Ask Lemmy

Grumpy sound guy.

Engineering

I work at a shipyard servicing and rebuilding engines.

Healthcare

Maintenance, transitioning into automation tech.

Quality manager in a plastic extrusion manufacturing facility.

I sell gold and silver over the phone.

Video game qa

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

I was/am a compositor/vfx artist for film and tv, but the industry has imploded over the last year so it's been a few months.

Realtor and brand and marketing consultant for our brokerage. Not the astronaut or veterinarian I pictured myself as a kid. But still, I’m happy :)

I'm a product development engineer in the biomedical industry. Although from what I read it seems I should have taken a few extra courses in school and gone into software engineering. However I do still enjoy my work (not more than not having to work, but still.)

UPS delivery

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

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

My primary job is IT, but I am starting a farm and worked on one as a teenager.

Watch the mentally disabled. Most of the time they just need a friend so I get paid to hangout with em. Just gotta make sure they get their meds and food on time. Hell a few weeks ago I got paid to go to a baseball game cause he wanted to go.

Solar installer, I put solar panels on things and get them working. Recently my company got a reputation for competence with floating solar arrays so we've been traveling to build and fix them all over the country. Electricity and water is a fun combo.

Emergency humanitarian response program planning/monitoring/evaluation with a UN agency.

I'm a psychiatric RN out in the community. I work with people who have thought disorders like schizophrenia at their homes or under the bridges.

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 manage a service engineering team for semiconductor equipment.

HSE consultant: I teach people how not to be in the next Darwin Awards

Budget analyst

Transportation engineer (in training) working for an engineering consulting firm! Primarily helping design active transportation infrastructure and road reconstructions.

I'm a hydraulic fitter. I repair and maintain hydraulic systems, primarily on earthmoving equipment.

Safety adviser currently in airport safety

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.