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I do CAD work for the semiconductor industry, mostly making sure that our schematics and layouts work properly and don't have any design errors. Before that I did semiconductor reliability work, mostly ESD testing and automotive qualifications, and before that I worked in a grocery store praying for death every day for the six years I was there.mkvltra posted:I'm a CAD jockey / subject matter expert. I design electro-mechanical poo poo and create documentation and technical data packages for engineering projects. I wouldn't call myself a true blue engineer but engineering is part of my job. Another big part of my job is reviewing the work of actual, professional hardware engineers and telling them why their designs and CAD assemblies suck. I currently work from home for a robotics company and it owns. Doing any work with robotics sounds like it kicks rear end, robots are cool Do you work more on the mechanical side, or are you more electrical?
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I'm a controls "engineer". I design, program, and commission PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers), I also go and troubleshoot PLCs that aren't acting right. I usually spend most of my time in my office, waiting for one of the account managers to find a project for me to work on. I do 96% of my work for/at local steel mills, but I've also worked at food packaging, print presses, and chemical plants. Right now I've been contracted out to a Shell plant to take over for a co-worker who's looking to retire this year. I am going to be their "controls" guy. Only difference is that they have a DCS (Distributed Control System). PLCs are "usually" just on a machine or running one part of a bigger process. A DCS is the plant, everything is connected to it and it provides IO and SCADA.
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Jan 17, 2022 18:21
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Abongination posted:I make detailed and extremely accurate 3D models of stuff using drones, 3D laser scanners and photogrammetry. It's pretty cool and fairly newish tech that's advancing quickly. I knew someone who did this out in Roanoke, TX. Same thing maybe? He had a degree in geology and flew drones to map terrain for oil companies if I understood him right. Sounds cool.
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Jan 17, 2022 18:24
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Patent examining. For now, anyway. Until they finally fire me for my heretical stance of "good is better than fast when you're dicking about with billion dollar industries full of psychotically litigious multinationals".
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Jan 17, 2022 18:25
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(on verge of tears) im a project manager
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Jan 17, 2022 18:28
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There was a virtual school around here that allegedly culled all the info from deceased children aged 6-18 in the whole state and enrolled them. They got millions in funding. The guy responsible cashed out and disappeared... they never found him from my understanding. Allegedly, of course.
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Jan 17, 2022 18:29
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ChunTheUnavoidable posted:(on verge of tears) im a project manager Sorry, I was asked to become one. I said no.
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Jan 17, 2022 18:32
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Fiber optic and copper cable splicing. I jump into manholes and use a bucket truck to get access to it, then use a $10k machine to fuse tiny strands of glass together. Usually it works.
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ChunTheUnavoidable posted:(on verge of tears) im a project manager fuckj you
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ChunTheUnavoidable posted:(on verge of tears) im a project manager you the guy constantly calling me into meetings? JUST LET ME WORK
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neato burrito posted:Fiber optic and copper cable splicing. I jump into manholes and use a bucket truck to get access to it, then use a $10k machine to fuse tiny strands of glass together. Usually it works. Fiber optic welding machines are so loving cool
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Jan 17, 2022 18:41
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:you the guy constantly calling me into meetings? JUST LET ME WORK every time you complain i schedule a new weekly meeting to “touch base” where I say “uh… um…” into the mic for 40 minutes
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Jan 17, 2022 18:43
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Nice thing about the steel mills is project managers don't get to do that 2 hour meeting BS cause everyone else actually has to keep the plant running and has no patience for project managers like that. So there would be like a 1 hour meeting once a week. It's very nice.
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Jan 17, 2022 18:47
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Empty Sandwich posted:I have an internet friend doing field science in AK. it's variously cool and intimidating to see his posts, not least because he wears a specialized holster with a cocked .45 for grizzlies. I did field work for my bachelors thesis and it gave me great experiences but I was also wet and cold for a great deal of the time.
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Im also a teacher. High school English. I also coach high school sports year round. I made a similar thread not too long ago because I work close to 60 hours a week and it sucks. I used to be good with it, but now Im recently married and recently bought a house and got some dogs and all I want to do is be in my house with my wife and my dogs. I'm going to quit coaching wrestling next year because its miserable and all my athletes are the softest kids you've ever seen. But I dont work in July or August and do a lot of vegetable gardening and cooking. I also read like 100-200 pages a day. Thank God for pot gummies or i'd have had a nervous breakdown a long time ago.
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dervinosdoom posted:Nice thing about the steel mills is project managers don't get to do that 2 hour meeting BS cause everyone else actually has to keep the plant running and has no patience for project managers like that. So there would be like a 1 hour meeting once a week. It's very nice. i have so much loving work to do right now i've told the PMs to not talk to me or invite me to meetings unless they absolutely need to see CAD or something. which they always say they do because the robots and automation i design are all custom. no i will not give you a timeline because you are constantly interrupting it!!!!!!
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Jan 17, 2022 18:56
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i manage events big and small and sometimes man the soundboard and sometimes assist stage manager and sometimes just chillen but gettin paid
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That’s pretty sick that you work at the robot store tbh
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Jan 17, 2022 18:59
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I fix European cars. No I'm not trying to make money on the side(you can't afford me)
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Jan 17, 2022 19:01
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I'm a disability carer for vulnerable young adults, none of whom can wear a mask. Now bubbling and lockdown is over I'm at the mercy of their carers/parents to not be idiots. tl:dr I catch covid for a living OP
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Jan 17, 2022 19:03
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I have daily panic attacks about my cat who is recovering from hip surgery and I draw for like 5-10 mins a day when I'm not anxiously staring at a wall
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Jan 17, 2022 19:03
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I'm responsible for a crumbling Active Directory infrastructure.
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It's fun.
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I make income by drawing commissions of character portraits of peoples characters from a quarter-century-old MMO videogame, like this
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Thank God for pot gummies or i'd have had a nervous breakdown a long time ago. Teachers should be supplied with weed in the annual budget. Give them vouchers to dispensaries or a monthly stipend. gently caress, get a converted bookmobile to come around monthly for the faculty for a county provided ounce/equivalent edibles. If they're not going to pay you poo poo, at least cut you some sort of benefit for working so drat hard. Only teachers I've known to cop to weed are always english teachers. Always. Others smoke, but english teachers are always the first to admit it. Math teachers seem way less likely, or the hardest to crack like they have to be caught joint in hand.
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has anyone said your mom yet?
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My HS math teacher had long hair and regularly showed up late to our 1pm class because he'd fall asleep on the staffroom couch You're telling me that man never touched a weed?
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I help design and produce Covid test kits for the world. Edit- Also biopsy and other medical equipment. But for now i work with dozens of companies to produce Covid testing kits. Katamari Democracy fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jan 17, 2022 |
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ante posted:My HS math teacher had long hair and regularly showed up late to our 1pm class because he'd fall asleep on the staffroom couch Nah. Just that math teachers on a whole are less likely to partake or admit to it. He'd be an outlier. Every math teacher I've had with exception of one was so tightly wound that weed just doesn't seem to exist in their ecosystem. And my exwife is a math teacher. About half her family is teachers or work in the schools in some way. The math teachers were way bigger fans of cheap wine than weed.
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i must compose posted:Hey I got a hobby for you buddy; read the op which clearly states that I have no free time. stretch your rear end in a top hat and post pics here as a hobby
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DrSunshine posted:I'm a corporate librarian in the tech field I'm a vet tech. I poke animals with needles, take x-rays, assist in surgeries, clean teeth, etc. I used to do this quite a lot of hours every week because Illinois is expensive and vet techs are poor, but then we moved to NC where things are more affordable and for some inscrutable reason techs make more (not the case for most other jobs here), so now I do it less hours a week, and spend more time at the beach. If you like animals and hate money, have I got the career for you. My general happiness level is significantly higher than when I was in a better paying industry though.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Nah. Just that math teachers on a whole are less likely to partake or admit to it. He'd be an outlier. The math teachers I work with are dour, humorless, and extremely uptight with one or two exceptions. Basically, what you thought your math teachers were like in school wasn't just you being a kid - its how they actually are.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:i have so much loving work to do right now i've told the PMs to not talk to me or invite me to meetings unless they absolutely need to see CAD or something. which they always say they do because the robots and automation i design are all custom. no i will not give you a timeline because you are constantly interrupting it!!!!!! Thursdays at the company I work for are "meeting free". No one is allowed to host or attend meetings from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Great policy IMO
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ChunTheUnavoidable posted:That’s pretty sick that you work at the robot store tbh it's fun when i'm not so busy. right now i'm stressed about a lot of things tho
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mkvltra posted:I'm a CAD jockey / subject matter expert. I design electro-mechanical poo poo and create documentation and technical data packages for engineering projects. I wouldn't call myself a true blue engineer but engineering is part of my job. Another big part of my job is reviewing the work of actual, professional hardware engineers and telling them why their designs and CAD assemblies suck. I currently work from home for a robotics company and it owns. oh hey robot designer buddy
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I coulda sworn I saw my old math teacher at O'hare International ten years ago and while I was staring at her, trying to figure out who she was, I realized it was Candy, the intervener from A&E reality series Intervention
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I'm the best teacher, an ESL teacher. And I get to drive between three different schools everyday, it rocks. The only downside is the planning because I have like 15 different classes which all need different lesson plans and most of them are five days a week so about 70 ish different lessons every week. But no extracurricular bullshit for me, no thank you; I co-led cub scouts one year and it was cool but that was when I was only at one school with far fewer students and didn't have kids of my own. Also don't make jack in terms of money but the job is fun, kids are cool. Thank god my wife can support us.
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:The math teachers I work with are dour, humorless, and extremely uptight with one or two exceptions. Basically, what you thought your math teachers were like in school wasn't just you being a kid - its how they actually are. My Geometry teacher in 10th grade was straight up abusive. Whenever she saw me doodling she would grab whatever I was drawing on from me and throw it away. If it was a worksheet, she would throw the one I was drawing on away and give me a blank one. I took a year of "Math for Liberal Arts" in college and both semesters were taught by one of the coolest loving teachers ever. For word problems / examples of his own creation he would almost exclusively invent situations involving Hakeem Olajuwon, the greatest and most underrated athlete of all time (according to him). When it came to reading word problems out of one of our textbooks, he would do his best to keep us entertained and focused as he taught, for example: "Jessica and Kelly are meeting up at their favorite restaurant for brunch. Kelly orders a glass of orange juice for $2.50 and Jessica orders a glass of milk for $1.50, yada yada yada, how much did each of their meals cost?" "Nah- this needs to be more realistic. How about Kelly smoked a blunt on the way to the restaurant and Jessica is going to drink at least three mimosas before 11:00 AM. How faded are they by the time they finish brunch?" mkvltra fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Jan 17, 2022 |
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My BiL is a maths teacher. He has a history degree and much more of a history teacher aesthetic.
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Paper mache erotica
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