Ask Lemmy

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

Commercial wide format print shop owner

Quality tech in manufacturing

Budget analyst

I don't really have a title, but I work in a factory.

Go to college kids. Fuck the expense, you still get many more opportunities that a factory scumbag like myself does not. If you don't know what you want or what you're capable of, who cares. Go anyway for anything and you'll meet people who you can network with and you'll be exposed to classes and topics you might not ever have considered. I'm the only scumbag failure in my friend group who didn't go to college and I'm the only loser working in a literal sweat shop while they all work from home with very nice salaries and wives/husbands they met at college. I'm still single.

Go to college.

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

I'm a truck driver, well nowadays more in the office than behind the wheel but I do still pull loads here and there.

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.

I approve people applying for disability benefits.

CNC machining. It's manufacturing; I work with titanium, inconel, and on occasion steel.

Category Buyer for a large manufacturing company.

Not unusual but accountant in a private company. Accounting, like IT, is great because you can work at just about any company. Though to be fair I do some IT like most accountants, there is overlap since so much of the systems work is accounting systems, I'm sure the IT guys feel they are doing some accounting.

I’m in IT now, but before that, I worked in construction. I operated tunnel boring machines that dug tunnels for underground metros. It was super interesting work, and I’m glad I did it, but it was incredibly tough.

Clinical research, one little dent in our knowledge of medicine at a time.

High school teacher (Latin)

For the US:

https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-sector.htm

Physician associate in mental health

Does it count if i used to work in IT?

I still work in IT but I used to too.

In my youth I worked at a 24 hour gas station/restaurant for 2 weeks. It was robbed twice (not while i was there) and someone hit and ran and smashed up my car all in 2 weeks. But i did get unlimited coffee, pop and donuts (after 6pm) so overall I'd give it a 3/5.

Honey dipper, lighthouse keeper, lamp lighter, encyclopedia deliveries, phrenologist, and whaler.