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.
How many years did you prepare the image collection before asking this question, OP?
I work in IT, by the way. (Don’t use Arch though, Tumbleweed crew represent!)
I’m an endlessly adjuncting philosophy professor. Going back to law school in the fall at age 38.
that’s pretty rad. i have a friend who teaches in chicago, the stuff he tells me he has to go through just to secure his place in the field is just ridiculous.
all the emphasis on new publications, new ideas, new this and that – what if we already got the important ideas down years ago and now the work of philosophy is in putting it to practice? why demand that scholars demonstrate their capacity for new ideas instead of demonstrating a capacity for outstanding pedagogy of existing ones? it drives me nuts… we say all of modern philosophy is a series of footnotes to plato and yet expect our professors to focus on advancing the field rather than focusing on principles of quality education and mentoring
gah this is why i left academia to do therapy
You got this! I went back to school in my mid-30s, and now 2 years after graduating, my life is immensely better. :)
Of course, I went from no degree to an associates, so a bit different in terms of degrees, but it definitely helped.
It’s the correct move. I know a few Phd pro Ph who went this route in their 30s.
Instead of just listening to U1 students with the same bad takes/logic, they now help people with actual tangible problems in the real world.
They also went from “maybe I can afford name brand beans” to “maybe I shouldn’t eat out every day this week”.
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.
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.
Which partif the grid?
The boring part. Making sure that there are holes in the walls for sockets, enough capacity in the cable trays. Planning the routing, but I didn’t have access to algorithm of the software.
Collecting the ever changing inputs from people who want devices with cables in rooms and spaces. :)
I’m a rope access industrial radiographer.
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”?
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.
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’m a Stonemason, and I work in conservation.
Nice! I’m a trim carpenter and I work in historic preservation. I’m a project manager now but I worked my way up from laborer.
Nice!
Does consulting for energy utilities helping them improve their mapping systems (GIS) count as IT? I do manage cloud infrastructure but also assist with all the various pieces and parts that go into digital maps and integrations.
Yeah i would call anything actually working in GIS beyond reading what’s there or adding dots or lines to it an IT job.
Teach at a university
Teaches IT
I did think that after I commented. Mais non, teaching English Linguistics in France.
Snack food manufacturing, running machines that put snacks into bags and then those bags into boxes.
No fork lift access unfortunately!
I used to work at a place that made envelopes and printed forms.
Fascinating seeing 12 foot tall stacks of rolls of paper.
Used to work at a newspaper, can confirm. Giant rolls of paper are pretty cool.
Me too, right when the digital age was taking over. I was young so they had me help design display ads in illustrator. We’d print out the ads with the articles on a laser printer. Cut them and arrange on a page that was then photographed. It was the future back then lol.
Maintenance, transitioning into automation tech.
Robots?
Essentially.
PLC, along with motion control.
PLC stuff
Exactly…
Trusts and estates for high net worth clients.
Did anyone else notice that every single one of those business cards had “acquisitions” spelled incorrectly?
And it doesn’t have a watermark, or most of the other stuff described. Bateman and everyone else at that table are a bunch of idiots who have no clue what they are talking about.
Manufacturing
BDE
UPS delivery
Not all heroes wear capes! Unless your the type to launch and kick packages.
