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.
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.
Stay at home dad 😊
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 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.
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.
Cybersecurity (AppSec), was a software engineer for many years before that.
One day there was an incident and I tended to the recovery…
Junior researcher in food microbiology, with a background in general food technology.
Figuring out cheaper ways to enrich foods using microbial producers.
Nice try, FBI.
I’m a professional pedant, but it’s only seasonal part time work.
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).
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
I am a master of the custodial arts.
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
I’ve been in the animation industry for 15yrs. Mostly in the commercial space, so nothing for movies.
