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.
I work in IT and I don’t like following rules
But do you use Linux?
I’m insulted that you would even ask me that. We are no longer internet friends.
Clearly not an arch user
You shall lie soulless in the wake of Debian’s righteous slaughter
I run a business repairing consumer-grade 3D printers.
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.
Electronics RF Engineer, working with legal compliance. Loads of calculations, measurements, and paperwork. Occasionally, I’ll get to test something with cool expensive equipment.
Clinical research, one little dent in our knowledge of medicine at a time.
Nice try feds
I put $1000 in bitcoin in 2012
Then i wake up from my dream and calibrate temperature sensors on medical refrigerators
OP clearly just wanted an excuse to show off their vast collection of response images…
Farmer!
Licensed US Customs Broker, I help my clients navigate getting their goods imported through US Customs.
Found the drug smuggler with connections to cartels.
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.
So your composition is HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and Swede?
I wonder if it’s the vegetable type or the viking type
Tower climbing grease monkey. Aka wind turbine technician.
Part plumber, part electrician, part IT, part jiffy lube, all crazy!
Hey green team represent, solar water pig here. I boat out to floating solar arrays and fix them, also build them but recently been fixing them.
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.I’ve never heard of this job, but with a search or two, it sounds kind of like he rappels to points on tall structures to check for structural issues and such using X-rays.
Yep, that’s close enough. Although we mostly use a gamma radiation source as x-rays are electronically generated, we aren’t near a plug and the equipment is often cumbersome.
There are portable x-ray generators that run off a 20v dewalt battery. But their effective penetrative power means it’s only viable for very thin walled pipes.
I’m a real engineer.
Thank you!
I consider “software engineers” to be as much engineers as sandwich artists are artists.
Really, man? How much do you know about software engineers? Or is this a joke that’s whooshing over my head.
Software engineers don’t really – well, in the US anyway, might differ elsewhere – have a formal accreditation process, which I understand is common in other areas of engineering and is a bit of a point of friction with people in some other fields. Like, you don’t get to just roll up and say “I’m a civil engineer and I’m building a bridge now” the way you can a software engineer writing a software package.
I don’t especially think that such a process would be incredibly practical, but…shrugs
I can’t speak for other engineering trades or even other software degrees from other universities but I know my degree was ABET accredited (US) for what it’s worth. A massive chunk of our education was instilling the engineer’s mindset in terms of architecture, design, test-driven, development QA/QC, and coordination and integration with other specialties in the system. I really do wish there was a protection over the title, for I agree some may call themselves software engineers but were never actually trained in the engineering design process.
Engineer (p.s. don’t become an engineer, it’s not as great as they sold it to us)
Are you a software engineer or a real engineer?
Well, that seems like an insulting question. Not that it matters, but I’m an aerospace engineer.
