Lawyer, specifically a civil litigator.
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I'm in education. It's pretty alright. The kids aren't alright, though.
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.
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.
TCOB, takin' care of business.
Used to be cop.
Went into a completely unrelated line of work purely because it was remote, promoted from there.
We did it, guys! We finally found the good cop!
Statistically speaking it's likely that I was somewhere close to a 5/10. If you consider that "good" so be it, but I reject the notion that just because a(n ex-)cop goes on Lemmy they must be or have been good.
I've tried to address the issue across many spaces, but there's never anywhere near a consensus on what makes a cop a Good Cop, so I don't think I or anyone else will be able to truthfully answer that question about me (or any other cop) in a way that suits most/all people.
My joke was that there are no good cops, because even the “good” ones still uphold the blue wall of silence and passively enforce systematic oppression. The entire system is designed so that cops who refuse to fall in line are quickly weeded out. Even if the “good” cops don’t directly oppress people and abuse their authority, they keep quiet about their coworkers who do. There is no “good cop changing the system from within” because the system is designed from the ground up to expel anyone who tries. So the only way to be a good cop is to stop being one.
I don't strongly disagree with that notion, but I strongly believe that spreading the idea leads to making cops worse as a whole.
Say your message reached the eyes/ears of every single (prospective) cop, whether they (think they) (will) contribute to that problem or not.
The ones that want to contribute to that don't care what you have to say about it; they might even get a kick out of it.
The ones that don't want to will either be motivated towards mental gymnastics into ignoring criticism of law enforcement ("they obviously have no idea what they're talking about" and other similar cop-outs) or look for a way out of that line of work. In other words, making people think "it doesn't matter what I do, I will still be considered evil," will push a lot of otherwise good people to either ignore criticism, deviate to the worse, or get out entirely. The former two are basically the logic behind Labeling Theory. Do you know who invites them with open arms? Bad Cops.
So by subtracting (potential) Good Cops and not affecting (or bolstering) Bad Cops, you make the ratio worse.
Telephony engineer
I'm a software engineer and it feels gross to say for some reason
I'm just a poser though, because I have no thigh-highs
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.
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 do the 3Dies
sw engineer since abt 1997 and firefighter since abt 2005.
Systems Engineer/Programmer. Been doing it for ~26 years.
Professional wanker.
Nice try, FBI
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.
I quit work at 35 and am now 61. Preferred to do my own thing, which in retrospect means I'm way to busy
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 3 postgraduate degree+diploma level qualifications.
Youth worker
Software developer
I thought there'd be more of us...
Blame AI and terrible job postings. Do you know how many software dev jobs I've been rejected by? I'm applying out of college and literally no one has even faked interest. Sadly its been a few years and I've had to adapt or sink. As someone who can't, please fix AI code slop.
you need more experience. how do you get that experience? well, you get a job and earn that experience. how do you get a job? with experience!
I figure when I get fired I'm just going to sell my home with a 2000% markup from my purchased price and go buy a cabin in the woods to live off grid.
Product designer in observability field
Voip engineer / telecom
I'm herding electrons. AKA I design chips for isosychronous low-latency networks.
Mechanical Engineer. 14 years in automotive interiors. I design tooling for instrument panel toppers, door uppers, arm rests, etc.
Primarily, the type of tooling I specialize in is known as edge wrapping or edge folding. Basically, you have the plastic "substrate" and the leather or vinyl "skin" that is either vacuum formed or press laminated to it. Extra material is left around the edges, and that is heated, wrapped, and glued around the back of the part with a number of metal fingers. I do the wrapping tooling, as well as the lamination tooling.
The most complicated tool I ever designed was for a large, flat component behind the back seat of a car, by the rear window. Let me walk you through the sequence for it.
- Operator loads plastic substrate in tool upper
- Operator loads flat skin pattern in the lower on skin pins, and a clamp in the rear
- The infrared heating shuttle moves in and the upper closes to the heating position, where the skin and substrate are blasted with tens of thousands of watts of IR heat to activate the glue
- The IR shuttle retracts, and the tool fully closes to the lamination position, and the skin pins all retract. In the case of this tool, it had (I think) 0.25mm of compression a-side of the part.
- Seven slides extend to laminated areas that were either undercut in tool draw, or protruded in a way that prohibited skin loading.
- Three 200C hot air heaters extend down from the upper to heat the back edge of the part, and around the two speaker openings.
- Once those retracts, 25 edgefolding pieces wipe the skin around the back, and up through the speaker openings (that's the coolest part)
- The edgefolders retract in the reverse sequence of which they extended
- The slides retracts
- The tool opens, and the skin pins extend
- the Operator can now step in the light curtain to remove the part, then return with the new substrate and skin.
So far, I would say it is the pinnacle of my career. But car parts are getting more complicated all the time. My design focuses lately have been focused on simplicity over that level of complexity. Where can we use a guided cylinder where we used to use linear rails? Can this detail be made in multiple pieces to reduce waste material? What components can be 3D printed? It's great fun, really. I do love my job.
Opened a consulting business a couple years ago, a solo thing. Before that 15 years in energy tech product.
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