Ask Lemmy

Software developer

I thought there'd be more of us...

I’ve been a dispensing optician, IT support and consultant, project manager, international NGO director, now I work as regional lead for a men’s charity and have qualified as a psychotherapist. So that’s happening now.

Railway signal maintainer.

I take care of crossing warning devices, switch machines, signals, track circuits, and wayside hazard detectors.

Freelance artist. Make 2D and 3D digital art.

Commissions are mostly furry. Because of course. But I'm working on a sci-fi universe, and I practice a lot of 3D modelling with Bionicles.

Electrical engineer. I primarily do work on water treatment plants, but because my company has few electrical engineers, I work on a variety of jobs

Youth worker

Mechanical engineer working on the operations side of a power plant.

Legal analyst

Maintenance engineer for a major window manufacturer.

Previously I worked in Healthcare in various different roles.

Electrical engineer, I'm more on the prototype side of circuit board design

I'm herding electrons. AKA I design chips for isosychronous low-latency networks.

I'm a network engineer for a Swiss ISP that serves only a specific niche of institutional customers, not home users.

I think there are still many who don't know this: All important internet links go over fiber optic cables with lasers and photo diodes at the ends, and in the backbone everything under 100 Gigabits per second is slow.

The speeds you are used to as a consumer are mostly limited by the last mile to your house, be it wireless, DSL on telephone wires, or DOCSIS on coax cable. Everywhere else 10 Gigabits per second is like the minimum. Our current generation backbone routers can't even do 1 Gigabits per second interfaces anymore.

I'm a credit card number distributor.

I'm a parish priest in the Episcopal Church.

Lots of people assume priests only work on Sundays. They also assume that we don't have much of a life outside of the priesthood. I get that sometimes when I'm getting dressed after surfing ("you guys can surf?"). I also have a wife and four kids, which also surprises people (my wife and I sometimes meet up for lunch dates and I always get amused when I see someone who thinks they've happened upon some scandal in the making).

I am a master of the custodial arts.

No profession. Didn't choose any !!

Full stack developer. Our stack is soggy cheese.

Junior researcher in food microbiology, with a background in general food technology.

Figuring out cheaper ways to enrich foods using microbial producers.

In the middle running away from tech (10+ years) to join the circus. That's not hyperbole

Systems Engineer/Programmer. Been doing it for ~26 years.

On this account, I’m a live audio technician. I run sound for events like concerts, musicals, dance shows, etc…

I also do a little bit of networking design, installation, and management on the side. Mostly because lots of devices these days are using audio-over-IP and video-over-IP systems like Dante. Nothing super fancy, but I can at least configure VLANs on a managed switch, and have gone through the SysAdmin “locked myself out of the firewall” rite of passage.

I was self-employed in media for around 10years. Mostly Album covers, posters and some clothing. Mostly in reggae. Than, with 37y, I did an "apprenticeship" for 3 years and now I'm a webdev. Mostly typo3 and a bit wordpress.

Lumberjack in Antarctica, it's cold and pointless but nobody's got to do it

Product designer in observability field

Software Engineer

Opened a consulting business a couple years ago, a solo thing. Before that 15 years in energy tech product.

Or you could, like, not help our future doxxers find us and fuck up our shit 🙄

I do the 3Dies