work on water treatment plants, but because my company has few electrical engineers, I work on a variety of jobs
Youth worker
I thought child labor was illegal in most countries 🤔
Electrical engineer, I'm more on the prototype side of circuit board design
I'm a network engineer for a Swiss ISP that serves only a specific niche of institutional customers, not home users.
I think there are still many who don't know this: All important internet links go over fiber optic cables with lasers and photo diodes at the ends, and in the backbone everything under 100 Gigabits per second is slow.
The speeds you are used to as a consumer are mostly limited by the last mile to your house, be it wireless, DSL on telephone wires, or DOCSIS on coax cable. Everywhere else 10 Gigabits per second is like the minimum. Our current generation backbone routers can't even do 1 Gigabits per second interfaces anymore.
I'd love to understand/explore the networking of telecoms..
Those big deployments always seem a bit magical vs my weird home-lab/stack and what our SMB-MSP outputs.
I'm herding electrons. AKA I design chips for isosychronous low-latency networks.
Junior researcher in food microbiology, with a background in general food technology.
Figuring out cheaper ways to enrich foods using microbial producers.
Systems Engineer/Programmer. Been doing it for ~26 years.
I'm a credit card number distributor.
In the middle running away from tech (10+ years) to join the circus. That's not hyperbole
interesting , good luck buddy ...
No profession. Didn't choose any !!
Full stack developer. Our stack is soggy cheese.
I am a master of the custodial arts.
Product designer in observability field
Don't want to give specific details about me personally, so I'll be vague. But just wanted to represent that I'm not tech/IT focused on my work.
It still is a STEM job with 2 postgraduate degree+diploma level qualifications.
Or you could, like, not help our future doxxers find us and fuck up our shit 🙄
ain't no way anyone's doxxing that space shuttle door gunner
I don't know, there can't be to many ex submarine window repairers who are now in that roll
Bro. He can shoot you. From SPACE.
Bah. I'm in IT; and one can tell that from my comment history. Run even a dumb LLM over my comment history and you'll probably have me identified +/- 1 person -- job history, location history, current employer. I think there's more in my comments than even in the lengthy form I had for my last background check.
But if get it if you've been careful, and that's completely your choice.
Opened a consulting business a couple years ago, a solo thing. Before that 15 years in energy tech product.
I was self-employed in media for around 10years. Mostly Album covers, posters and some clothing. Mostly in reggae. Than, with 37y, I did an "apprenticeship" for 3 years and now I'm a webdev. Mostly typo3 and a bit wordpress.
I do the 3Dies
Lawyer, specifically a civil litigator.
Lumberjack in Antarctica, it's cold and pointless but nobody's got to do it
I'm a parish priest in the Episcopal Church.
Lots of people assume priests only work on Sundays. They also assume that we don't have much of a life outside of the priesthood. I get that sometimes when I'm getting dressed after surfing ("you guys can surf?"). I also have a wife and four kids, which also surprises people (my wife and I sometimes meet up for lunch dates and I always get amused when I see someone who thinks they've happened upon some scandal in the making).
i think people associated priests with SA/pedophelia with Catholic church, its probably different for other denominations.
Software Engineer
Marketing. Sorry about all the emails and texts.
On this account, I’m a live audio technician. I run sound for events like concerts, musicals, dance shows, etc…
I also do a little bit of networking design, installation, and management on the side. Mostly because lots of devices these days are using audio-over-IP and video-over-IP systems like Dante. Nothing super fancy, but I can at least configure VLANs on a managed switch, and have gone through the SysAdmin “locked myself out of the firewall” rite of passage.
Very similar but on the corporate AV side. Design, program, and manage conference systems. Everything from small 4 person huddle spaces up to auditoriums and divisible multi purpose rooms.
Been doing it since everything was analog, now I'm basically a network engineer.
Going over the stats today we manage over 600 endpoints world wide, not bad for a three man team.
I studied bioinformatics, got into IT, got pushed into sales, got out cause I hated that. Now I'm a barkeeper. Not yet sure what I'll do next. Maybe IT again, if I find a company that sucks less.
Also the sysadmin for a small non-profit, which is a lot more fun than any corporate job I had.
Was a wage slave all my life until I retired. The best I could do in life is sell my time for money. I didn't care who I sold it to.
I’ve been in the animation industry for 15yrs. Mostly in the commercial space, so nothing for movies.
911 call-taker
dispatcher?
Nah, he just says "wow that's crazy...." If you want help you gotta call the new number
Yep, the new number of course being 0118999881999119725...3
Our center is big and we handle a lot of volume so dispatchers are separate.
Nice try, FBI.
I'm a professional pedant, but it's only seasonal part time work.
I work in ecommerce/cpg supply chain as an supply/demand planner, I find it enjoyable. If any of you guys are hiring let me know lol.
Embedded engineer writing firmware and what such
automated machine design. mostly automotive crap.
sure does pay the bills what with the always available overtime, but it also has a shit effect on hobbies because (1) there's only so many hours a week you can spend using a kb/m and at a desk, and more work cuts into gaming, (2) there's only so many hours you can spend staring at a screen, so more work cuts into gaming or other media, and (3) when your day job is designing machines and solving problems, more of that cuts into playing Minecraft or Factorio or something because hey that's like the exact same type of thinking.
there's a reason so many engineers are into climbing, cycling, camping, woodworking etc
I quit work at 35 and am now 61. Preferred to do my own thing, which in retrospect means I'm way to busy
I'm a CNC laser operator. Basically I cut metal with lasers.
Pseudo-pilot/simulator operator for the Norwegian air navigation safety provider, Avinor. It's a quiet life, but the hours are humane and it doesn't require a medical certificate (which I lost after having a li'l stroke some 15 months ago).
I was a special education teacher in an inner city school district for 11 years. I started in high school my first year and then went to elementary the last 10. It was to weird being 22 teaching 17 year olds.
Anyways, did 3-4 for a couple years, then 5-6 a couple years, finished in k-1. I was diagnosed with kidney failure a few years ago and retired early because I'm on dialysis. I invested very well so I'm good financially, but I miss working with kids, not so much getting fucked over by the school district, but that's a wother thing.
i had a formr coworker that refused to work for district a while back, because the pay was so low, and its a district that is very sketchy. i dont blame her, she was doing the job im doing and part time at private school, which is equal or worst than public school. she went into tech, but i dont know if has programming/coding skills, right before AI was the craze.
sw engineer since abt 1997 and firefighter since abt 2005.
TCOB, takin' care of business.
Sysadmin or something like L2 helpdesk.
Depends on the day.
Telephony engineer
Sounds UK-ish
Not really.
Just because of the "(telephon)-phy". The suffix read like something a UK person might say.
I know, it's especially weird since it's pronounced te-LEH-fun-ee which tends to trip people up when telling someone in person.
Would have pronounced it like regular telephone
Fun with words (sparkle)
Former machine learning researcher. Worked on image search, then language modeling for general search. But then VC started throwing money at it and the landscape just kinda' changed. The research was still great in academia, but a bunch of dipshits took a useful technology and decided to use it as a way to funnel money from everyone into their own coffers.
Now I build stuff to monitor power lines and prevent wildfires.
One thing people don't usually expect: machine learning isn't magic. The computer doesn't just "do the work for you". There's a lot of planning, theory, and experimentation around seeing if and why something works.
I had no idea the Viet Cong was still active in 2026.
After the Kháng chiến chống Mỹ, I can't say I blame them.
I don't know what that is, but it looks like Vietnamese script so I'm inclined to agree that's probably relevant.
I was just playing off your joke. It's the term for the Vietnam War in Vietnamese. "Resistance War Against America."
Ah okay. Barely related but I read recently that Vietnam is one of the countries that thinks highest about the US. Super strange, considering.
i assume AI, since its related.
RF Engineer.
Voip engineer / telecom
Stay at home dad 😊
Cybersecurity (AppSec), was a software engineer for many years before that.
One day there was an incident and I tended to the recovery…
IT. I've drifted from telecommunications to cinema.
IT, did a lot of work in a high traffic (big scale & high redundancy) environments.
Im 'always' right of course but I don't give fucks enough to discuss with everyone.
Since I've died once I'm clearly now technically undead.