What do you all do for a living and for how long?

[trickybus]

Right now, I'm an assembly line trainer at a truck manufacturing plant. I show new operators how to build engines and axles. If the factory is short on people, I build as well. It pays well and I enjoy working with my hands but I don't want it to be my forever job. I tend to get antsy if I stay in one place for too long, so I'd like to transition to a career that can travel with me.

 

[Deleted member 612095]

I am a train driver on the railway. I think it's been 10 years now.

 

[Yousef]

I live.

 

[Carlnshake]

I live.

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

I live.

In my heart

 

[99nereids]

odd jobs mostly. gas station attendant, grocery clerk, girlfriend for hire, nanny, president of the united states, petting zoo animal, you name it

 

[χKai]

Professional good samaritan..

 

[mrmoe273]

i work at a retirement home as a dietary aid, so far im around 3 years strong

I hope in the future to go into robotics through college

 

[Theriise]

Child care! Child care!
Someone's gotta herd the children and juggle the babies. Might as well be me. Also knowing things like minecraft and pokemon and sonic makes it easy for children to talk to me about their interests. I taught one little girl who was totally in love with sonic. And another little boy refused to take off his shadow the hedgehog hat today, he then attempted to make a wooden pick axe on a crafting table he made of wood blocks. Sometimes they surprise you though, just casually saying hello to a child and his sister once ended up in a 4 year olds entire retelling of the war of the world with his two year old sister boasting about the alien blood.

 

[Pearly]

Embedded systems engineer for the past 20 years. I work on both the firmware and electronics engineering side. I also do backend software dev when theres no embedded work to pick up.

How well both backend software and embedded systems overlap in terms of skill sets allows the job market to be a lot bigger so long as you have experience in both, I quite enjoyed working as a digital design intern, the team was delightful, no actual experience working as a backend software dev just yet though.

I currently on a summer break before the final year of a level 8 university software engineering degree, worked in an MNC as a digital design engineer intern for 7 months during 6th semester, worked in a warehouse fulfilling orders for pharmacys, that stuff was exhausting.

 

[bjork]

I've worked overnight in grocery for years and years. Currently a scan coordinator, doing pricing and related things to that, but I just tell people I play with stickers for a living. Previously I worked in a toy department at a Wal-Mart, and I managed an anime shop for a few years. But I'm getting ready to leave here in about six weeks and I'm not sure what I'm doing after that, other than sorting out my late father's affairs. After that, who knows.

 

[Yousef]

In my heart

You too.

 

[moonbits]

Software development, front-end for mobile.. 10 years.

 

[ciro64]

I guess you could say I'm trying to start a software developer career.

And failing at it lol.

This shit is only engaging as a hobby if I'm gonna be honest.

 

[Kamako]

And failing at it lol.

This shit is only engaging as a hobby if I'm gonna be honest.

Keep at it! The sooner you get through the boring/tedious stuff, the sooner you can get back to the part of it you love.

 

[ciro64]

Keep at it! The sooner you get through the boring/tedious stuff, the sooner you can get back to the part of it you love.

Gotta figure out other aspects of my life first, as late into the game as I am. Otherwise I'm just gonna fall over again.

 

[trickybus]

And failing at it lol.

This shit is only engaging as a hobby if I'm gonna be honest.

That seems to be the case for a lot of normally fun hobbies, unfortunately. Adding stress, deadlines, and unwanted input has a way of ruining the experience.

 

[Nidoking's icon Nidoking Nidoking]

Leave it at retail. I've been doing it too long.

 

[Burzuru]

I've worked in retail for way too long. i don't understand how so many people can't figure out how card readers or self checkouts work. or read.

 

[diet_orange]

I work as Retail Associate for Goodwill. Been with the company for 8 years (it'll be 9 in the fall) and it doesn't seem like that long. What's kept me there are the people I work with and the mission of helping to better the community. You also get to see tons of neat and interesting stuff come in, so there's that

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I've worked in retail for way too long. i don't understand how so many people can't figure out how card readers or self checkouts work. or read.

Oh, I can relate all too much! People think I'm still taking their money (twice even) even if the card doesn't go through. They also have to sign on the touch screen after the card goes through and 90% don't understand it or how it works, especially when I tell them that it's not checking for a signature, and just needs something drawn/scribbled on it

Also the amount of people who pay with hundred dollar bills is staggering, especially on the weekends when we have our "color tag sale"

 

[Rebecca]

For the past 21 years I have been working as a frontend developer and designer.
I've created some interesting apps, like an offline-first updateable content catalog Javascript app encapsulated to work as a windows app and designed the interface for an internal documentation search engine.
Now I am a design systems expert (I build the bits others use to build their apps without needing to worry about design or complex CSS).

 

[YuriSukiSan]

Upper mid level code monkey! Most of the time I'm fixing what gets outsourced when it's finally sent back instead of writing it with a team, the company I work for would rather waste money on trying to save money!

 

[PhrawzT]

Program Planner for almost 20 years. I have worked for construction, engineering and manufacturing companies and it's my job to take all the data and figure out how much work has been completed and how long it will take for the massive jobs to complete based on the progress made so far. I have worked at a nuclear power plant, a coal power plant, a company that designs equipment for power plants, and in a factory that builds parts for helicopters.