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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Engineering at national lab

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I'm an endlessly adjuncting philosophy professor. Going back to law school in the fall at age 38.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I am an accountant and prepare financial reports.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Engineering.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I helped design large-ish electrical grids. 30-100k cables

Without the actual calculation bits, unfortunately.

Not very interesting. Bad software. Management didn't really care about the problem. I was there so the problem was "managed" from their point of view.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I teach kids how to do physics, and how to write about doing physics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’ve heard it said physics is a critical part of education because it teaches reasoning based on simple rules that aren’t up for debate.

I never considered how physics writing could serve the same role in terms of scientific precision in writing.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Telecoms project engineer.

I supervise and co-ordinate the roll out of FTTH networks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I work at a shipyard servicing and rebuilding engines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm an industrial alpinist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I’m an engineer in a manufacturing environment

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Hell fricken yeah

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm an attorney for a local government.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Quality control chemist testing pharmaceuticals. Most of what we do is for clinical trial use and research purposes. It's been a good job.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Oh, a bullshitter.

Did you bullshit last week?

Did you try to bullshit last week?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Note to self, don't fight this one...

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