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I give people hearing damage.
(I run audio for live events.)

I was an electrician for 15 years in the canadian military and for the last 3 years an instructor. I got really tired of using my whole body all the time and working outside all year round. I also got really tired of the military lifestyle and how bad the leadership got.

Quit my old job 2 years ago and took up programming. Now im about to graduate from college(canada) with a 4.0gpa and hopefully have a job with i right away.

Dropship Door Nerf Gunner

Processionally NEAT

professional neet

Jerk.

(me, not OP)

Doing my BSC in Informatics atm but I am already working as a student intern network engineer for the state railway working on the internal train network and the train-to-land connection but also on stuff like the announcements and dashboards. Wherever I am needed.

sysadmin of sorts. My job description is different day by day.

I'm a datacenter administrator and professional photographer as side hustle. I love my work so much that it barely even feels like work

I'm a blacksmith

Electronics Technician and cryostat hall manager. I'm currently assisting in the moving of about 30 cryostats from various places in our current lab into the cryostat hall of our new building.

Electronics Technician and self taught programmer. My career has been building equipment to test locomotive traction motors and alternators. Lots SQL and PLC programming, electrical drawings, web programming for reports.

Back-office college financial aid at a larger state college. Financial aid mostly disburses by batch process, so my job is to audit that. Some things, like external scholarships, are manual and require a quick reassessment of the financial aid package to ensure the student is still eligible for everything (if anything, loans need reduced sometimes per regulations). Some things require "professional judgement," like when a student is not yet 24 but claims to be independent due to unusual circumstances. There's more, but it's really just an accumulation of batch work, queues, and audits which require a reasonably good working knowledge of regulations.

911 call taker

Software developer, trained in this from the start. As the years have passed, I've realized just how little coding is happening and how much of the job is waiting, speaking with people, and struggling against the everpresent bureaucracy and processes.

My job title is data engineer, but the organization I work at is small enough that it basically ranges from business intelligence to cloud engineering to data architecture to data science to whatever other thing is even slightly related to data :)

Online communications for an organisation that focuses on local youths. Everything they organise, do, etc... we offer them a platform and also acts as a link between them and the local politicians. Since we're an online platform, it's a very important job (or so it feels) but it's not always easy to explain. So most of the times I just describe it as: "I post a lot of things on social media and our website as well as writing a newsletter, plus I go to a lot of events"

Trying to ditch all meta/big tech apps, tho, but almost impossible with this job. We rely on Instagram and TikTok a lot (our target audience is 16-30)... That's definitely a downside. Looking to expand to fediverse as well, but it's a slow process

Architectural lighting designer. I love it and hate it. Love the complexity and endless learning about science and tech, and how to apply it creatively. Hate the contractors who put forward alternates and mess up the entire design intent only to pocket the difference.

Currently studying to change careers to be a game dev as a generalist for indie games.

I work in travel insurance claims. I'm in a third party administrator for underwriters. When you're on a trip and you get hurt or get sick, you give us a call and we get a claim started for you.

Work in a jail as a co. It's alright but pretty shitty at times. Pays decent and I can live a good life outside of work.

Also developer. Been writing code since around 1985. I wrote a system in the logistics field back in 1999 and I've been expanding it ever since.

I straighten below hairs for Japanese adult entertainment employees. Usually a Philips does the job, however for some folks I've had to whip out the ironing board. It's a tough job.

I'm currently a Site/Processing manager that dabbles in data, got there through beekeeping. I got a summer job working for a beekeeper (over 30 years. ago now) while doing a BSc in organic chemistry and never went back to uni - I was planning to go into lab work/food science in the dairy industry.

Web developer & marketing specialist.

I fell into it in my early twenties, and figured it out along the way.

Software engineer. In the past mostly C++, now it's mostly C#. Lots of databases too.