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Just curious, what do you guys actually do for a living?

Scrolling through comments here, you can tell there's a huge mix of people, some clearly technical, some more creative, some who sound like they've been in the working world for decades, others who feel like students or early in their career.

No particular reason for asking, just genuinely curious what kind of professions make up this community. Feel free to keep it as vague or specific as you're comfortable with.

Drop your profession below, and if you want, one thing about it people usually don't expect.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Very similar but on the corporate AV side. Design, program, and manage conference systems. Everything from small 4 person huddle spaces up to auditoriums and divisible multi purpose rooms.

Been doing it since everything was analog, now I'm basically a network engineer.

Going over the stats today we manage over 600 endpoints world wide, not bad for a three man team.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don't want to give specific details about me personally, so I'll be vague. But just wanted to represent that I'm not tech/IT focused on my work.

It still is a STEM job with 2 postgraduate degree+diploma level qualifications.

[–] cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Product designer in observability field

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 2 months ago

I do the 3Dies

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

I quit work at 35 and am now 61. Preferred to do my own thing, which in retrospect means I'm way to busy

[–] drd@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I work in ecommerce/cpg supply chain as an supply/demand planner, I find it enjoyable. If any of you guys are hiring let me know lol.

[–] Mexigore@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Embedded engineer writing firmware and what such

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

automated machine design. mostly automotive crap.

sure does pay the bills what with the always available overtime, but it also has a shit effect on hobbies because (1) there's only so many hours a week you can spend using a kb/m and at a desk, and more work cuts into gaming, (2) there's only so many hours you can spend staring at a screen, so more work cuts into gaming or other media, and (3) when your day job is designing machines and solving problems, more of that cuts into playing Minecraft or Factorio or something because hey that's like the exact same type of thinking.

there's a reason so many engineers are into climbing, cycling, camping, woodworking etc

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I’ve been in the animation industry for 15yrs. Mostly in the commercial space, so nothing for movies.

[–] PhoolOfATook@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Nice try, FBI.

I'm a professional pedant, but it's only seasonal part time work.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I was a special education teacher in an inner city school district for 11 years. I started in high school my first year and then went to elementary the last 10. It was to weird being 22 teaching 17 year olds.

Anyways, did 3-4 for a couple years, then 5-6 a couple years, finished in k-1. I was diagnosed with kidney failure a few years ago and retired early because I'm on dialysis. I invested very well so I'm good financially, but I miss working with kids, not so much getting fucked over by the school district, but that's a wother thing.

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[–] eldoom@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I'm a CNC laser operator. Basically I cut metal with lasers.

[–] josephc@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Former machine learning researcher. Worked on image search, then language modeling for general search. But then VC started throwing money at it and the landscape just kinda' changed. The research was still great in academia, but a bunch of dipshits took a useful technology and decided to use it as a way to funnel money from everyone into their own coffers.

Now I build stuff to monitor power lines and prevent wildfires.

One thing people don't usually expect: machine learning isn't magic. The computer doesn't just "do the work for you". There's a lot of planning, theory, and experimentation around seeing if and why something works.

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[–] dragonlover@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Voip engineer / telecom

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