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.

    • criticon@lemmy.ca
      172·
      5 个月前

      I disagree, I’m an engineer and I prefer it over not engineering positions. My only ragret is not keeping up with coding since it was my favorite subject in college

      • Karmmah@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 个月前

        Do you feel like you could use coding in your daily business or is it just an interest you would like to pursue?

        • Zonetrooper@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 个月前

          Not that guy, but also a (not-software) engineer. Coding is really great for a few things:

          • Software stuff is in really vogue right now. Like there’s demand for all engineering disciplines in my area, but software guys are the hot position, with pay to match.
          • Even if you’re not software, knowing a little is helpful for other stuff - e.g., whipping up some quick and dirty test interfaces, or interacting with older systems with non
          • It also really, really helps for little things at home.

          Unfortunately I cannot actually write code to save my life, but it’d be real useful if I could!

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 个月前

        Maybe it’s my job, but I feel like I haven’t had a job in the last decade that I really enjoyed. I might just be getting older and jaded.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      8·
      5 个月前

      That’s why I went backwards from SE back to IT. I enjoy working with people directly and helping them. It’s also a hell of a lot easier in terms of hours and crunches (we have no crunches).

      Basically, I had to decide whether I wanted the money and “glamour” of working on a well-known hot project or to be generally happy with my life. I’m a lot happier now.

    • Bilbo_Haggins@lemm.ee
      3·
      5 个月前

      I think it depends on your field of engineering and how much you enjoy the work. I find environmental engineering to be satisfying and a very dependable/lucrative income compared to many other non-engineering fields I might have been interested in.

      Add to that most other fields that pay similarly or higher (doctor, lawyer, etc) require more/costlier schooling and it’s a pretty sweet deal to be able to go into the job market with only a bachelor’s or masters and making a decent wage right off the bat.

      Of course the same enshittification/race to the bottom for prices affects us too but I don’t know if there’s any career that escapes that entirely.

      I would also think maybe certain engineering fields are more stable than others. Mine is particularly recession-proof since we’re driven by regulation (and bipartisan-supported regulation at that), not the economy. Massive layoffs are not that common in many of the other more “physical” engineering fields like structural, electrical, or mechanical either and even if you are laid off there is usually another company hiring. The skills are pretty portable as well so if you want to change careers you have a pretty good chance at being successful.

      Is it a field of rainbows and butterflies? No, but it’s a hell of a lot better than plenty of other jobs out there and it pays the bills.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    5 个月前

    When people work with hazardous materials, they hire me to make sure they do it safely or legally. I mostly work in waste handling, soil remediations and laboratories.

    It’s pretty fun and interesting, but it’s been very bad for my enjoyment of homegrown food, swimming outdoors or going downwind of any industrial sites.

  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
    29·
    5 个月前

    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.

  • Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world
    23·
    5 个月前

    I do cosplay erotica for a living. I make awesome costumes, I take them off, and just post to Patreon. I suppose it’s kindof retail, as I’m giving the photos to people, as a reward for subscribing, but I set my own schedule and choose what goes out. The freedom is incredible

    • laranis@lemmy.zip
      10·
      5 个月前

      First, good on you. As a corpo wage slave who would not be good at either dressing up or removing said dressing, color me envious.

      Second, any particular fandom pay the bills better than others?

      Now that I’m asking I realize I probably don’t actually want to know.

      • Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 个月前

        I specialize in powerful/domme energy characters, because unless you look like a little girl, you don’t make money off the sweet/girl next door characters.

        My most popular are Lady Dimitrescu (Resident Evil), Cammy (StreetFighter), Mad Moxxi (Borderlands), so video games, win!

        Oh, and Velma… my most subscribers ever were for that set, but I shot with a porn star and it was my first girl on girl set. 😅

      • kitnaht@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 个月前

        PETG just is a pain in the ass sometimes. Really sensitive to moisture, and it loves to stick to hot metal. So it has a tendency to overextrude because of the steam, and bunch up on the nozzle, causing all sorts of havok.

        The key to printing it is just keeping it dry – the latest batches I’ve held feel like they’re way softer than I remember, so I suspect mfgs are putting more glycol in it than before.

        Also, do a sanity check and go back and print PLA from time to time. Sometimes you won’t realize something else is wrong and you’ll blame it on the filament, but something like the idler arm on the extruder is broken, etc.

        You can print it on Textured PEI, or Glass - but I suggest putting a little glue stick down to act as a release agent on the PEI - PETG and PEI bond together too well in some instances (ESPECIALLY on smooth PEI)

  • essell@lemmy.world
    19·
    5 个月前

    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.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      2·
      5 个月前

      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.

      • essell@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 个月前

        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.

        • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
          2·
          5 个月前

          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!

          • essell@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 个月前

            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 😁

            • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
              2·
              5 个月前

              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!

  • TheBigNil@lemmy.world
    18·
    5 个月前

    Tower climbing grease monkey. Aka wind turbine technician.

    Part plumber, part electrician, part IT, part jiffy lube, all crazy!

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    18·
    5 个月前

    I used to work at a place that made envelopes and printed forms.

    Fascinating seeing 12 foot tall stacks of rolls of paper.