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.
Public transport, manufacturing and service/maintenance.
I put $1000 in bitcoin in 2012
Then i wake up from my dream and calibrate temperature sensors on medical refrigerators
I’m a truck driver, well nowadays more in the office than behind the wheel but I do still pull loads here and there.
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.
Nice try feds
I work in IT and I don’t like following rules
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.
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.
Very cool! Wish there were more of us on here. r/therapists is still one of the main reasons I use Reddit. Well, uh, I guess you and I could talk? But at that point, with you as a super-super and me as a first-year post-grad, it would just sound like shoddy anonymous online supervision!
I’m up for that!
I doubt I could get to know you the way a supervisor would, doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be worthwhile for both of us.
Talking with colleagues is always a joy. I’m leaving today for a long weekend, hanging out with a dozen counsellors for a person centred encounter group.
Hopefully very restful being in an environment saturated in the core conditions 😁
I love that idea too! We just gotta create a space for it, I guess. Boy do I have things to say… my facility’s CEO took his life this weekend and it’s been a mad scramble. Only in In-patient!
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 hydraulic fitter. I repair and maintain hydraulic systems, primarily on earthmoving equipment.
That’s awesome! My old man now retired is pipe/steam-fitter and welder; he always loved hydraulics though. Designed and built his own little hydraulic setup for his New Holland back in the day.
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 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.
I’m a software developer. I work in automotive and do a bit of everything from embedded programming to cloud based software.
